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The BARkwadraat Table: Packs Flat and Uses Magnets for No-Tool Assembly

By Rain Noe - November 29, 2011

in Furniture Design | Sustainable Design

I'm loving the BARkwadraat table, designed in a collaboration between Eveline Pieters' Green Tuna Design brand and Joene Verschuren, a former art therapist turned furniture designer. The BARkwadraat features precisely carved legs (CNC'd by the look of them) that interlock and snap together via embedded magnets, making it an extra handy flatpack table that can easily be assembled without tools. Added bonus: The top is made from one of my favorite materials to see being used—scraps and cutoffs.

Here's how it all comes together:

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joene

13 years ago

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Indeed they're not CNC'd. They're 'hand cut' on a routertable. The table is stable enough for real outside use. The tabletop holds the frame together at the top with dowels. The magnets in the legs are very strong (5x 6 kilo!)
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Ken J

13 years ago

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A CNC water jet would have no problem with those shapes
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Scott

13 years ago

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Probably not CNC'd, as there is no easy way to get those sharp inside corners on a normal 3 axis CNC router. Neat idea, presuming it's stable enough for real use. If someone kicks a leg out from under a fully loaded dinner table, the resulting chaos would be pretty spectacular.
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