zigzag table by michael schoner from netherlands

zigzag table

The zigzag table through its regular irregularity seems to be moving or walking. It has some animalistic appeal like a dog with two tails that never knows where its front is and that turns in circles trying to find it.

It is foldable and stackable cafeteria furniture. It can seat up to 6 persons. If it should be placed in a row it would stand across the room in a diagonal, unless you mix it with its mirrored B-type.

Thin 2mm aluminium plates stiffen each other out, when you fold them apart. Each pair of legs consists of 2 L-shaped arms and one U-shaped middle piece. Since the fold out in different directions (like a Z in top view) the 2 L-shaped arms can be identical.

When the arms are folded out diagonally to the corners or the table or to the middle, they not only stiffen out the legs perpendicular to the plate, but also support it in the middle and its cantilevering areas.

If the legs are folded together and down onto the plate for transport, they interlock. Thus hugging the corner points of the legs unfolded you get the hexagonal shape of the plate. It looks like the combined area of two rectangles shifted diagonally.

The zig zag of its legs and the hexagon shape of the plate unsettle the usual image of a table. Even though highly logic it bewilders to see the main construction dive away from the plates edges. The “shifted” shape of the plate adds to it by upsetting the perpendicular system. In this way the oddities encourage the viewer to walk around the furniture to understand it fully.

W = 908mm
L = 2000mm
H = 750mm