Stick with me here, because even though this post is about a soccer table, we’re about to get hella scientific. In nature, there is a thing called a fullerene. A fullerene is any molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. These bits connect together to create hollow ball-like forms. The first fullerene to be discovered was the C60*, and it mimics the shape of a standard soccer ball exactly!

In naming this particularly nice soccer table “The Beautiful Game,” the designers at Gro Design took unto themselves the task of doing homage to the creator of everything, I think, because even in nature there can be found a football.

*The C60 is also known as the buckminsterfullerene, named after the creations of Buckminster Fuller, named by the discoverers of the C60, Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley. At this point I’ve also got to name a friend and former professor of mine Erik Brandt, without whom I might never have taken such an active interest in the connections between fussball (aka soccer) and graphic design (or the design of all creation, for that matter.)

Besides that little blurb, there’s not much that has to be said about this exquisite football table. It’s made to replicate the grandeur of the modern sporting arena, while on the playing field: “its atmospheric lighting and chromed metal players capture the excitement and drama of a classic sporting encounter.”

Each piece hand finished. By “skilled European craftsman.” What more could you ask for in life than that? How about asking for this table to be put into production? Yes you can have that too! But they ain’t cheap!

Designer: Gro Design. Part of the World Famous Design Junkies industrial design category. And don’t forget the sports!