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Tables That Change Length, Some More Stylishly Than Others

By Rain Noe - October 11, 2011

in Object Culture

I'll never get tired of seeing tables designed to seamlessly change their length. Here's a quick roundup of five tables that flip open, extend and transform from basic to boastful.

First, the basic, tried-and-true Flip Top Dining Table:

BoConcept's Occa 383028 with the sweet, hideaway center leaves concept that many of these types of tables now boast:

This Vancouver Cross Leg Butterfly Oak Table is a more crafts-oriented version of the same concept. The video is overlong at nearly eight minutes, by the way; the action starts at 1:29:

The Remix Extendable Table removes a step by mechanizing the center leaf action:

This Atlantide table, designed for Italian manufacturer Desalto by Marco Acerbis, takes the cake in terms of pimposity. They've had some fun with the center section, seemingly for no reason other than that they figured out how to engineer it at an angle:

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One of my favorites will always be DB Fletcher's Capstan expanding table. Incredibly slick: http://youtu.be/Bh_qn62zny0
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