Side Glass Table in Collaboration with furniture designer Kate Greenberg
We are both in awe of the wildness and
vastness of the natural world and we
often incorporate various elements of
our observations in our practice based
on different criteria and approaches. In
this collaboration we were looking into
phenomena of interaction between heat and
ice, and how the sharp edges of ice shards
often round up and soften when they meet
with molten matter. During the short period
of designing this side table, we learned so
much from each other and from our chosen
material, glass. The reaction we got from the
material continuously fed into the original
thought and gave us more information from
which to build upon.
As designers, we both derive concept from
studying natural landscapes, or at least
are inspired by them. The manufactured
part really comes into play with form. Our
built world regurgitates a history on how
humans have interpreted raw material as
useful, translated them to our scale, and
applied them to our sensory needs. Why
not continue to elaborate on that history,
and chop and screw those structures that
now contain so much meaning and memory,
so that we can understand ourselves a little
better and how we got here?
By condensing the moment when elements
from the inner earth collide, erode, bubble
up to the surface, and crystallize into shape,
we discover a history, as told by us.
— Sahra Jajarmikhayat & Kate Greenberg
©21st Century
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Side Glass Table in Collaboration with furniture designer Kate Greenberg
©21st Century
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