Core77 - Blog • Jan. 12, 2026, 2:51 a.m.

Andries & Hiroko Van Onck were a husband-and-wife industrial design duo, active in the 20th century and based in Milan. In 1985, they designed this LEM table for Magis: It may not look like much, but it's got a neat trick: This secondhand unit (which looks to have been modified with a non-standard top) gives you a slightly better look at the components, but I still can't figure out how it works.

Surely there's more than just the friction of the rubber balls holding it in place?

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