My friend Jimbeau took me to a specialty furniture store in Dallas and I saw one of these. It was about $25 Grand or something like that. But boy it was awesome! It’s made by dbFletcher Design.
This round table has the unique ability to grow by about 50% with a simple twist of the table surface. It is a marvel of modern engineering as well as craftsmanship. Truly one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life.
Here is a brief overview video of the table in action:
This one is of the DB Fletcher Capstan Ilona expanding table:
Here is another variant called the Schwartz Table:
If anyone would like to contribute to the “Get John P a Fletcher Capstan table fund” send a check for $20,000 to me and I’ll do a complete review when it arrives.
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I can almost gaurantee this guy used to make wooden puzzles. Having worked in the contract furniture bussiness, the concept is elementary, the execution with accompanying mechanical engineering is genius. Everything must not only work, it must have the fit and finish to satisfy the critical eye of a customer willing to drop 20k on a conversation piece.
That is an awesome looking table! I’m sure that’s quite an engineering feat once one really looked at how they did it. In any case, it’s much more convenient than a table leaf! (But probably not worth that much money to me.)
Nice piece of art, no wonder its worth $25 Grand :shock:
I’ve seen one of these a few years ago in a high end furniture store in New Orleans. I was impressed then. I’m still impressed.
I saw those kind of tables (not that beautyful, more modern-plastic kind of thing) in a Art furniture-store in germany around 10 years ago. The price was a bit lower, but still way out of my range… This one looks just great, but for 25K I guess I would buy other stuff…
cheers
Rhoody
It’s nice to see that Mechanical Engineering still exists. In my first career I used my BSME and even worked in the contract office furniture industry but that was in the last millennium. Now I work on the web where things are easier to do but less impressive.
maybe they’re cheaper this week since the world markets are “readjusting”. Now if we could make these in Asia for half the price…
25K for a table… I don’t care how neat it is, I would never get one… Unless it was autofilling with cold beer and good food…
That is just insane…
Kim:)
wow, that’s a nice table
I would wonder how stable the outer edge is when extended though.
Great Table!,,, I work for Century Furniture Co. who makes High End Furniture and we have a similar table originally invented by Robert Jupe in the 1800s. But our table doesn’t work as nice as this one and you have to store the fillers somewhere. I would love to pick this one apart and study..
Regards
I’ve found a similar table, “retailing” at $3800 here in Canada. It’s 48″ expandable to 60″ – it has 6 hidden leaves which work in a butterfly mechanism. Not even talking about $25000, $3800 is more than I feel like I want to spend, but I _must_ have this table. I looked underneath for a manufacturer label, and all I could see was “Made In China”. I’m souring Alibaba,if I find one, I’ll link it here. At the same time, if anyone finds the manufacturer, let me know! I’ll gladly do a group buy to meet minimum order requirements – with the markup in furniture, the cost is probably close to $1000.
Wow. I’d be interested in knowing where to pick one of those up to! So if you find it please do let us know. ;-)
John P.
that is awesome! i am interested!
Hi everyone! Three months ago I found a video on the desktop, and I thought, I’ll try to do it. There have been attempts to shock, but finally managed to improve on the seven, and it works! it is only 30 cm in diameter. Now I will make 1 m diameter, of course, if you have time after work I do and then Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZrfWNojyIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6dWsX8pN4
What do you think?
were can a person find the table on the web pagehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6dWsX8pN4
Koroly Besze? thank you Dan
Hi Dan.
England now. But I’m Hungarian. You can find contact info for the video.
Thanks Karoly
Πολύ καλό το τραπέζι αλλα αρκετα ακριβο.
Για τους Έλληνες γίνονται καλύτερες τιμες?…..
For the non-Greeks… “Very good, but expensive table. For Greeks there are better prices…”
True. But this particular table is very unique. I’ve never seen anything else like it. So it’s very expensive, but if there are no options I guess they can charge what they want. ;-)
John P.
Very good but quite expensive table.
For the Greeks are better prices;