Fashion Folks will know the designer Ann Demeulemeester has a unique, experimental and minimalist style. This style transitions to furniture when Demeulemeester designed a table for the Carte Blanche collection for Belgian furniture company, Bulo...“I wanted to return to the essential shape of a table, like a child would draw it…”
Available in four sizes at Moss. Via T Style.
Described as having the "virginity of an unpainted canvas," we think it looks like a table wrapped in canvas and tacked with upholstery tacks or small nails with large heads. When Moss lists these special instructions: The table can be repainted to retain its pure white color, we want to wrap our IKEA table in white canvas and paint it bright white (and save about $2500). What do you think about DIY Demeulemeester?
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view Maxwell's profile
See, this is where design leaves me flat. You could easily wrap your Ikea table in canvas, or just paint it with a texture and save $2,500. Or, you can make it for yourself.
Basic woodworking skills from high school could produce this table. Why would anyone pay a hefty price for this type of product unless they were just interested in having the name behind the product? It isn't high design.
I'm a gal with art skills, ok, and I make things. But it isn't difficult. Just a bit of "elbow grease" and voila! You have something nice. But I grew up with a stepfather who was a carpenter and if he knew people were getting in excess of $200 for this table, he'd be rolling around in his comfy crypt, "dieing" to get out and smack someone.
view JacksonMarie's profile
Yeah but JacksonMarie, not all of us have the space necessary to build this. My husband and I would really like to build an end table we need for our living room. We know exactly what we want and it's simple enough that we could do it ourselves but we don't have the room to do it in our place and we don't have ANY woodworking tools at all. Not that I would run out and pay even $200 for it just because of all that, but sometimes it's not just a simple matter of elbow grease...
view bluestar's profile
I think it's very much like a Parsons table, which was also born out of the urge to pare a table down to its essence, but this is subtly lighter in form. It's very pretty.
I also think that just because something may be relatively simple to execute doesn't mean it's not "high design."
view Anne in Chicago's profile
It does look like an IKEA table.
The $99 BJÖRKUDDEN, to be exact. I'd cover it in canvas and tacks to replicate the look rather than buying the Moss model, which seems to be for people with more money than sense.
view Valerie's profile
I'm all for concept, and high design (and DEFINITELY agree, A i C) that relative simplicity does not automatically rule out the concept of design, or mean something should be WalMart-priced.
That said, sorry, but this is sooo "the Emperor's New Table."
And it's either been around for awhile, or I've seen something suspiciously similar a few years back... part of the advertised benefit was that you can just re-gesso it for a fresh look when necessary.
view patrick (the other one)'s profile
This was designed in 2003...
view Aaron's profile
Leyre: No one has to build this. I might (I don't have space either but I have a work area)......but an Ikea table would do the trick. It's not a new concept....look at Ikea and as much as I hate to say this.....Target.
view JacksonMarie's profile
Pardon....I forgot to say - what I love in this photo is the wall. I'm realling liking what appears to be a cut out pattern on the wall and that texture to the right.
I think the table, set in an ordinary setting, as is, might be unnoticeable.
Re: my previous comment - I just don't think money needs to be spent where its wasted. Nothing special about this table warrants the cost - IMO.
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