WANT to get away from a crashing bore at Christmas dinner? Or escape from an
unruly toddler who’s flicking food at you? Then Paolo Rais may have the answer:
a dining table whose chairs keep moving so that nobody spends more than ten
minutes sitting opposite anyone else.
It was while sitting at a wedding dinner that Rais, a civil engineer from
Lugano, Switzerland, realised that the traditional rectangular dining table
meant he could only talk to a few friends seated around him. “So I wondered how
I could help people talk to more of the people around a long…
