Verhoeven Twins Lectori Salutem Desk Bronze

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Edition of 2 with 1 AP
2018
Bronze Coating, Polished Stainless Steel 316 (Yacht Quality)

The Lectori Salutem Desk is imbued with a symbolic value as it conveys the intimacies of artists Jereon Verhoeven’s own personal life.

While ostensibly a desk, produced through a combination of highly-skilled craftsmanship and carefully-programmed technical processes, the personal mark of the maker is strongly evident within the work as two silhouette portraits of the artist’s design collaborators, Joep Verhoeven and Judith de Graauw, are subtly shaped into its undulating surfaces.

Thus, the piece combines design functionality with an artistic rhetoric that subliminally communicates the importance of Verhoeven’s immediate creative circle.

The stainless steel frame comprises over 150 panels, intricately fitted together. The process can be seen through the open ended side of the desk, leaving the complex scaffolding on full display, contrasted against the smooth polished exterior.

Artist Biography

Joep and Jeroen Verhoeven (both born in 1976) live and work in Amsterdam. Known collectively as the Verhoeven Twins, their practice combines the fantastic with the practical: function and form transformed into mystical narratives, where the feather-light impressions of dreams become objects to see, touch, and use in everyday life.