Made in 1992, Michael Hurwitz’s Teacup Desk was a rebuke to the Eighties “energy desk,” that looming, large, impenetrable furnishings kind designed to specific an government’s standing and swagger.
Hurwitz had simply returned to Philadelphia from a six-month keep in Japan and had been impressed by the cultural civility in Japan, the place even easy enterprise encounters often started with an providing of tea. Arriving dwelling in a warmth wave and in want of an residence, Hurwitz discovered himself sweltering in a Philly actual property agent’s vestibule, making an attempt to transact enterprise via bulletproof glass with folks within the air-conditioned workplace.
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“I used to be in some extreme tradition shock,” he says. “These stark variations had been on my thoughts.” When he took up a pen to design his desk, Hurwitz was aiming to seize civility with a language of lightness and transparency. He created an open construction of tapered, bent-laminated ash ribs and overlaid them with brief sprigs of ash in a herringbone sample to impart a way of upward movement.
The rings on the desk’s base, apron, and round its prime are bent laminations of ash veneer. The desk’s prime is a mosaic of tiny marble tiles that Hurwitz and his assistants sliced with a tile noticed from mismatched marble scraps they scavenged from the dumpster at a marble countertop firm.
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