tack end table

14 tack end table

date: 2017 type: table size: 410 x 410 x 410 mm material: Hand-blackened steel designed by: Red Hook, Brooklyn producer: Uhuru studio, Brooklyn

What exactly is so interesting about minimalist shapes? Why

should it be desirable to go back to simple geometric forms

and archaic materials when we have the broadest variety of

skills, technologies and matter at hand?

Reduc ing an object to it s purest for m often re veal s the

exte r nal a s much a s the piece it self and , in relief, connect s

us to our surrounding environment.

Which means that we not only express our taste by choos

ing a specif ic t y pe of interior, we also shine a new light on

ourselves, our behavior and the cultural environment we live

in. Tack End Tables are part of a whole series of objects made

out of hand-blackened steel and created with Donald Judd’s

art and Tadao Ando’s architecture in mind. But even as one

piece, this tiny table, makes such a prominent entrance when

placed in a living room, that the concepts underlying Uhuru’s

design suddenly become more than obvious. The way this—in

no way simple—geometric shape ref lects the light, changes

its impression seen from different angles, from every per

spective taken and at the same time makes any ornament

around it seem more than tacky, is very much due to the con

sistent and forceful reduction of lines and use of material.