Table & Tennis

2 Table & Tennis questions for a magazine In Singapore

1) Please paint a picture of what one of the buyers of the table could do now— that he could not do before.

From a functional standpoint, with Table & Tennis you can have one table serve multiple purposes. It doesn’t make sense to take up extra space with two tables. I figured why have one beautiful table for meetings, and then another table for play that was so ugly you had to hide it in another room. Why not merge the two and make it as seamless as possible to transition from one use to the other. From the perspective of an office culture, it allows you to engage with co-workers or clients in an entirely different way, and through play you will learn a lot about each other, as well as have some fun and get some exercise in the process.

2) Just taking a swing, but was there any guiding philosophy behind wanting to merge two items into one? Any wise-sounding saying? We’d like to hear it from you!

The philosophy for this table is more important to me than the physical piece. Play is incredibly important for people, and yet it is usually not embraced in offices. I want Table & Tennis to help facilitate a mindset and a culture that embraces play, and sees the value in it. Here are a few related quotes that can say it better than I can:

“The opposite of play is not work, it is depression.” - Brian Sutton-Smith

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” - Plato

“The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections, and only a mind which knows how to play can do that.” - Nagle Jackson