PING-PONG Dining Table by Hunn Wai for Mein Gallery
Good news from the ever-inventive Hunn Wai, who is going from strength to strength having shown
in Milan last year, gone on to Venice for the
11th Architecture Bienalle and been published in Die Gestalten Verlag's book on design/art DESIRE:The Shape of Things to Come.
Now comes his first collaboration with Mein Gallery, the show-space of interior lifestyle concept brand Mein, dedicated to commissioning and showcasing works of young and upcoming designers. PING-PONG Dining table harks back to the origins of table-tennis with its duality of both being a table fit for dining and playing on. What started off as impromptu after-dinner amusement mimicking tennis in an indoor environment for upper-class Victorians became an international phenomenon with rules and standards. This is an official-sized game table with a DuPont™ Corian® surface CNC machine-routed with French Rococo patterns interjected with Ping-pong iconography filled with gold lacquer, supported by stately hand-lathed timber legs.
In the middle, a long rectangular vase filled with dainty blossoms does double-duty as a game-net and a table floral arrangement. Reinstating grandeur and pomp with neo-classical inspired embellishments, with a twist in material by using the hi-tech marble-like Corian, the PING-PONG dining table creates a remarkable conceptual and lifestyle statement in the true heart of the home; the dining area.
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