COLANDER TABLE, DESIGNED 2009

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DANIEL ROHR
COLANDER TABLE, DESIGNED 2009
from an edition of 8, plus 2 prototypes 2 artist's proofs
signed and numbered
hand polished milled aluminium and plate glass
37 ½ in. (95 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide; 28 ½ in. (72 cm.) deep

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist.

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Lot Essay

Winner of the Country Life/LAPADA “Object of the Year" Completion, 2011.

This table is the culmination of a year of experimentation with aluminium to achieve an optical illusion by deleting both space and material. By creating empty spaces between the materials, the plate glass surface and the bowl of the table, and within the material itself, the 909 holes, the artist has created an illusion. When viewed from certain angles, the glass surface disappears becoming one with the mirror polished aluminium below and objects placed on the surface appear to float. The legs too take up the theme with their vertically milled lines deduced from the pattern of holes in the table; the light and shadow effect produced gives them the appearance of glass.

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