the office
THE OFFICE is a bureau for two, designed specifically for the Museum of Nothing.
The bureau is constructed as a place of work and also as an incomplete system of thinking. Like other parts of the Museum of Nothing, its potential lies in what is projected into it: the promise of ideas that might fill its empty frames and vacant spaces.
A source of inspiration for the piece is the following paragraph by the Danish existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard:
the office (2015)
70cm x 90cm x 150cm
teak, brass, leather, felt, rubber, ceramic
‘A thinker erects an immense building, a system, a system which embraces the whole of existence and world history etc. – and if we contemplate his personal life, we discover to our astonishment this terrible and ludicrous fact, that he himself personally does not live in this immense high-vaulted palace, but in a barn alongside it, or in a dog kennel, or at the most a porter’s lodge. If one were to take the liberty of calling his attention to this by a single word, he would be offended. For he has no fear of being under a delusion, if only he can get the system completed – by means of the delusion.’
Søren Kierkegaard
