I completely fell in love with this little table's unique colors and shapes when I saw it featured in a couple of different European design magazines. But after searching in vain for any indication of where to find one, I gave it up as one of those great products that's not available stateside.
Several months later: design blogs to the rescue. I spotted the elusive table on Madame Hervé. Imagine my delight when I discovered that not only is the table available commercially, but it is re-configurable - the wooden beads that make up the base can be stacked on in different combinations, like a child's toy. So if you get tired of a particular configuration, you can change it up, and even adjust the table height.
The shuffle table is being produced by the Danish company &tradition and is available at lumens.com for $740. It's a teensy bit out of my price range, but I'm still seriously tempted to blow my savings on one of these. Imagine the possibilities!
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Shuffle table on Madame Hervé
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I wonder if you could DIY this...
It reminds me of Memphis stuff from the 80s.
Cute but that "bead" on the top would annoy me.
This seems like a very good candidate for a DIY.
Love the colors and shapes, it's very fun, but no way would I spend that much for a side table. Is anyone up to the challenge to figure out an affordable way to DIY it?
LOVE IT!!!!
I wonder if it will become 'wonky' after a while; unstable on it's feet.
Cute idea though...be fun to experiment with textures, colors and possibly carving if you are an artist that can work with wood.
I would pick one configuration I liked and never change it -- with those elements it would always look too similar to bother doing that, and anyhow, I would want the balance of forms to appeal to me (the sequence of large and small units would matter.)
So why get something that costs more because it's re-configurable?
I think it seems very possible to DIY something comparable. (Getting the perfect high-gloss painted surface on wood I'd have trouble with, and some of those specific shapes might be hard to find commercially, but a woodworker could make them with a lathe.)
One thing a person could try is making a solid base (wooden circle from a craft or unfinished furnishings store, maybe) and a fairly thick dowel rod, drill a hole, use wood glue, etc. Then look for flea market/thrift store wooden bowels and boxes, possibly even heavy plastic vases or flower pots that might be drilled and stacked. I'd get a pre-cut tabletop (lumber yard??) and find one fairly flat dish (a thick wooden plate or a wide shallow bowl, maybe) to drill and securely glue and screw to the bottom of the tabletop. Then you could put the dowel into the attached section and not penetrate the top of the table, just drill halfway through and glue in place, so your tabletop remains smooth.
Just brainstorming...
@mrsstack: so don't put the small nob on top :) That's the brilliance of the table. It's based on a childs stackable toys and can be assembled just like you feel like it which means that the table top can be placed at the perfect height for your tea sipping pleasure.
@ploefff
I think she's referring to how the center sticks out the top (though it isn't white, the wood color is washed out in the last picture) in all of these picture, presumably because the height of all the beads stacked up is less than the height of the pole... by design, since otherwise the top might fall off....
Very cute! I don't think I'd pay that much, but what a great piece.