White Side Table, from The Silent Village Collection

See more objects with the tag furniture, domestic interiors, sculptural, fishing, table, intricate, hooks, narrative, nautical, assemblage, functional, furniture design, transformative.

Object Timeline

	We acquired this object.
2013	Work on this object began.
2016	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

White Side Table, from The Silent Village Collection

This is a White Side Table. It was designed by Brynjar Sigurðarson and made for Galerie Kreo.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Galerie Kreo as part of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

It is dated 2013. Its medium is ash wood, metal, krion, ropes, nylon strings, feathers, fur, leather, printed fabrics, chains and hooks.

When creating his furniture pieces, Sigurðarson explores the dialogue between culture and the environment. For his Silent Village Collection (2014) Sigurðarson traveled to Vopnafjörður, a small fishing village in his native Iceland, where he learned a variety of making methods from the local people. Sigurðarson incorporated his experience into this side table by using fishing nets, intricate knots, feathers, fur, and hooks to replicate Iceland's wild nature.

It is credited Courtesy of Galerie Kreo.

High Shelf, from The Silent Village Collection

High Shelf, from The Silent Village Collection
ash wood, metal, krion, ropes, nylon strings, feathers, fur, leather, printed....
Courtesy of Galerie Kreo.
45.2015.2

A fine dark red encircling fishing net made of machine manufactured tetoron polyester which consists of pairs of twisted threads that connect to form the net by crossing through each other in a series of repeating diamonds. The net is folded in a series of rippling bulges to show the strength and lightness of the polyester yarn and the fact that it is entirely knotless. In the mid-lower right is a small black rectangle that is filled with multi-colored squares of white, deep blue, orange, brown, green, peach, red, grey, pale blue, yellow, purple, magenta, lime, lilac, cyan, gold and turquoise.

Fishing Net, Encircling Fishing Net
polyester.
Gift of Toray Industries, Inc..
2003-22-1

Drawing, Men Fishing with a Rod and Net
graphite on paper.
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
1912-12-227

Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Drawing, Night Fishing Scene
brush and oil on cardboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-1347

Drawing, Table
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1040

Bag (Peru)
agave.
1954-139-5

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 63.5 × 48 × 33.5 cm (25 in. × 18 7/8 in. × 13 3/16 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/77CW8/
Accession Number 45.2015.1
Object ID 69193891