A Quick Study

January, 2007

THE CLASSIC Mobius strip is a surface / with only one side. (Think about it for a second.) The Moebius Table from DesignWithin Reach ($448, dwr ^"».com) is no less beguiling, using a four-sided (that is, one-sided) Mbbius form for its beech wood base. An ant crawling on its surface would have to make four full trips around it before arriving back where it started. Topological geometry has never been so sexy.

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