Sanne's 3-in-1 Table Turns Dining Into Pool and Ping Pong

Sanne's Department of Play has built a single table that serves as a dining table, a full pool table, and a ping pong table — priced from $7,500 to $12,500 and positioned as collectible design furniture rather than sports equipment.

The premise addresses a simple spatial problem. A regulation pool table occupies roughly the square footage of a small bedroom. A ping pong table demands its own stretch of floor so players can swing a paddle without hitting a wall. A dining table has to look presentable to guests. Most households that want all three simply lack the rooms.

The 3-in-1 Table works through swappable surfaces. Lift the top and the dining table reveals a full pool table. Swap the surface again and it becomes ping pong, complete with a cane-and-leather net. One object replaces three furniture purchases and three separate footprints.

Sculpture first, game table second

The design departs from the standard combo-table formula. The typical market offering, according to the source, is a pool table with a plywood lid bolted on top, priced around $800 and, in the writer's words, looking "like sports equipment wearing a costume."

Sanne took the opposite approach. A scalloped edge — a repeating rounded bump pattern — runs around the perimeter and down the legs. It reads as a sculptural gesture first, and only secondarily reveals itself as the ball guard for ping pong. As Yanko Design's write-up puts it: "Function followed form here instead of the other way around." In its dining configuration, under a chandelier, the table gives away nothing about its second life.

The materials reinforce that positioning. The base is a deep walnut tone set against lighter ash detailing, closer to mid-century furniture than rec room equipment. The pool felt is rust orange instead of the standard casino green — a choice the source frames as the difference between a table that argues with a room's décor and one that sits at home in it.

The details nobody asked for

The accessories received the same treatment. The cue rack stands as its own scalloped tower matching the table, rather than leaning against a wall in a canvas cover. The ping pong paddles are hand-painted with leopards and floral motifs. The ball tray is dovetailed like a keepsake box. As the source notes: "Nobody asked for the ball tray to look nice. They built it that way anyway."

Pricing places the crafted-to-order version around $12,500, with a limited floorstock release closer to $7,500. That cost bracket matters to how the piece is meant to be read: less "we made a fun table," more "we made a serious piece of furniture that happens to also be extremely fun," in the source's phrasing. That distinction is what allows it to stand in a home with real art on the walls rather than only in a basement.

The game room moves into the living room

The table reflects a broader shift the source identifies: play furniture migrating from a separate destination into the main living space. A pool table tucked in a basement gets used four times a year. A pool table that is also the dinner table gets used constantly, almost by accident — because nobody has to decide to go play. They just have to clear the plates.

Designer: Sanne's Department of Play. Photography by Vitali Grishkov.