"Coffee tables quietly witness mornings, late-night emails, and weekend calls with people in other cities. Time passes on screens and clocks on walls, but the table itself usually pretends it has nothing to do with any of it. It just holds mugs and magazines while the hours slip by unnoticed. There's something interesting about furniture that builds time into its structure instead of ignoring it completely."
"Michael Jantzen's Timetables are a series of functional art furniture pieces designed to "celebrate the passage of time." Four are coffee tables, and one is an end table, all made of wood, metal, and glass, with battery-powered clocks that you can access to change batteries and set the time. They're meant to be used, not just looked at, even as they behave like small time sculptures."
"The cylindrical coffee table called Local Time has a single large clock embedded at its center under a glass top. It celebrates the local time of wherever it sits, turning the table into a kind of domestic sundial. Every mug, book, or laptop you set down hovers over that one reference point, a quiet reminder that this particular moment is anchored to this particular place."
Timetables are functional art furniture pieces that celebrate the passage of time. The series includes four coffee tables and one end table constructed from wood, metal, and glass with accessible battery-powered clocks. Local Time is a cylindrical coffee table with a single large clock centered under glass to mark local time. Four Times and Timeline each display Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern times—one circular, one rectangular—supporting multi-zone awareness for homes or studios. Clock Tower is a square end table with four clocks mounted on a central column, presenting the four U.S. time zones like a miniature city clock tower. The designs encourage daily use while acting as time sculptures.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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