I love this table by Hunn Wai for the Mein Gallery. If Ping Pong is going to be big we all need to think of ways of making it less basement. Ok most of us are not going to be able to afford anything as amazing as this. But this is how design works. Some pioneering soul does something beautifully unique (and therefore expensive) and then someone finds a way of making it cheaper.
The swedes love a bit of Pong so how long before we see an Ikea dining / table tennis / table? Yeah.
More on this piece from Core 77 blog.
"PING-PONG Dining table harks back to the origins of table-tennis with its duality of both being a table fit for dining and playing on. What started off as impromptu after-dinner amusement mimicking tennis in an indoor environment for upper-class Victorians became an international phenomenon with rules and standards. This is an official-sized game table with a DuPont Corian surface CNC machine-routed with French Rococo patterns interjected with Ping-pong iconography filled with gold lacquer, supported by stately hand-lathed timber legs. In the middle, a long rectangular vase filled with dainty blossoms does double-duty as a game-net and a table floral arrangement. Reinstating grandeur and pomp with neo-classical inspired embellishments , with a twist in material by using the hi-tech marble-like Corian, the PING-PONG dining table creates a remarkable conceptual and lifestyle statement in the true heart of the home, the dining area."
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