A gift to Margareta Reeve!
Moose Coffee Table (Plywood, tennis string and glass, 32cm x 104cm x 86cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
*This table was made from plywood rest cuts I had flying around in my studio. I hate to waste things.
Looks like “Bullwinckle”. I still can’t believe that I live in Canada now. -Gotta make a “Boris and Natasha” table or chair!
“The belief in Geometry” Article about Dirk Marwig in the “Frankfurter Rundschau”, Kulturspiegel Nov. 1st 1996.
Before there was the INTERNET.
*This is the semi-side view of Klondike- here you can see very well the “positive-negative 3/4 flip/transition”.
It is said: The ‘good artist’ “copies” and the ‘great artist’ “steals”.
I say:
The good artist “copies”(imitates), the great artist “steals”(is inspired by) but the ‘Timeless Artist’ is the one who is copied and who inspires.
I’m writing this because to my annoyance my Dark Prince Chair was imitated. Poorly …and no credit given, of course.
DARK PRINCE CHAIR (Dirk Marwig, 2009)
-This chair was designed,constructed and finished by me (Dirk Marwig) in West Vancouver, Canada 2009. Dimensions: Total height: 100 cm , Seat height: 45 cm Width: 44.5 cm Total depth: 61 cm , Seat depth: 43 cm Construction: Recycled solid Walnut and Cherry wooden floor boards(1 inch thick),wooden dowels and biscuits, wood glue(no screws or nails) Color: Natural light walnut and reddish cherry Finish: Hand rubbed Danish oil. Extras: Supports up to 300 kg of dead weight (proven, with a really fat guy of same weight sitting on it!) Extremely comfortable.
The only wooden chair in the WORLD with this DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION (according to thorough research) -signed and dated,with the title(engraved) on the base (bottom) of chair.
I found this photo of “Das Unstabile Haus”(The Unstable House) from 1993 in an envelope today(August 17th 2018). Another forgotten drawing. To date it is in the collection of Klaus Fischer in Frankfurt, Germany.