Architecture studio McCloy + Muchemwa has teamed up with maker studio Mitre & Mondays to create tables that join together like puzzle pieces.
The Partly Cloudy Tables were designed for Out & About, a programme of free events in Pinball Park, Sheffield, intended to support economic recovery in the northern English city.
Each table has its own unique shape. But they fit together in many different ways, offering endless possibilities for configuration.
Each of the Partly Cloudy Tables has a unique shape
"The Partly Cloudy Tables are designed as a family where the geometry of each tabletop is similar but not identical," said McCloy + Muchemwa co-founders Steve McCloy and Bongani Muchemwa.
"The tables link together so that they can be used individually, deployed in linear arrangements, or gathered into islands and organic clusters," they told Dezeen. London-based McCloy + Muchemwa and Mitre & Mondays worked together to take the project from concept to reality, after being introduced by Out & About curators Kerry Campbell and David McLeavy.
Their goal was to produce shapes that can serve different functions, but also inspire creative thinking that might not be possible on traditional tables.
The tabletops and bases come apart for easy storage and transport
"One hypothesis was that rectangular tables dictate orthogonal arrangements and can cause a hierarchical situation during public workshops," said McCloy and Muchemwa.
"We want...