GooseGūss Table Mirror
The GooseGuss tabletop mirror was created for the East Hotel in Hamburg Germany, a boutique hotel and restaurant which reimagined the ruins of an old iron foundry into a destination boutique hotel.
“Cast metal” in German is “Guss Metal”. While working on the hotel, Mozer lived in the old Goose Market: this mirror has a gooseneck form and is cast in recycled metals.
JMA used foundry processes and imagery in the East Hotel project to preserve the spirit of the foundry and evoke the feeling of discovery experienced by a Westerner in Asia for the first time.
PROCESS + MATERIALS
This cast, goose-neck mirror was created in Chicago by hand carving maple. The sculpture was then cast in recycled alloys and hand-polished.
DIMENSIONS
H 26 in. x W 12.5 in. x D 11.5 in.
H 66.04 cm x W 31.75 cm x D 29.21 cm
VARIATIONS
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Metal variations: magnesium-aluminum and red-bronze.
Finishes: high polish, brushed or burnished.
Patinas may be applied to any of the finishes listed above.
DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
2004
“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, 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: Photos of the mirror by Tom Rossiter. Photos of East Hotel by Doug Snower. Pavilion Exhibit photos by Chloe Mozer.
COLLECTION
Part of the HousePets Collection
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