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I think this is a great design, along the lines of Alvo Altar ! Love the easy assembly and breakdown, it someday could replace the awful folding tables used at family get togethers. At Thanksgiving one of these would make people want to sit at the "kids table" instead of the grand dining rooom table ! A fun design that could start of products..kids size table and chairs, custom finishes, etc. Love your simplicity..great job and good luck. 5 star product

Simple, clean lines make for a very cool product. Good Luck!

i really like the idea of easy assembly and takedown, it always makes me nervous drilling and undrilling holes in furniture. the price isn't too bad either. the only thing i would want different is the top, i don't like the four little lines but that could be covered up with a table cloth or other objects. really neat idea

Great design. Even more fabulous would be a way for the pieces to lock together in a flat configuration, so it can store easily when not in use.

Very nice indeed! Sort of Jean Prouve meets Ikea.
The lines of this table are very sharp.

I love this! It's attractive, reasonably priced and the design is quite clever. I wish more furniture could be this easily assembled and disassembled--it would make moving SO much easier.

Eh, looks kinda like another version of the same flat-pack table that every design student has to create at least once in their schooling.

It's cute, but won't hold up to the rigors of daily use. Tabbed plywood joinery will eventually fail and you'll just have to replace the entire table.

Despite the fact that every design student has made one of these, there's a reason Ikea doesn't have a table like this in their line up: It wouldn't meet their incredibly lax, "disposable" standards for durability/function.

No glue? How's the plywood held together? Magic?

Great idea .. sharp lines ..

I think we're going to be seeing more and more furniture like this with rapid manufacturing becoming more and more accessible and affordable (Take ponoko.com and shapeways.com for example) and more and more people being able to use simple vector and 3D CAD software like Sketchup.
I like how simple this table is. However, I would have liked to see them push the idea of all of the parts being cut out of a single piece of plywood a little further and try to use all of the negative space as well so that there is virtually no waste. It might have been cool to see if there is a way to squeeze a stool or two out of the remaining wood.
Also, I'm not crazy about the arches. But that's just me. I likes me some clean straight lines :).

I like the fact that this is something different. Many of the contestants come up with beautiful stuff, but a bed that's a bed and wallpaper that's wallpaper isn't exactly innovative.
This table is more than a table. Therefore: three stars.

Nice, Clean and Simple!

I love the clean lines and easy assembly. I disagree with the comment of it not being able to hold up for everyday use. If it is designed correctly it should work just fine, great job, five stars!

@ pandix : "If it is designed correctly it should work just fine"

As an engineer, I can tell you just by looking at it that it's not. There won't be enough lateral stability from the joints they are using. Even if it is 1" ply, the top only connects to the apron with the tabs (visible on the surface of the table). At 1" thick, there isn't enough surface area to prevent racking.

There is no secure connection to the top. If someone leans on the edge of the table, it's likely to flip up, or at the very least, dislocate the top tabs. It may feel secure at first, but as it gets used, the "tight tolerances" will wear and the whole table will be a wobbly mess.

Also, the unsupported ply legs aren't reinforced in any way, standing at an angle like that will bow over time (relatively quickly...a couple of weeks).

It's a good place to start a design, but it still needs a lot of work.

engineers are "tools"

stylish easy to assemble great and innovative design = perfect table. I really like it... Three stars!!!

I love the idea, and I love the controversy, or rather the back-and-forth its creating.

Even if it isn't going to seat six for dinner, I would love a mini version for taking to the part with me, or for use if I'm seated on a zabuton, etc etc. Glad this was submitted.

Great Job guys!!!! I love it!

Good luck! I know you will do great!! :)

Love it! Clean design at a great price. And as someone who has lost count of how many times she has moved, the fact that it can put put together so easily makes it a winner in my book :)

I question the longevity of that leg joint. Because it's at an angle, the leg is loaded in bending. That's good in that the static load takes up the slack inherent in that slot joint, but I can see this thing opening up and getting very wobbly in time.

And please don't use Chinese (or Russian) birch ply. Saving $10 on a 5x5 sheet isn't worth clearcutting all of northern China and Siberia, which is what they are doing.

nice.