Lonc Clip Board Picnic Table
CLIP-BOARD PICNIC
CLIP-BOARD PICNIC TABLE
A New Twist on a Time-tested Design
Often, less is more, and that’s proven once again with our Clip-board series.
We’ve embraced one of the oldest construction principles around, the humble trestle, and turned it into an ingenious system for tables and benches that relies on the force of gravity – rather than hardware – for structural stability.
Trestle tables have been around pretty much since the invention of tables, but never quite like the Clip-Board. The Clip-board series consists of a modular table, bench and picnic table. In each variation, the weight of the hardwood tabletop and/or bench seat pushing against the trestle frame secures the structure with no additional hardware required.
Because the planks fit through narrow openings at the top of the trestles, they act like levers that exert forces against the trestles to form the self-supporting structure.
The Clip-board series was designed by Patrick Kusters, a hands-on designer who sketches, saws, bends, shapes, and welds in his own workplace until he achieves his ideal of clean lines, archetypal shapes, and deceptive simplicity.
“With my designs,” he says, “I try to surprise, inspire, and encourage frequent use. Nothing more, but then again, nothing less.” It can be easily combined with Lonc’s Easer or Easer Wood chairs, or its Beaser stools. You can mix and match for dining, meeting or work, indoors or outdoors, and you can break down any of the units to stow them away in a compact space or move them to another site. Very simple, very practical, very clever, in other words: very fine furniture.
INFORMATION
DESIGNER
Patrick Kusters
BENCH LENGTH
Each bench seats 4 people
SIZE - STANDARD 220
- Total size: h=75cm, w=220cm, d=185cm.
- Tabletop: w=220cm, d=75cm.
MATERIAL
- Wood
- Steel
WEIGHT
99 to 124kg depending on wood type
SIZE - DOUBLE EXTENDED 550
- Total Size : H = 75 cm, w = 550 cm, d = 185 cm
- Tabletop : W = 550 cm, d = 75 cm
SIZE - EXTENDED 385
- Total Size : h = 75, w = 385, d = 185 cm
- Tabletop : w = 385 cm, d = 75 cm
ESTIMATE DELIVERY TIME
2020
CONSTRUCTION
The tabletop and bench seat are constructed of separate planks of durable FSC certified hardwood – four for the tabletops and three for the benches – that fit together or break down for easy storage. The trapezoidal trestles are tubular steel available in matte white or matte black powder coated versions In each version – Clip-board Table, Clip-board Bench, or the Picnic combination picnic table and bench – the total bench length is 220 centimeters – long enough to comfortably accommodate 4 on each side.
WOOD TYPE
- Rubberwood - Beech - Cumaru - Accoya
