All Hands On Desk

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Unique Piece
Signed

Description
The desk “all hands on desk” was initially commissioned as a center piece for the exhibition „Projekt: Berggasse 19“, which took place in June 2024 in Vienna and proposed a contemporary interior concept for the historical client Sigmund Freud. In an almost neurotic fashion, the desk is designed to have many corners, to showcase Johanna Pichlbauer’s corner hands. She says about these: „Like many adults who share their furniture with a child, I’ve become sensitive to sharp edges and corners at a certain height and developed a reflex to cover them with my hands to avert drama. So here’s my attempt to translate these little acts of care into table accessories.“ Produced in the same workshop as the famous Auböck hands, Johanna Pichlbauer’s hands are humorous eyecatchers on the red desk. The desk, built by Clemens Schmidberger ist made of solid softwood with a dyed veneer toplayer. All surfaces and egdes were veneered by hand and the drawer fronts, although single pieces, offer a continuous veneer grain. It features eight drawers made of solid oak wood with state-of-the-art runner systems in different widths, ranging from 54,6 to 14,6 centimeters.

Dimensions
Length: 186
Width: 86
Height: 75

Materials
Solid Softwood veneered (veneer by Alpi, designed by Sottsass), mat lacquered, 24 Corner Pieces by Johanna Pichlbauer, cast brass metal (cast by Loderer), silvered