saki

designed by charlie sheldon


Saki is and example of efficient design. One table uses exactly 1/3rd of a sheet of plywood
minus the width of the blade that cuts it out. In researching designs that efficiently use
plywood, rectilinear pieces dominated by the original ‘sheet stock’ 4’x8’ format were the norm. Here, shapes are created from an offset rectangle within another rectangle to reveal flowing overlap and intersection escaping, to an extent, the sheet stock form. The material used here is 7/8” Plyboo, but it can be produced using any sheet stock with a few minor adjustments to the design. Any pattern one desires can be carved into the table to create an individual aesthetic either left open as a recess in the material or filled with opaque or translucent resins. At 43” by 25” by 16”, the resulting curvilinear form makes the most of one third of a sheet and is ample size to fill out a living room.

see the saki table here...