Impatia Redefines Game Tables with their Scivolo Shuffleboard Table

Impatia has redefined gaming furniture by replacing heavy, bulky wood elements with daring, sleek, and modern glass and metal counterparts. It can be difficult to bring together a graceful space with the more common designs of game tables, especially when one eschews the classic, darker, wood-centric designs for game or recreation rooms. Enter the stunning Scivolo Shuffleboard Table, a unique shuffleboard table that’s proof that fun and diversion are not incompatible with cutting-edge design.

The Scivolo (‘scivolo’ means ‘slide’ in Italian) is the most recent project from the R&D department of Impatia, an Italian firm whose mission is to unite the worlds of fun and high-concept design. To this end, they’ve recreated many classic table games in drop-dead gorgeous reimaginings. The Scivolo debuted at this year’s Milan Design Fair where it stopped a lot of people in their tracks and sparked much discussion. It’s the sort of piece that will give you pause if you don’t expect to see it—a definitive head-turner.

The Scivolo and Why We Love It

At first glance, the uniqueness of this shuffleboard table is apparent. It is the first shuffleboard playing surface done in glass. Beyond that, it also features glass legs, a slim wood profile, and an Alcantara playing surface—it’s minimalist and supremely uncomplicated, clean lines and flawless materials combined in well-balanced proportions.

Seen from the side, the Scivolo seems to float on the glass supports, which are made from extra clear, low-iron glass. The wood frame is in walnut for a gorgeous, luxurious texture and grain that’s a perfect counterpoint to the clear glass. 

The large presence of the table is minimized by the use of glass, which maximizes the flow of light and makes this table perfect for a contemporary room.

With all this design work and unusual uses of materials, it is still informed by function—in this case, supporting users playing a game of shuffleboard. Impatia, in their description of the table, praise shuffleboard as a game “renowned for its ability to transcend barriers and unite people.”

Part of a Great Tradition

We’re excited to see what Impatia will do next: the Scivolo continues a 10-year effort by Impatia, which includes the stunning Filotto Billiards Table as well as the Tuttuno Multi-Game Table, a collection that unites a passion for play with world-class design.

Impatia’s products have an unlikely, unique, and one-of-a-kind presence that proves that game room design doesn’t necessarily need to be informed by history alone. That kind of progressive design, testing the limits of the familiar, and using unexpected materials in new ways, is exactly what makes us at Sklar such admirers of the Italian design industry.