Furniture Design: Play Ping Pong on your office desk with A.P.O.'s new table

There was a time, as a young budding freelancer, when my business partner (that’s much too professional a title really) and I used to work on his kitchen table all day. We’d eat breakfast and lunch there and sometimes dinner too, with our computers pushed to one side for five minutes so we could shovel down tins of soup. The best part of this otherwise disheartening existence was rigging up a table tennis net on the table every lunchtime and pretending we worked in some trendy up-and-coming studio where 50% of your time is spent brainstorming over foosball or hot-desking on bean bags.

If we’d had A.P.O.‘s Bola Service Table in our kitchen-cum-workspace the illusion might have been a little bit more believable as this is one stylish bit of kit. Designed to be both a desk space and ping-pong pitch, this is EXACTLY the kind of high-end plaything you’ve always imagined littering the headquarters of tech startups the world over. Normally that would turn me right off, but I can’t help but be excited by this functional, fun piece of design – plus this video from Commission illustrates the concept beautifully.