wabi sabi / art design spirit: Design. Experiments with tables

I present a few tables, which in my opinion are in strange way wabi sabi ;) The first one, bonsai tree table:

Bonsai Structure #2 - designer Anke Weiss

This table is created out of 150 bonsai trees. All trees are hand-cut and assembled by wood-on-wood connections. Only the finest cultivated wood is used in this table.

Its “network”-structures can be found in every scale. Either by looking in as far as possible (cells, molecules, etc.), by looking on the natural human scale veins, lungs, trees, riverbeds, maps etc.), or by looking as far out as possible (solar system, galaxies), even representations of the virtual world (the internet) resemble this structure.

The next one is:

Fractal table, designed by Platform - Wertel, Oberfell

Fractal table is a result of studies into fractal growth patterns that can be found in nature and which can be described with mathematical algorithms. Per definition a fractal is a fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity.

The fascination for designers lies in the objects’ grown and organic nature but also in its structured and mathematical quality. Both in terms of size and complexity Fractal Table pushes the manufacturing process to its limits.

Treelike stems grow into smaller branches until they get very dense towards the top to form a quasi-surface. The structure starts quite unorganized at the bottom and gets progressively organized till it ends in a regular grid, thus a progression from an approximate fractal to a fractal with exact self similarity.

3. experiment - this one is from Poland - designer Mariusz Wdowiak: