Mind-Boggling Balance: Three-Legged Bench + Table Set | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - Feed https://dornob.com Architecture, Interior and Furniture Design Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Mind-Boggling Balance: Three-Legged Bench + Table Set https://dornob.com/surprisingly-balanced-three-legged-bench-table-set/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:00:44 +0000 http://dornob.com/?p=38835 Three legs provide counter-intuitive stability to this hybrid piece of outdoor furniture, the latest in a line of tripod furnishings from Stijn Guilielmus Ruys, a Belgian furniture designer (images by Bert Sacré). From virtually any angle it looks like the pair is about to fall over, thanks to the illusion of separation between the one-legged bench and […]

The post Mind-Boggling Balance: Three-Legged Bench + Table Set first appeared on Dornob.

]]> 3 legged bench

Three legs provide counter-intuitive stability to this hybrid piece of outdoor furniture, the latest in a line of tripod furnishings from Stijn Guilielmus Ruys, a Belgian furniture designer (images by Bert Sacré).

3 legs

From virtually any angle it looks like the pair is about to fall over, thanks to the illusion of separation between the one-legged bench and two-legged table that meet at a single point.

3 leg furniture set

Together, the parts of Guilielmus 010 form a functional outdoor surface-and-seat set that cleverly defy gravity. Other similarly three-legged designs in the series are impressive but none provide the same sense of vertigo that this one manages to induce.

 

The post Mind-Boggling Balance: Three-Legged Bench + Table Set first appeared on Dornob.

]]>