Cosmic Desk │ 2021

The essence and characteristic of this solid wood desk, rigorously absent of right angles, is that there is a hidden draw carved in an enormous sphere of solid pear wood that slots into the surface of the desk, supporting the desk itself. The other characteristic, of no less importance, is the intentional absence of right angles, allowing the shape and the material (the walnut top and the pear sphere) to be perceived as weightless, as if they were suspended in pure space.
The design philosophy we are accustomed to, is viewing the tree (wood) as an element of the earth, rooted to the earth, with the limits given by its being on the earth. In reality, the etheric energy of the tree goes beyond this by nourishing itself with the sun, the stars, and the cosmos. The tree stretches itself towards the light. It’s verticality, like our verticality, and arms (branches) that reach towards the light of the stars of our cosmos does not happen by chance. It’s this subtle, invisible, etheric life force, that inspired me to express the wood like a force- a spherical form that travels in the cosmos. As a planet with an immensely heavy mass appears weightless to our eyes, like so, this sphere of wood that weighs 365kg feels weightless to us.

The tabletop is slender and without corners and effortlessly supports the mass with solidness and stability. It almost seems ethereal. Resting our hands on a wood desk or wood drawer seen as celestial sphere, like the merging of sky and earth, makes our thoughts – if we so wish – brighter, lighter, able to take flight, less tied and bound to matter.