Grid System Table Ying Chang
Essentially the desk consists of a base metal frame that holds up mesh boxes and translucent volumes that can be grouped and rotated into different arrangements depending on the environment.
Grid system table ying chang. London based product designer and an established retail designer it is a showcase of her products design retail design interior design design art and material experiments. The gridded surfaces and translucent volumes of ying chang s grid system desk offer a versatile alternative to the often expansive static planes of archetypical furniture. The project is set to challenge the automatic and habitual reaction to our everyday object s forms and functions by re examining aspects of the domestic environment with a particular focus on the surface. A strange but interesting idea by the designer ying chang who designed a table with a grid like structure which can also be modified by rotating the mesh boxes.
In ying chang s project also called grid system the designer has applied these principles to three dimensional spaces to create a modular table system that aims to challenge ideas about. Now studying design products at royal college of art. A series of metal mesh boxes are contained within an aluminium frame supporting various accessories for different uses. Royal college of art graduate ying chang has developed a modular table system based on a gridded surfaces and translucent volumes.
Grid system it is a modular furniture system that consists of numbers of mesh boxes hold together by a base metal frame. To say that this desk is a multi purpose piece of furniture is an understatement. The table comprises of three basic components the base. London based designer ying chang developed a modular grid table system that can be customized to the user s preferences.
The project is set to challenge the automatic and habitual reaction to our everyday object s forms and functions by re examining aspects of the domestic environment with a particular focus on the surface. So what is so mind bending about grid table you might wonder. Different functions formed by grouping or rotating the mesh boxes according to one s own functional needs. Ying chang s grid furniture system on display at the rca graduate show from 18 29 june has a mind boggling number of configurations changing from desk to storage to dinner table.
The system consists of three basic component groups. Well that s exactly what the fantastic grid table designed by ying chang a young royal college of art graduate based in london does.