Glas Italia, on the other hand, probably didn't need convincing; the panels of Lissoni's colorfully striped tables for the company (above) are made of glass that has been rescued from the factory floor.
Out into bowls on the starry, striped tables pour the locally made potato chips we've found.
Gingerbread is on the menu and the audience sit round a striped wood table or perch on sideboards, patting and squeezing uncooked ginger mixture.
Moss has taken its warehouse sale online, with a changing selection of products (some pre-owned) discounted up to 50 percent (the Birillo white leather bar stool by Joe Colombo, regularly $2,945, is $1,100; the Striped Tavolino table by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, originally $720, is $360), mossonline.com.com
Seymour's isn't much to look at — it's just a shed in a gravel parking lot with two red-and-white-striped picnic tables in the back — but the food will leave you satisfied without emptying your wallet.
"Hotel Seeblick," which measures about 6 by 11 feet, has six generic young people with somber expressions sitting or standing about, some smoking, in a rustic cafe with an emphatically grained wood floor, green striped walls and tables with red-and-white-checked table clothes.
The décor is Art Deco, too — zebra-striped chairs, black table linens and a long low bar shimmering at the far end.
We sat in the sunny front room, set up like a nineteen-fifties dinette, with a Camaro-red formica table and striped red and white vinyl chairs.
Here, guests can lounge on bright, candy-striped sofas where tables feature quirky sunken fruit bowls.
They looked on in awe as a sofa disappeared under a Murphy bed that swung down from the wall, as a museum guide turned a striped ottoman into a coffee table and stools, as a chair became a stepladder and as a flat-screen TV slid to reveal shelves full of toys.
The curved walls now had striped tan wallpaper, and the coffee table had been replaced by a walnut-and-mica table that, Obama noted, would resist stains from water glasses.
