Solid wood furniture · Berlin-Lichtenrade

Wheelchair-accessible kitchen and dining table

folded 70 × 45 cm · 78 cm high · unfolded 60 cm wide · solid alder, oiledBerlin-Lichtenrade2020

A small table for a narrow kitchen that has to be worktop, kitchen table and dining table at once. The client uses a wheelchair. A space-saving solution was asked for: folded, the top is 45 centimetres wide at the seating sides. For meals, two very light leaves on one side fold out with one hand, and the top becomes 60 centimetres wide.

The table stands on sledge feet instead of four legs, so the wheelchair can roll up to the ends without obstruction. A flat drawer on each seating side holds napkins and small things. Solid alder, oiled.

The difficult part was the delicate folding mechanism, so that the table opens and folds away again with little force and one hand.

The photographs were taken in the workshop, before delivery.

Wheelchair-accessible kitchen and dining table in the workshop, from the long side: the two extension leaves hang folded down, beneath them the central base on runners that leaves the space in front of the table clear.
Long side, with the two table-top extensions folded down
The table from above at an angle: one of the two leaves is folded up and widens the top on that side, the other still hangs down, the base with its runners beneath. Workshop machines behind.
Table top half unfolded
The short side of the table, the seating side: the flat drawer pulled out, sides and front in solid wood, the bottom in pale plywood, the base on its runners behind.
Short side, the seating side, with its drawer

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