"Square Knot Table" 2012
Clara Bertness, Hannah Oh, Zander Mattaway, Megan Correa
We, this noble band of students, had a plan: a bent lamination table mimicking the comforting visual of woven cloth and made from only two parts. The table was designed after the Japanese kotatsu, a low table and heated blanket family members hang out under during the cold winter months. Square Knot, like a kotatsu, is meant for relaxed social use.
Square Knot also taught us a valuable lesson in material familiarity: bent lamination is complex, time consuming, and material intensive. We made the molds and built this table in two weeks, and none of us will ever take bent lamination lightly again.
