The elliptical kitchen table expands up to 3.7m long dining size. The insertable leaves are the off-cuts generated from cutting the ellipse. Additional leaves can be added depending on the size of table needed and are left in a pile in the corner of the room when not in use. By using the waste material created while cutting the elliptical table top, the shape is literally turned inside out and order turns to chaos. Etymologically ‘Ellipsis’ means to ‘leave out’ or ‘fall short’ in Greek.

These images above show the first functioning model in pine and plywood (Photography by Luke Hayes) while the images below show the second iteration.