This week, Dutch architect Haiko Cornelissen introduces picNYC, a clever grass-topped dining table designed to bring the experience of picnicking into the urban home. The lightweight aluminum tabletop and legs form a solid framework for grass, soil, and stones, and owners can transform their dining spaces as they wish through variations in flowers, herbs, or even vegetables, not to mention usage, sunlight, and season. As the firm says: “Suddenly spilling water becomes a necessity instead of a problem, and wine glasses need coasters not to prevent ring stains but to avoid tumbling.”

Photographs by Iwan Baan and Alan Tansey, courtesy of Haiko Cornelissen Architecten.