GooseGūss Side Table - Aluminum
The GooseGuss table was created for the East hotel.
JMA adapted the ruins of an old iron foundry to create East in Hamburg, Germany. Most of the design elements were informed by foundry forms and techniques.
While working on the hotel the artist lived in the Gänsemarkt, the old Goose Market. This suggested the gooseneck form of the table... “Guss Metal” in German translates to “cast metal”. "Guss" sounds like "goose".
PROCESS + MATERIALS
The form of the table was hand carved in maple. It was then cast in recycled metal alloys. The castings are then burnished or hand polished. Some variations have wood table tops.
DIMENSIONS
H 24 in. x W 12 in. x D 19 in.
H 60.96 cm x W 30.48 cm x D 48.26 cm
VARIATIONS
Metal variations:
Recycled magnesium-aluminum and recycled red-bronze.
Finishes: high polish, brushed or burnished.
Patinas may be applied to any of the finishes listed above.
Top variations:
Solid Maple and solid walnut.
Please inquire for options currently available.
DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
2004/2018-2019
“Cast metal” in German is “Guss Metal”. The foundry hotel is near the old Goose Market. The gooseneck form of the cast ("guss") mirror was hand carved maple, then cast in 92% recycled magnesium-aluminum alloy, hand-polished. Made in Chicago for 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 of the bronze and walnut GooseGūß Table by Monica Kass Rogers. Photos of aluminum GooseGuß table by John Stewart Clark. East Hotel photo by Doug Snower. Watercolor study by Jordan Mozer.
COLLECTION
Part of the HousePets Collection
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