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Dual Purpose Dining Table

qubis folding table
qubis folding table

I do love a multi-purpose piece of furniture and when I saw this table from Qubis it made me think that if I’d had one of these all those years I spent working at the kitchen table then perhaps I wouldn’t have needed to convert the loft to get a desk. Well not quite, but you can see from the picture what a fantastic idea it is. It’s formica on one side and oak on the other and you simply flip between the two. Imagine the feeling of properly ending the day’s work as you swivel from one to the other. Or think of being able to use the formica side for kids’ creative play and not worrying if your dinner is going to be full of all the glitter and glue that you couldn’t quite clean off properly in time for dinner.

If you don’t want formica then the designer Amy Whitworth of Qubis is completely open to letting you customise the table however you wish. Her suggestions include stainless steel, oxidised brass or zinc – all of which would be amazing. She also has another version with benches on either size that, if you flip it halfway, becomes a bigger bench with a back rest. Clever innit?

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If you don’t need tables then Qubis also make a variety of stools and garden furniture. Below are three options for stool seats.

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But, if I’m honest, my favourite piece of them all is the Qubis Haus, which I saw in the window of a house I was once walking past and had no idea where it came from. Before Christmas, Amy contacted me to ask if I was interested in writing about her furniture and I realised I had found the creator of the BEST DOLL’S HOUSE EVER. It doubles up as a coffee table (or vice versa depending – I imagine – on your age) and was recently added to the permanent collection at the Museum of Childhood.

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I have been looking for a low coffee table for the loft and I would love to have this one. Not only could you then justify all those Vitra minis, which I have always thought were rather pointless but is probably the only way I’m going to get my hands on an Eames lounge chair, but think of the fun you could have arranging it. The possibility for HOURS of work procrastination. There are a couple of different shapes and versions but know that all the grooves will take an iPad so you could prop one up and watch telly too – even more procrastination awaits. You can buy additional walls and people to live in it, but the price starts at around £330 for the simplest rising to £495 for the one above.

What do you think? Wouldn’t it make a fantastic present?

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

2 Comments

  1. Both the dining table and the coffee table are very cool. Definitely need something like this in my house, if I had room for them!

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