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Dutch designer Richard Hutten has created a conference table that can easily be converted for a game of ping pong.

The Ping Table by Richard Hutten for furniture brand Lande features a drawer in each end to contain the two white bats, balls and a detachable net that clamps onto the edges of the table top.

“In the morning you can work on it solitarily, then use if for lunch with your colleagues, or have a meeting of up to ten people, followed by a game of table tennis,” said Hutten.

“Our work is a big part of our lives and a part of who we are,” he continued. “Due to the digitalisation of society, we are always ‘on’, so it is important to take a break and have fun. Design is traditionally about solving problems. I don’t solve problems, I create possibilities.”

He explained that the product is good for body and mind because it encourages play and activity during the day. “A game of table tennis clears the mind, which eventually leads to increased productivity,” he said.

The table is made of beech and features a walnut inlay to mark out the field for table tennis, but also divides the surface into four workspaces.

The pared-back design is meant to make it suitable for residential or industrial environments. It’s made by craftsmen in the Netherlands and measures 240 by 120 centimetres.

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Visitors are invited to make their mark on the cafe walls of London’s Design Museum by ticking boxes on this stripy wallpaper by Dutch designer Richard Hutten.

The design of the Layers wallpaper is based on the brightly coloured tape used to seal boxes, with some strips labelled ‘fragile’, while others feature the yellow and black stripes of hazard tape.

A few of the strips read ‘I’m Here 2:’ alongside the selection of tick boxes that offer responses like ‘play’, ‘forget’ and ‘destroy’.

See more stories about wallpaper on Dezeen here, including some that changes under different lighting conditions.

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Photographs are by Luke Hayes.

Here’s some more information from Designwall:

‘Layers’ by Richard Hutten in Design Museum London

The Design Museum in London decorated its cafe with the Layers wallpaper by Richard Hutten for Designwall. The Layers wallpaper is based on the everyday tapes that you would use to seal a cardboard box. Using a series of existing tape designs and the development of new patterns, Hutten transformed the idea into a wallpaper. The wallpaper is not to be seen as a finished piece, but as a wallpaper which invites you to draw or write on it. On one tape you can even leave your mark expressing your feelings or needs, in order to make it personal and unique.

Layers is a continuation from Hutten’s Layers Furniture (Milan Design Week 2008), originally designed for a room in the Llayers Lloyd Hotel in Tokyo. Layers is one of the unique wallpapers of Designwall. Designwall is a initiative of Ontwerpwerk, The Hague.

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At design fair Object Rotterdam earlier this month Dutch designer Richard Hutten presented new additions to his Playing with Tradition series of oriental rugs, where the traditional patterns are stretched into stripes.

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