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REdesign is an organisation that rethinks the materials and processes associated with design and the furniture industry. In 2019, the REdesign project used wood-based panels, plywood, MDF and particleboard, as its theme. Mario Tsai Studio uses 5-millimetre thin plywood as its material, aiming to express the unique attributes of this often-overlooked material, such as the elasticity derived from thinness. The studio tries to make the most of every material, exploring its most valuable potential. The Pull Table presents the connecting structure of the table in an anthropomorphic way, using the verb pull. It uses the toughness of 5-millimetre thin plywood, the hardness of steel rods and the flexibility of leather belts to form a stable cycle of mutual tension. The Pull Table encourages users to experience the bending and pressing process that normally belongs to production, and the installation process, in which the three materials pull and constrain one another, is full of play. The project is a furniture series by Mario Tsai Studio that treats thin plywood as a structural material rather than a veneer. It is a demonstration of how a humble industrial panel can be used to build a table through tension between wood, steel and leather, turning the assembly process itself into part of the product's appeal. The result is a light, translucent table that looks almost impossible, held together only by the forces of its own components.
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