Ingo Maurer’s LED Table was on display at the ICFF and at the Ingo Maurer opening party last night. I can’t stop staring at this table. I think its partly due to the “oooh sparkly” effect of a Xmas tree, and also because I can’t figure out where the LEDs are getting their electricity from. It?s quite a startling effect. Although they are wedged between two sheets of glass, the LEDs appear to be floating in thin air. Ingo Maurer’s website says: 278 white LEDs per table top, emitting light on both sides. 230/125 volts, 48 volts DC. INVISIBLE LIVE PARTS. There are tiny transparent wires embedded between the 2 sheets of glass, connecting the LEDs. The lights can be dimmed and even turned off if you suddenly want your LED table to look like a regular glass table again.
The table comes in white, blue or red light, but the white (pictured here) looks the least like the interior of a 6th street Indian restaurant.
For more about Ingo Maurer, read Design Boom’s interview >
This table was produced by glas platz, from germany. The LED-glass is called powerglass®. Current maximum dimensions are 2800 mm x 1200 mm. Usable not just for tables. Basicly everywhere there is glass you could have powerglass®.
Check out the homepage:
http://www.glas-platz.de/powerglass/en/technologie.html
could we see the table close or more picturs….
interest to know the price for 4/8 table….
thanks
I have looked closely at a sample of this technology. It loks like there is only one layer of conductive film. The electrical layer of the film seems to be cut (maybe with a laser) to produce a circuit. the LEDs are then attached to this rudimentary circuit, conductors added to the edge of the sheet and then laminated between sheets of glass.
I would like to have offer for the glass. Can the glass be cut to required size? what are the glass thickness available? I am glass dealer. Also i would like to know the principle and theory of its functioning and process by which it has been constructed. It is my acameadic intrest. I hope it would be explained to me.
Love the desk. What is the price?
Thanks!
Jeanine Naviaux
858.583.2940
To whom it may concern:
I am currently an architect based in New York, with a large-scale project.
I am very interested in your company’s products. Can you
please send me a full set of your catalogue and any other information
that you may have.
Thank you for your time,
Li Townsend
Landbase Management, LLC
322 Woodbury Road
Woodbury, NY 11797
wow it is very bright idea who invented this led glass?
does work for showroom walls?
Daniel was not wright: The led?s were bonded to the translucent metallization of glass. Usually Indium Tinn Oxide. But today, everybody may purchase Led doted translucent foils for the lamination in glass or acrylics: http://www.sun-tec.ch, info@sun-tec.ch
This would look really cool as aback drop for an entertainment center….
I kind of want to see the table with blue or red LEDs. Where and When can I get one?
Nice idea
Look at mine 
http://autograf.asp.gda.pl/?ot=re&id_dziela=1804
Maybe somebody wants to sponsore this project?
Ingo does some very cool things with LEDs.
BTW – go check this out (shameless plug
http://store.thecrucible.org/product_info.php?cPath=1_11&products_id=547&osCsid=9061e31bdfb0be9bacac210e3a4980a8
Wow, just wow. LEDs are too much fun. Very creative, and very entertaining. Please keep up the great work.
Any [artistic] excuse to make use of LEDs is fine in my book. I hope, however, these aren’t 2,000 mCD LEDs since it would probably collectivly blind any future owner.
Beautiful though.
Okay Mr. Smartypants – I didn’t mean “invisible” in the magical sense of the word, just that the wires are so small and transparent that you can’t see them. But thanks for the more detailed explanation!
“Tiny invisible wires”, eh? There are simply electrically conductive layers of transparent polymer sandwiched between the glass layers to connect the contacts of the LEDs. Tends to be easier to wire up than using intuition and guesswork to solder invisible wires