The East Table was created for JMA’s conversion of a decrepit foundry in Hamburg Germany into the East Hotel.
To evoke the spirit of the old foundry, most design components Mozer's team created for the project were informed by metal casting forms and techniques.
This piece was exhibited in the Chicago Art Institute's Young Chicago show and is part of the museum's permanent collection.
PROCESS+MATERIALS
Hand-carved wood forms were cast in recycled magnesium-aluminum alloy. The castings were hand polished. Made in Chicago.
DIMENSIONS
H 30 in. x Dm 13 in.
H 76.2 cm x Dm 33.02 cm
VARIATIONS
Please inquire for metal and finish options currently available
DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
Created in 2002-2004 for East Hotel
“Guss Metal”, pronounced “goose metahl” in English, means “cast metal” in German. The stool is named for the homonym “goose” and also for the daughter of JMA partner Jeff Carloss. The form was carved in Wisconsin maple, cast in cast recycled aluminum-magnesium alloy and hand polished. Made in Chicago. This table is in many private collections and part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
East Hotel, Hamburg Germany
East Hotel is the reincarnation of the bombed out ruins of an old foundry in Hamburg, Germany as a boutique hotel featuring Asian-fusion menus.
DONUTS
The hotel’s center in an indoor/outdoor public space, a donut hole, created by sculpting brick and concrete out of the muscular foundry structure and excavating 24’ of earth from the yard separating the foundry ruins and the new guest room building…
Every detail of East’s architecture, art and design conveys the spirit of the old foundry and the surreality of a westerner’s first immersion in the east.
If architecture in frozen music (danke Göthe) thn ornament is the melody. It is the underlying concept which transforms structural rhythms, spatial and material harmonics and details into a meaningful personality which can create an emotional connection…the melody of architecture is its soul, the spirit of the place.
CREDITS
Photos; portrait of the table by Tom Rossiter. East Hotel room photo by Doug Snower. Oak Street Gallery photo by Ms. Archer. Watercolor studies for East Hotel by Jordan Mozer.