Description/
An edition of 8. A coffee table’s elegant, highly-polished surface ripples as it reaches its edges, forming itself a bulbous, rabid ring and knotty feet, like a Noguchi run amok. Its slight frisson of danger at once beckons and repels. There’s something untamed and untameable about it, as if at any moment it’s liable to get up and flee the room. Much of the inlay forms are adapted from the Celestial Alphabet, a vowelless typography invented by a German heretic in the 16th century to communicate with angels and so illegible nothing was ever written with it. Gander’s use of an unusable occult language transforms his pieces into portals for unknowable rituals—inscrutability-as-ornament. In their veiled mysticism, their capacity for infinite meanings becomes irresistible.
Brecht Wright Gander
designer
Date/
2022
Color/
Brown
Edition/
Limited
Exclusive/
Yes
Material/
Wood
Dimension/
50.0 x 21.0 x cm (19.7 x 8.3 x in)
Style/
Handcrafted
Heritage/
USA
Ships from/
USA
Made to order/
Yes
