Artist and designer Jeroen Verhoeven has created a shiny new steel desk, which looks like a medieval time machine from certain angles. The desk is all shiny because it has been created from highly polished steel. The desk, named Lectori Salutem, will be showcased at London Gallery, Blain Southern in The United Kingdom.
This hand crafted beauty has been designed in such a manner that it plays “smoke and mirror” with the eye of the viewer, meaning it gives out different design features when looked from different angles. For instance, when the desk is viewed from certain angles, two silhouettes can be clearly seen. These two silhouettes depict Verhoeven’s twin brother Joep and Judith de Graauw, who worked with him to create the Dutch design house Demakersvan.
One side of the table has been spliced in two in order to showcase the engineering and beauty of the desk from within. The design of the Lectori Salutem showcases a very different kind of a design process where highly skilled craftsmanship and a highly complex industrial process were combined into one creation. Earlier one such creation of Verhoeven, the Cinderella Table, was taken away for permanent collection by Victoria and Albert Museum in London and by the Museum of Modern Art in NY.
Via: Design.nl
