German design studio llot llov will be bringing their new side tables 'Elias and Son' to Interieur 2010 Design Biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium later this month.

The table is made from interlocking beech wood and coloured glass elements with a mirror recessed into the inner frame.

But there's a bit more to it than meets the eye...

"The call was to design a new furniture. Thus we asked ourselves, what is currently engaging our world, what makes us happy, interests us?" say the studio.

"While we were brainstorming we thought of an exhibition in Berlin that has been much discussed - the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson exhibition at the Martin Gropius-Bau in Berlin. He focuses on the process of perception. His work disorientates with the help of small interventions."

Viewed from afar, the mirrors which are attached within the inner frames make it appear as though you can see through the rods. The facing struts are mirrored so that the viewer thinks of it as the one further away and accepts the illusion unnoticed.

Only when you get closer, you notice your own reflection and see the trick.

"This is the moment we wanted to design - a moment of surprise, of realisation, of understanding and childlike happiness to have discovered the attempted deceit".

We think they've achieved this; and made a very nice piece of furniture in the process.