Plasticized fabric-draped coffee table

This surreal cocktail table from the 1970s was draped in fabric and then coated with resin, giving it a strange rigidity. It's up for auction on eBay with a BuyItNow price of $495. Plasticized fabric-covered coffee table (eBay, thanks Michael-Anne Rauback!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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jesushootscores

Junk?
wolfiesma

For my money, you’re better off with some oil cloth and a staple gun.
David Pescovitz

MEMBRAIN @2, I don’t think you’re being a troll. As with almost anything on eBay, caveat emptor.
Jamie Sue

Hmmm… I wonder how long before an instructable for this shows up.
Sethum

And here I was visualizing some elegant, billowing white sheet that was mystifyingly frozen in time. Sadly, this looks like someone just hasn’t finished unpacking the furniture for a sidewalk bistro. Interesting idea, nonetheless.
dottedzebra

My guess is that the table wasn’t draped in fabric and then coated with resin, but rather resin was added to the fabric and then the resin impregnated fabric was draped over the table and then arranged. It could be done with about a gallong of epoxy but it’d be a godawfully messy process.
Anonymous

reminds me of chairs here: http://www.joshursodesign.com/

of course, i have a bad habit of piling clothes on all my chairs, so this furniture would just make me look like i had a lot of laundry to do.
Not a Doktor

I have to say it: looks like a shroom.
hohum

Well I, for one, think it’s gorgeous. We need a good HOWTO for this….
AirPillo

This sounds like a fun and challenging DIY project.
kaiza

Better examples of the impermanent made permanent:

John Brauer’s Illusion table – Acrylic (the clear is cool but the white is the better illusion).
http://www.essey.com/illusion.html

Marcel Wander’s Knotted Chair – Rope and resin
http://www.marcelwanders.nl/wanders/pages/seaters-knotchair_1_8_grouppage.shtml
mrmuggles

Mmm. Great concept and idea but the table on the pictures aren’t really that nice in my humble opinion.
Sekino

The idea might have some merit, but this looks exactly like my old patio set when I’d wrap it up in plastic before winter. And sorry but I hate the colour *wince*.

On the other hand, KAIZA’s link shows some pretty darn cool stuff: The Essey illusion tables are impressive!
membrain

Ok now don’t call me a troll, who says this must be from the 1970′s? The seller doesn’t seem to be completely legit to me (too many typos in the product info, etc). I call it a hoax.
membrain

Oh yeah, and it’s probably Photoshoppped, too!