{"id":26813,"date":"2014-03-03T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=26813"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:11:58","slug":"sphere-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/furnishings\/sphere-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphere Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm&#8230; the idea behind this <a href=\"http:\/\/hivemodern.com\/pages\/product7128\/sphere-table-hella-jongerius-vitra\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Sphere Table<\/a> is to be commended, but I believe we&#8217;ll all have differing opinions as to the choice of materials. Now, considering this table was created by Hella Jongerius as a special furniture piece for North Delegates Lounge at the United Nations headquarters in New York, it&#8217;s understandable that it has a commercial feel that some may not like for their own home&#8217;s interior. The opalescent acrylic glass that forms the &#8216;bubble&#8217; would definitely be more at home in a futuristic setting than in a more worn-in, vintage room, yet we all know that having a private and sheltered space when working is valuable, and certain things that allow us such space are worth getting used to.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe hemispherical screen may be attached to either side of the table. <\/p>\n<p>Design: Hella Jongerius, 2012<br \/>\nSolid wood, dyed-through acrylic glass, steel<br \/>\nMade in Germany by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitra.com\/en-us\/product\/sphere-table\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Vitra<\/a><br \/>\n47&#8243; w | 29.5&#8243; d | 53&#8243; h<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/sphere-hella-jongerius-vitra-9.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/sphere-hella-jongerius-vitra-10.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm&#8230; the idea behind this Sphere Table is to be commended, but I believe we&#8217;ll all have differing opinions as to the choice of materials. Now, considering this table was created by Hella Jongerius as a special furniture piece for North Delegates Lounge at the United Nations headquarters in New York, it&#8217;s understandable that it [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160,115,137],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/sphere-hella-jongerius-vitra-9.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}