At first glance, you’ll find the Craft 2.0 immediately intriguing. It’s impossible not to, with wooden gears, tooth hills, pinhole joints, and other unusual elements all over its structure. You just don’t see tables with parts like that.
Designed by Renier Winkelaar, it’s a wooden table that looks like it will be as much at home in the dining room as it will be in a workshop garage. Sure, all those gears and pinhole joints might look a bit strange in the dining area, but dress it up with a nice tablecloth and things should be fine.
Chances are, seeing those gears and tooth hills under the tabletop makes you think the Craft 2.0 is able to transform into something else. Well, it sort of does. The table is actually designed to be expandable, allowing you to adjust the length by simply moving the left and right tops, aligning the tooth hills to the gear, and inserting an appropriately-sized board to cover the distance. Done. It can expand from 230 to 270 cm in length.
Apart from the wooden elements that facilitate the table’s expansion, it also uses custom wooden elements in the frame, including pinhole and dovetail joints. According to Winkelaar, it’s not a mere aesthetic decision; rather, those are the elements that actually hold the table together, since he eschewed the use of any nail, screw, or glue in its construction. That’s right, there is absolutely nothing in this piece of furniture other than wood.
Want one? Winkelaar is selling custom-made examples of the Craft 2.0. Pricing will only be given on request, though, so expect it to be steep.