caspar bhalerao

Armed with a scalpel, cheap acrylic paints, black card, some scraps of paper, a roll of trace and a fine-liner; 35 Table Transformations interrogates and abstracts axonometric drawings of a table to re-conceptualise its design. The project draws upon the work of artist, Allan Wexler, and his transformations of the IKEA Steffan Chair to develop the flat-pack Standing Desk design. The methodology separates the design from its functional critera, testing the formal constraints and probing the spatial possibilities which arise, actively thinking through the bricoloage of splicing and reassembling.

I tried not to interpret these as representations of chairs. With each page I tried hard to only see abstract lines on a white paper. I dissected, decomposed, stretched, wrinkled, spliced, attached, sprayed, reproduced, sketched, cut, and pasted. My subconscious, my past work, my distractions, my caprices, my dreams poured from me and superimposed themselves into these pages. 

Allan Wexler, 54 Studies for Chair Transformations, 2007