Table #5
FredriksonStallard
TABLE #5, a storage table made of museum quality laser cut jet black acrylic, borrows its appearance from the crude and utilitarian craftsmanship to be found in wooden shipping crates. The details, however, disclose yet another one of FredriksonStallard’s puns on industrial logic.
Date of Design
2002
Size
990 mm L, 355 mm W, 381 mm H
Material
Acrylic, maple
Edition
300
TABLE #5 is laser cut and flawlessly polished. Any mark of assembly is removed, the wooden grain gives way to a perfect gloss. Instead of instructing the user on how to handle the piece, the pictograms - recessed deeply into the sides - as well as two raw sawn blocks of maple, on which the crate rests, merely hint towards the piece’s roots. What strikes as blunt pastiche has little in common with the superficial irony of, say, the early eighties (of today). A fine-tuned and reserved understatement leaves room for interpretation.
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