December 11, 2006

The Fletcher Capstan Table One of the more beautiful pieces of furniture I've seen in awhile. A circular table that expands to double capacity in a mesmerising radial fashion. the Montana is my favorite. Santa. Hint.
posted by petebest 17 years ago
  • How do I pinch thee? Let me count the ways. Those are gorgeous, though! Must be quite heavy.
  • That's a helluvva table. Now if they could come up with one that goes from a two-top to a four-top, I'd be all about it. Maybe a six-top for those all night DnD games.
  • Do you even have twelve friends, pete?
  • Magentic floating beds are waaaaay cooler.
  • OK, we totally need the floating beds and the sprially-expandy-turny tables for our secret Monkey Island Lair™. We can have a couple of these folding cardboard beds for when Scaramanga and Blofeld come to visit.
  • Very cool. I'd be curious to have a look at the mechanism underneath. Somehow I'm hoping it's elegantly simple and clever, not the Rube Goldberg contraption I'd surely come up.
  • Do you even have twelve friends, pete? Ach! Yes! Life-size cardboard cutouts count, right? There's Worf, Spiderman, the Coors lady, Chrissy Hynde (grrowr!) . umm. . three, four, ok, no.
  • Who needs friends when you have a table like that? Hunh? although frankly i'm nervous about getting my hand or pinkie caught in the sharp rotating wedgies
  • Brilliant. So very nice to see people still thinking with wood. Hey now: Mind out of the gutter.
  • The one in the gizmodo article has very fussy feet, but the ones on the main website are be ewe tee full. If I had the money and the space...
  • Nice, but Capstan tastes, Ikea budget here I'm afraid.
  • BPH: I believe the point you wish to stress is that many cannot think with wood.
  • I don't really like the big heavy brown wood kind of stuff, but it does look very cool. (And Pete IS twelve friends!)
  • There's some weird stuff going on at the edge when the thing is closed up, because the radii don't match. But at least it doesn't have the knee-busting features of their raising and furling table:
    This table is composed of a small diameter top under which expansion leaves hang like bats asleep.
    [I'm in the furniture repair biz, btw.]
  • So is "bats asleep" the technical term? (Either way, it's a really apt description.)