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Reader Submitted: Clip Table: Ready-to-Assemble Furniture That Requires No Tools or Hardware

The Clip Table utilizes a connection method that is simple, intuitive and easy to use. Inspired by clamp lid and Weck canning jars from Crate and Barrel, the Clip Table is made of a system of parts that inform the user of how they should be assembled through their form language, with an emphasis on compression and tension.

Made from hand-routed birch plywood, turned tapered ash legs, and bent sheet steel, the design of this ready-to-assemble table can lend itself to both assembly and disassembly with ease, without the need for tools or hardware.

Clip Table Displaying its Inspiration

The table features a speaker I made with a turned, knurled aluminum knob and a ‘Crate and Barrel’ clamp lid jar, one of the mechanisms that inspired this project, filled with loose leaf tea.

Process and Experimentation

Models and Iterations of Clamping Clips

Explorations made out of bent aluminum sheet metal