Hasta La Ideas

Team 7 is an Austrian outfit that manufacturers furniture out of (gasp!) natural wood, using walnut combined into three plies. Led by experienced wood designer Jacob Strobel, they’ve created a byoootiful extending table with well-concealed extra panels. I’ve seen similar mechanisms before, but the easy, elegant precision of this one, coupled with the gorgeous walnut finish, has me drooling.

It’s called the Flaye, and unsurprisingly there’s no video of what we designers all want to see—what’s going on below the table during the action. All they’ll say is that it works via “revolutionary non-stop synchronised pull-out technology.”

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