Faced with the possibility of camping in a kitchenless space, we’ve been thinking about ways to forge a makeshift kitchen. Lately, we’ve come across a number of kitchen islands made out of sawhorses and a slab of wood. Although they have a pleasingly ad hoc feeling, sawhorses naturally seem to possess a low-key architectural aesthetic,…
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We were looking at this photo of a work table of artist Dieter Roth on display Hauser & Wirth gallery, admiring its design, and its sculptural base…and started to wonder if those V-shaped supports were not simply upside-down wooden sawhorses affixed to a slab of plywood.
Read Morecopy this: hinged, folding/expanding table top
We spotted this great table at MC&Co, a Brooklyn-based company that makes furniture and household accessories (including copies of a Donal Judd daybed and a Rietveld outdoor chair)…It’s a hinged rectangular laminate top set on ash saw horses. To expand the table, you lift the top, open it like a book and set it back…
Read Moresawhorse tables as solution + sculpture
When we need a table in a hurry for a project or a bigger-than-expected-crowd-for-dinner, we pull out a pair of folding aluminum saw horses we keep the closet. We lay on a top made out of a hollow-core door or a slab of plywood cut to whatever size we like (we’ve got a small version…
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