The Viking Table

After a visit to Scandinavia, I grew fascinated with ancient Viking construction methods. Viking Stave Churches such as Ringebu and Borgund n Norway have stood for at least 1000 years, and are poised to stand for quite some time longer. Excepting of the staves (millenia-old pillars used as main supports), Viking church construction highly resembles boat construction, an art the Vikings knew well. I have used the tell-tale viking structural ribbing to create a two-tiered coffee table loosely based on such construction. I designed the table in Rhinoceros 4 and used the CMU Architecture Department’s 3-axis CNC mill to cut the pieces out.