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ALUMINIUM TABLE, 1980
Inspired by aircraft construction, I tried to make a 6ft by 4ft table as light as possible. Unfortunately someone sat on the table right in the middle tearing the aluminium out of the rivets, so I had to reinforce it with a bit of steel. 
I'm not sure what to think about Norman Foster (the posh British architect). He obviously shares my admiration for aircraft construction, and I like his Stanstead airport, but his style doesn't seem a particularly cosy or human sort of architecture. 

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Lifting the table
on my little finger

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Years later I bought a chunk of a concorde wing from an aircraft scrapyard and made it into my own office table.
Every part of it has been milled from 2 to 4 inch thick plate.
None of wing is totally flat so the struts taper slightly and no two holes in the struts are the same size.
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