Going Bananas
A game of pool will never be the same again. Not with the Banana-shaped pool table at least. Mostly because your usual way of calculating the angles before taking a shot wouldn’t work.
But still!
Purling London’s outrageous Banana Pool Table (US$15,000, S$20,000), handmade in England by master craftsman Cleon Daniel, will add a layer of complexity to your pool games. With a solid ash frame, rails and hand-turned table legs, its professional slate bed comes covered in yellow billiard cloth made from pure Hainsworth wool. Dimensions, of course, are a 100 per cent different from what you’d expect from a typical pool table. It stands approximately at 260cm (L), 170cm (W), with a height of 80cm.
The pool table also comes with Aramith 10 pool balls, two pool cues, a triangle and cue chalk. The usual black 8 ball is of course replaced by -you guessed it- a yellow ball. And unlike the everyday table with eight pockets, this just has four (one at each end, and two in the middle). So winning is anybody’s game, really.
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Talk about a huge learning curve. Maybe the shape will drive you bananas (, maybe you’ll be hooked. Well, there’s only one way to find out. Grab a bunch of friends and have a go.