PLY TABLE

Location: Austin, TX

Size: 60”x24”x21”

Typology:

Furniture Design

Professor: Mark Macek

Ply Table’s intention is to simultaneously display and store books in an unsuspecting way. Its shelf is incorporated into the table, reducing the number of publications stacked on top of each other, while still providing visibility to the titles.

The bent lamination creates an engaging form that emphasizes the stacked plywood layers while walnut sliding doors always allow a portion of the book collection to be displayed.

Each door is one-third the width of the opening, meaning that the book collection always fluctuates between one-third and two-thirds exposure.

This dynamic flexibility helps incorporate the displayed book spines into the design of the table.

The thinness of the doors were cut to an exact measurement to maximize the book volume stored within the table.

Deconstructed Layers

The magazine rack enhances the bent lamination form while providing another displayed storage for print media.

A divider protrudes vertically through the middle of the tabletop, exposing the geometries of the wood's cross section. This creates a beautiful interruption in the tabletop grain.