The Art of the Periodic Table
The Wooden Periodic Table.
A wooden periodic table desk with an engraved tile for every element and a space for samples of the elements was built by Theodore W. Gray, B.S. chemist by training and cofounder of Wolfram Research.
The Periodic Picnic Table
Two students, Nazila Alimohammadi and Anna Clark, at Wake Forest University created a picnic table in the shape of the periodic table for a public arts project which had painted tiles for each element.
The above work have also been reported in Chemical & Engineering News, September 22, 2003, page 32.