New Contract Furniture

Have you ever seen that game called “Jenga”, where everyone tries to remove wooden blocks from the bottom of a tower and put them on the top without toppling the whole thing? The name is derived from kujenga, the Swahili verb “to build”. (Thank you, Wikipedia!) Anyway, the game is great fun and also causes great suspense as you wait to see if the tower will topple.

I only mention this because the Vicente García Jiménez Plaza Table sort of reminds me of a Jenga stack just waiting to topple. Now, I realize that the Jenga analogy is just in my head, and that this table is very sturdy and wouldn’t really topple in the middle of dinner. But the haphazard base of this table still makes me think of the game. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

“Both a sculpture and piece of furniture, Plaza takes its name from the place in a city where people’s paths and lives cross, giving expression to a myriad of voices, thoughts and personalities.” This table is obviously much deeper than a stack of blocks. It’s got style. Available in black or white, the Plaza’s base symbolizes said meeting point of paths. The rectangular forms represent the many intersecting thoughts. See? I can understand these things when I apply myself.

The Plaza can be ordered with a round or square table top in glass, wood, or wenge’ – tropical wood from the Wengé tree (Millettia laurentii) from Africa. (Thanks again, Wikipedia!) I think this table would look nice and funky with some bistro chairs in the UK. What do you think? Is this table a hit or a miss?

This entry was posted on Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 12:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.