The wishing table
The Earth Table Stripe by Fluid Forms is on the best track to be such a classic as the fairy tale by the brothers Grimm. As important as the individual way to tell a famous story like „the wishing table“ is the individual designing of this fancy piece of furniture. And it is so incredibly easy. Everyone, who is in the possession of a computer and a computer-mouse can create an unique piece of furniture almost all by himself. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy! But not only that you can change the very look of the table, also the size of it can be adjusted to your own personal needs. Everything goes: Quadratic, longish, quadratic, longish or why not try out quadratic?
The steps to design your own Earth Table are easy to describe: It all bases upon Google Maps. At first you have to search for a place on earth you consider worthy to be the place where you will be eating for the next 10 years (at least!) and then Fluid Forms will put this model into a real table. Only with the help of a cnc-miller. High quality laminated wooden blocks will bestow the right material to look at, 8 mm thick glass will be the right sphere to eat on while looking at the Yellow Stone National Park, the Whitsunday Islands or the heart of London. But before you can use your table the surface has to besanded, oiled and polished by hand by skilled Austrian craftsmen. Fluid Forms only wants the best for you, huh?
Dine in the middle of the Brasilian jungle, on the Sout African table mountain, in the midst of the Great Barrier Reef (greeting Nemo while eating fish fingers….!?), on the Rocky Mountains or in London, Paris, New York or Moscow. With the Earth Table Stripe one has always the feeling to be on two places at a time. Here and at the place of your choice. Isn’t home where the heart is? Maybe you can also pick your tiny little hometown to be your table-to-be? Wouldn’t that be fun? (In my case that would be Nitscha-Feldgasse, Austria, if anyone out there is interested….)
