Lotus

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The hemispheric ‘Lotus table’ with a flat top is resplendent in an all-over geometric pattern of pink, red, purple, blue and black. The table echoes the lotus-flower design of the ‘Bloom cabinet’ (2018).

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Exhibited with the Florescence suite of three pods that takes its name from the process or period of a plant’s flowering, the Lotus table shares their bloom-like geometric pattern. The luminosity of the straw marquetry mimics a flower’s sequential colour changes during anthesis.

 

Lotus / Table / 2023

Birch Ply, Custom Dyed Rye Straw

32 (h) × 120 (w) × 120 (d) cm

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Acquired for the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia (2023)

Images by Andrew Curtis.