BUILDING AN OBSESSION

This wasn’t an “official” project but it still had broken timelines, escalating budgets, failed designs, awful project management, difficult client. So, a Lego coffee table. How hard could it be?

 

MY LEGO WEIGHS A TON

First prototype: the top and bottom slabs weighed 45lbs each…too big, too long, too heavy.
Second prototype: everything weighed slightly less but collapsed during an apartment move.
Third prototype: salvaged, strengthened, reduced weight with ‘Lego sheets’ that slipped inside the frame.

 

THE STATS

18 months.
Two apartments.
Three prototypes.
One confused dog.
Four Pick a Brick visits.
Six 100lb bulk box buys off eBay.
50,000+ bricks.
85lbs weight.
Hundreds of hours.
Zero glue.
One functioning table.