World’s Lightest Table: 8 Feet Long, Weighs Only 20 Pounds

Working with manufacturer Corelam, designer Benjamin Hubert‘s work is laying claim to the title of the lightest timber table in the world.

Layers of wood form the corrugated support structure necessary to span under the object’s slim surface, all while managing to remain only a few millimeters thick.

Like its cardboard cousins, these corrugations coupled with a flat top make for an unusually strong shape, hence the ability to keep things thin and light throughout.

The bent and also-wood legs, as you might imagine, are also mostly hollow and similarly shaped to be light yet strong.

The resulting object can be assembled and (as shown above) carried by a single person despite, much less massive than it appears and using a fraction of the materials of a similarly-sized table.