"Really Tall, Really Red Table"
My daughter Olivia was 5 when she titled this piece for me.
I made it for a solo exhibition I had in Nov 2007. It is cherry and curly maple veneer with shaded red lacquer, and with gold leaf on the underside. Because it's 8 feet tall and the underside was going to be more prominent than the top for a change, I wanted to call attention to this usually ignored area. I considered having it "decorated" with numerous wads of used chewing gum, but that starts a different dialogue, and… would be kinda gross.
It's exactly 4 times as high as my standard cocktail tables, so it seemed “sensible” to take the price of one of my standard cocktail tables and multiply by 4. If I started from scratch again, had to find 4 legs that were perfectly clear and dead straight etc etc, it would be a different price.
(Sold, Christmas 2010 to a very good home. Note that it has 4 inconspicuous tethers of fishing wire tied to each corner, just in case.)
I made it for a solo exhibition I had in Nov 2007. It is cherry and curly maple veneer with shaded red lacquer, and with gold leaf on the underside. Because it's 8 feet tall and the underside was going to be more prominent than the top for a change, I wanted to call attention to this usually ignored area. I considered having it "decorated" with numerous wads of used chewing gum, but that starts a different dialogue, and… would be kinda gross.
It's exactly 4 times as high as my standard cocktail tables, so it seemed “sensible” to take the price of one of my standard cocktail tables and multiply by 4. If I started from scratch again, had to find 4 legs that were perfectly clear and dead straight etc etc, it would be a different price.
(Sold, Christmas 2010 to a very good home. Note that it has 4 inconspicuous tethers of fishing wire tied to each corner, just in case.)