Every production cycle at the Phantom Hands workshop leaves them with piles of small, uneven, seemingly unusable pieces of wood. To reduce waste and utilise the precious wood, Phantom Hands' encourages their design collaborators to incorporate the leftover wood into their product design. The Nandi dining table is a result of such an attempt to render woodshop debris functional.///DescriptionThis is a classic dining table with a large top composed of an arrangement of wooden pieces of different sizes. Collected from the workshop, each piece of wood is individually shaped and hand-polished. Pieced together, they lend the top a geometric texture or graphic inlay pattern that is unique to each table. Divided into three detachable parts, the top fits into a frame with slots. The cylindrical legs of the table are also screwed onto the frame. There is a deliberate narrow gap between the geometric table top and the frame all around, to allow for the natural seasonal expansion and contraction of wood. The table, which comes flat-packed, is easy to dismantle, transport, and set up.
