In 2001 I decided to appropriate his design to deconstruct it: I tried to put into “three-dimensional” practice that estrange feeling behind the drawing series titled “Comedores, cocinas y salas de estar”, in which several juvenile characters practice sex plays in a domestic environment. The singularity in the drawings is that those interiors, taken from interior architecture magazines, and therefore a role model in representation of a status, are incomplete. A concept of INCOMPLETION that can be easily linked to IMBALANCE. And because of that, there seemed to be sense in choosing a table conceived under a functionalist and rationalist point of view and removing a leg (in one version) or redrawing a leg (in the other version) and therefore destroying the particular symmetry of the original table. In both versions I added some painted figures to turn this treason into a caricature.
Once these versions came back from their debut as works of art, I decided to turn them back into dining tables. To do that I restored the legs to their original form, but I had to remove the upper reinforcements and destroyed one of the formal characteristics of Albers’ work. Given their poor performance as tables, I decided to turn then into uncomfortably designed seats.