Robert Stadler PDT Coffee Table #2
Price on request
Edition of 8 plus 4 AP
2017
Limestone
190 x 42 x 91 cm
74.8 x 16.5 x 35.8 in
PDT stands for Pierre De Taille, which is French for Ashlar, stone worked into a square block for building with. It refers to a traditional way of making architecture following a what-you-see-is-what-you-get process. Blocks of stone left over from an imaginary building site appear to have been worn down to new shapes on a domestic scale: melancholic traces of an architectural past. These limestone remnants are carved out by a digitally controlled milling machine.
Artist
Robert Stadler
Robert Stadler was born in Vienna in 1966. The designer has always been drawn to the details of objects and the narratives they evoke. He studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan before attending the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris in the late 1980s. He has continued to work in Paris ever since.