Okay, we love this End Nail Table. We know it fits into all the categories that people hate like super expensive ($11,800), not from a west coast designer (Tord Boontje, UK), and shown on a NYC based stores website (Moss), but what about taking a chill-pill and thinking about this for inspiration?
We are not saying you should rip off the design by getting a simple wood table from Ikea and drawing out a pattern and then using thin, wide head nails to create your pattern. Nor are we saying that you should top off your table with a subtle spray of yellow paint. We are just saying, isnt this table really cool?
Yup. This is an easy DIY'r. e a s y .
Cost aside, its a nice table.
i think some magazine already showed how to do this.. not sure if it was readymade, or domino, or budget living... but i swear i read somewhere recently the DIY version of this...
oh to be.. "inspired by"...
It was Budget Living's November issue, though they painted the whole table. Here's the link to the instructions on their website: http://blmag.com/issue200520/making_it.php
Murray Moss and Tord Boontje should be shot on sight.
Why do people continue to look at design as a lesser form of artistic expression that is somehow beyond the realm of authorship? We throw students out of school for plagarism and yet it's somehow acceptable for widely read magazines to publish articles on how to knock off someone's design? Would it somehow be okay to print an article on how to recreate a Francis Bacon painting and pass it off as your own idea? Or how about suggesting a reader comb through a Murakami book for it's most unique moments of brilliance and throw together a short story based on those ideas? Just because an object is beyond someone's financial means, does not make it part of an elitist culture, nor should the store representing such an object be continuously derided. Afterall, anyone is welcome to wander into Moss free of charge and view design that is making history in a setting that rivals that of the MOMA design department. All of these DIY articles that highlight significant work from the remarkable talents of today (regardless of one's personal opinion of such designers) only serve to weaken our collective imagination and further the "I could have made that" mentality which so defines our country's lack of respect for the creative industry.