Bar Table by Måns Salomonsen
Swedish designer Måns Salomonsen has sent us photos of a bar table he created, which is the result of a school project at Sweden’s Steneby University, where he was required to make a table with a metal underframe.
Måns says:
In my project before this one, I made a stool that could move 3-dimensionaly (http://salomonsen.se/playful.html), I worked with a twisted shape/form in that one and wanted do develop that form language in the bar table. I was experimenting with different ideas on how to include a foot rest in the same construction. I found the material in the tabletop, aluminium foam, on a material fair about 2 years ago and found that interesting. Now was the first time I got an idea on what I could use that material for. So I got some material samples from KG Fridman, a company in Sweden who sell that material and ordered Araldit plastic that i coloured black. The idea was to use the pattern created from the bubbles in the aluminium. So the surface is filled with plastic that harden and then grinded down so I got the contrast between the shiny aluminium and the black palstic. The tabletop has a stainles steel edge as protection.
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lauren on 02 Nov 2009 at 7:36 pm #
cant stand beer but maybe this stool would change that.
Anatoli on 02 Nov 2009 at 10:12 pm #
It’s a table
zachary on 02 Nov 2009 at 11:20 pm #
looks like a shin killer if you had too many beers.
Michael on 03 Nov 2009 at 7:10 pm #
Better bolt that thing to the floor unless you like spilled beer and broken glass ;-P
Dee on 04 Nov 2009 at 10:45 pm #
I like the design of this bar table.
Anton Björsing on 19 Nov 2009 at 11:45 am #
Jag tycker det är helt fantastiskt! Grattis måns , du är kungen.=)
edward3ah on 21 Dec 2009 at 8:13 pm #
nicely designed…looks complicated but not, and very ergonomic.