Technology is now whipping along so fast that we are becoming inured to it. It’s a textbook case of diminishing returns: the latest digital wonder comes along, and is met by a collective shrug. Achieving escape velocity from this dynamic requires more than just technical genius. De Makers van seduced an automotive factory to collaborate with them on this project.  

Jeroen Verhoeven : 'Their factory machine's process, normally used to make ten thousand of the same thing was now used to make only one. We wanted to compress all this attention and put it into one thing.’ 

Each of the parts of the L.S desk is made by a 6axled robot machine, mainly used in the car industry. The robot arm is used as an expression of the sculptors mind. Every time Jeroen worked on it, shaping, cutting, a new line appeared in the drawing.These ‘sculpting scars' were left in as to show the process, later forming the 180 parts of which the desk consists.

'Hence the shape’, Jeroen says,’ a tribute to my two creative partners, Joep and Judith, I configured Lectori Salutem to incorporate the contours of their faces in the two moldings that bookend the desk’s top. It is like freezing a moment where everything was perfect and polished. For me it symbolises a moment in life where the perfect balance between myself, Joep and Judith existed.'

Part of Verhoeven’s THE CURIOUS IMAGE exhibition at Blain Southern
Art Miami Basel
Inquiries: Carpenters Workshop galleries
www.verhoeventwins.nl