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Wreck This Table to Bring Out the Colors [Furniture]

Wreck This Table to Bring Out the Colors [Furniture] What began as a plain gray table blossomed into a multi-color butterfly after visitors at an exhibition were encouraged to pick out up squares of sandpaper and drill right down to the 50 colors hidden underneath.

It’s the work of Ed Swan , who designed the Mark Makers table for an exhibition at the Okay Studio in London. The finished result (well, as finished as it may be without stripping it all the way down to the very last color) looks rings a bell in my memory of a kind of mood stones full of thermotropic liquid crystals, that are sensitive to touch and turn out to be various colors counting on the level of heat. [ Ed Swan via Core77 ]

London Design Festival 2010: Mark Makers Table by Ed Swan from Core77 on Vimeo .

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