Table designed by Robert Majkut will be taken out on auction in the prestigious auction house in Vienna – Dorotheum. Between October and November these object was presented during the exhibition “Between art & design” in Design Palais Vienna.
From the author:
The table is a symbolic piece of furniture. That is why it became the carrier of my idea. Designed, modeled and visualized entirely digitally, it started a process reverse to the civilization progress. As a digital virtual machine-cut model, it became an object of further typically craft work and processing. The hand-assembled and finished structure was crowned with a relief top whose spatial structure was used as a matrix for copies following which the carved top was promptly covered with a layer of resin to close the live process and prevent its further reproduction. Thus, a functional object became a tool and an artistic object at the same time, instrument but also a closed moment, forming its own, strong, separate meaning. It became a tool and an independent entirety. Independent but co-creating too. Existing both in the context of a manner of activity and specific relationship which occurs only in the context of mutual existence of things.
Technical description:
The structure of the finned base of the table is made of MDF board varnished black.The top of the table was digitally milled to the form of a relief, and varnished. The upper part of the relief was painted black and used as a matrix for copies.At the final stage of production, a few millimeters’ layer of epoxy resin was applied to the top to cover the whole relief and make a smooth, glossy surface of the top. The edges and sides of the top were varnished black. The table structure is monolithic and the craftsmanship techniques are of the nature of hand-made finishing.
