Nest of Three Tables in Birch Plywood 500mm Wide

Three tables at 500, 450 and 400mm wide, in heights that work as a coffee table, a side table and something to put a laptop on while sitting on the floor. Largest table 500mm wide, which is under a standard door and under most gaps between a sofa and a wall.

Everything we sell is under 800mm wide. That is not a style, it is the constraint the whole range is designed around, because it is the measurement that decides whether a piece of furniture works in a small flat. Eight hundred millimetres is roughly the width of a standard internal door, the width of the gap most people have between a sofa and a wall, and the point past which a piece stops reading as part of the room and starts reading as an obstacle. Designing to it is harder than designing without it and it is the only interesting thing about furniture for small spaces.

Specification

• Dimensions: largest 500mm wide by 400mm deep by 520mm high, smallest 400mm wide
• Floor footprint: 0.20 square metres nested
• Material: 18 layer birch plywood with the edge left exposed and lacquered, so the layers read as a stripe
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed, legs in your chosen finish
• Capacity: 25kg per table evenly distributed
• Assembly: flat packed, about 20 minutes for the set
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 1 carton, largest 560mm by 560mm by 120mm. Through a standard 762mm door: yes. Into a small lift: yes
• Weight: approximately 17.2 kilograms for the set
• Tables in the set: three
• Heights: 520, 460 and 400mm
• Nesting clearance: 20mm all round so they do not scuff
• Legs: solid timber, or steel in your chosen finish
• Felt pads fitted, spares in the box

What you get

• Three tables
• Legs in your chosen finish
• Felt pads and a spare set
• Levelling glides
• Hex key and printed instructions

Assembly

Flat packed, with a hex key, a spanner and printed instructions in the box. Fittings are cam locks and threaded steel inserts rather than chipboard screws, which is what lets a piece be taken apart and reassembled without the joints going loose. We reckon on three moves and have tested to ten.

If you are renting

Nothing here touches the wall. No drilling, no anchors, no filler and no repainting on the way out. Felt pads on every contact point, and a set of spare pads in the box for when the first set wears through.