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The Table That Talked Back
January 18, 2012
Listen to your hands from Sanghyeok Lee on Vimeo.
Last week, we marveled at the secret compartments tucked inside the Kai Table, a beautifully crafted wooden tabletop meant to inspire curiosity and exploration. Korean designer Lee Sanghyeok has created a similarly playful object called “Listen to Your Hands,” a table that investigates the sense of touch as the primary means of dialogue between human and object.
A wooden desk with an asymmetrical stack of drawers defies the inertia of the typical table by responding to the actions of its human user: the push of one drawer results in the opening of another, and only a gentle closing of a drawer can keep all the others intact, suggesting that humans need to “act with intention.” The plea for responsible action aside, Lee’s mischievous table would be the perfect prop for a Marx Brothers slapstick routine.

[Image and video courtesy the designer]






