Message Table

An answering machine that was merged into a wooden table. For each message received, a box appears on the table. To listen, open a box - and to delete it push it back into the surface. Exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, at the and at the Salone del Mobile 2005 in Milano and at the Gallery AB+, Torino
(designed with Shawn Bonkowski)

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Technical details

The table was build by hacking an existing answering machine and rewiring of some of its function (such as recording a message, play and pause). In order to control it electronically, the components were then connected to a wiring board. The Message Table had several iterations. The first version used an existing Ikea table, the second was custom-made hardwood table, and the latest version was integrated into the Techno table, “Nomos”.