Green marble ping pong table with raw edges and steel legs
A bespoke ping-pong table by Ron Arad Studio crafted from heavy green marble with a carved stone net, balancing monumental materiality with playful furniture design.
- What we like about this project
- The net is carved directly out of a heavy slab of rough-edged green marble, inscribed with the text 'Don't Lose Your Marbles'.
Materials
- green-marble
- tubular-steel
- stone
Visual identifiers
- green-marble
- stone-net
- tubular-steel-legs
- polished-stone
Style tags
- sculptural
- contemporary
- playful
- luxurious
Visual tags
- furniture-design
- playful
- luxury-material
- bespoke
- sculptural
- Geometry
- Rectangular table surface split by a heavy stone net, supported by bent tubular steel legs over a dark hexagonal-tile floor.
- Structural guess
- Heavy stone top supported by welded structural steel tubular underframe.
- Spatial scale
- Furniture scale; standard ping pong table dimensions built in heavy stone.
- Lighting
- Direct overhead vertical linear strip lights reflecting intensely off the polished green marble surface.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and witty, contrasting heavy geological texture with sleek lighting and playful function.
- Environmental context
- Dark, controlled interior or exhibition setting with vertical illumination accents.
- Spatial experience
- An unexpected intersection of monumental stone mass and playful sports furniture set in a dark, high-contrast gallery space.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal green marble planes contrasted against vertical luminous stripes and curving steel leg geometries.
- Style reading
- Sculptural contemporary designer furniture
- Program
- Exhibition furniture / interactive art piece
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- green-marble, tubular-steel, stone
- Visual identifiers
- green-marble, stone-net, tubular-steel-legs, polished-stone
- Style tags
- sculptural, contemporary, playful, luxurious
- Visual tags
- furniture-design, playful, luxury-material, bespoke, sculptural
- Geometry
- Rectangular table surface split by a heavy stone net, supported by bent tubular steel legs over a dark hexagonal-tile floor.
- Structural guess
- Heavy stone top supported by welded structural steel tubular underframe.
- Spatial scale
- Furniture scale; standard ping pong table dimensions built in heavy stone.
- Lighting
- Direct overhead vertical linear strip lights reflecting intensely off the polished green marble surface.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and witty, contrasting heavy geological texture with sleek lighting and playful function.
- Environmental context
- Dark, controlled interior or exhibition setting with vertical illumination accents.
- Spatial experience
- An unexpected intersection of monumental stone mass and playful sports furniture set in a dark, high-contrast gallery space.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal green marble planes contrasted against vertical luminous stripes and curving steel leg geometries.
- Style reading
- Sculptural contemporary designer furniture
- Program
- Exhibition furniture / interactive art piece
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- interior