Beautiful radially-expanding table.

[burjzyntski]

Has anyone seen this?

This, the Fletcher Capstan Table, is the only table in the world with its unique properties.

It is a circular table which, when rotated at its outer perimeter, doubles its seating capacity, yet astonishingly remains truly circular.

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Specifications

* Tables can be of any style and of any suitable material and are exclusively designed for each commission
* The area of the table expands by 73% allowing two sizes with seating capacities of six and twelve.
* Typical diameter variation – small size 1.9m (74.75”), large 2.5m (98.5”)
* The operating mechanism is beautifully engineered, simple and robust.

http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan/

(the videos are ~2MB and located halfway down the page)

[sarah.miller]

yes, I’ve seen one. My old boss in Scarborough had one , it was a beautifull looking table and allowed him to always have “just” the right size table for a dinner party. He threw very good parties.

[kington99]

That is a brilliant mechanism, a very nice piece indeed.

[johnfoss]

I remember seeing something like that at a local furniture store. It was an expensive store, but the table I watched in the video looked even expensiver!

[carsonpalooza]

woah! that’s so cool.

[Zzagg]

I couldn’t watch the vid but it seems quite impressive.

yet astonishingly remains truly circular

I may be wrong but the table can’t be TRULY circular once deployed, because the 6 sectors have a lower “curve radius” than the radius of the extended table.
It only looks like a perfect disk.
Anyway, it’s still very good looking and must be practical.

[dan_de_man]

here is a yuoutube vid of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7wwlI_Tes

[ThisGuyIKnow]

@Zzagg

I couldn’t watch the vid but it seems quite impressive.
I may be wrong but the table can’t be TRULY circular once deployed, because the 6 sectors have a lower “curve radius” than the radius of the extended table.
It only looks like a perfect disk.
Anyway, it’s still very good looking and must be practical.

When it’s in it’s unexpanded position there is a lip that comes up over the edge to table. The lip is probably round, and cut on the inside to match the slightly different curve of the pieces that fit into it. That’s just a guess though.

[Zzagg]

I saw the Utube vid… I guess you’re right ThisGuyIKnow.
Now that’s a cool table!