MCM fans are certainly already clamoring over House Industries' recent collaboration with Herman Miller Asia-Pacific, a custom Eames Low Table Rod (LTR), unveiled at Herman Miller's Reach exhibition in Hong Kong on September 16. A total of 80 tables have been produced by Herman Miller; each tabletop is hand-printed—with letters, numbers and ornaments from the Eames Century Modern font collection—at House Industries' factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then "returned to Herman Miller for assembly then packaged in a special House Industries-designed wooden crate."

Suffice it to say that the tables themselves are absolutely gorgeous, as is the packaging, which was treated with equal consideration:As with most House Industries projects, we tried our best to make the packaging for this limited edition something you wouldn't throw away once the table was removed. Who doesn't like a printed wooden crate that can do double duty as a storage container?

They're rather more classic looking than Alessandro Canepa and Andrea Paulicelli's "Fontables," a Mid-Century Modern mash-up for those of you who aren't over it.Forty of the special Eames LTR will be available at the House Industries exhibition at the Herman Miller Tokyo Showroom on October 27, 2011. More details here.

House at Herman Miller Japan Herman Miller Japan Showroom Marunouchi MY PLAZA 2-1-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan Opening Reception: October 27, 2011