The Monolith table design takes its inspiration from The Sentinel, a book by Arthur C. Clarke that went on to be made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
A glass table top seems to balance miraculously on top of toppling monoliths, which appear to be frozen in a permanent state of impending collapse, a concept inspired by the book 3001: The Final Odyssey. This creation appears to the naked eye to be an impossible feat, but in reality it has its foundations in real physics.
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http://www.interiornews.com/2013/06/table-inspired-by-science-fiction
