Table 2000

There are no conventional legs.

A rectangular glass top is supported on a single point plus or minus 1/16 of an inch in diameter. An array of 80 wires holds it down, to prevent tipping. It is a direct development and improvement on the original 1956 Dining Table version in which the wires were screwed directly into the wooden table taop and the lower mounting ring had to be bolted to the floor.

In this version the entire structure is united so it can be moved as a conventional table, and any table top may be placed on it.

This table comes with a glass top so all of the structure is visible.

The lengths of the base and top structural members may be shortened or lengthened to accommodate more or less wires, in keeping with the length of the table.

The centre post is made of high-strength tool steel, expecially tempered and hard-chrome-plated, capable of resisting 400,000 pounds per square inch, before failing. Depending on the modulus of elasticity of available steel, the centre post could have a thickness of as little as 5/8 inch in diameter, as an ultimate slenderness, for the illusion of impossibility.

The supporting wires are high-strength stainless steel, 24/1000 inch in diameter, in pairs, wrapped around pins within the base, and fixed at the top. Each wire passes through a hole in a bolt which is tightened and held fast with a lock nut. This method allows individual "tuning" of each wire to about 10 pounds per wire.

This table is intended to convey an impression of levitation and structural impossibility.

-T.H. Waddell