The thin, bright red, modern tabletop floats weightlessly over the thick, wooden, minimalist base. The X-shaped base, tapering toward the middle, creates the illusion that the red rectangle is light, almost weightless. On top, dividing the rectangle in half, a silver rectangle perforated with small rectangular holes forms the net for this outdoor ping pong table.
Built the same year and in the same Red Baron red as the bar table for Resident — in fact the piece that led to it, made first. A base of Douglas fir beams, joined with half-laps and no mechanical fasteners, carries a regulation-size ping pong top: 3/8" powder-coated aluminum in Red Baron red, with a laser-cut aluminum net powder-coated silver. The top is held to the base with threaded rod, welded to the underside of the top and bolted through the frame below. The legs are finished with five coats of outdoor tung oil.
Like the bar table it shares its name and finish with, this one pairs a hard-wearing metal playing surface with a wood substructure built to take weather — full regulation size, built to actually be played on rather than just displayed. The two make a matched set of bar siblings, cut from the same Red Baron palette a few months apart.