Table for vine tasting

TABLE À DÉGUSTATION DU VIN

Work assembled into a module (removable) on wheels with brakes: A small folding table, a column adorned with a golden vine leaf, which opens for the storage of six bottles and the housing of a container collecting the wine that would be rejected into a basin (made of copper plated in gold) located inside the capital of the column; this same capital is crowned with a vase with handles, topped by a sculpted group depicting: Bacchus standing with two small faunesses gazing at him below, then on the left side Pan playing the flute on rocks, followed by two children— a little girl on a barrel and a little boy touching a vine leaf placed behind Bacchus.

The whole is composed in a style reflecting the spirit of 1825 – 1830. It serves as the setting for a narrative around wine that gradually transitions from the functional, towards the decorative, and finally moves towards the symbolic, the mythological, which then becomes embedded in the ambiguity of the inside, the outside, and the dynamic. All of this is encapsulated in the sculpted group at the crowning, which intertwines with the spirit of wine.

I also wanted to create a piece that explores different states of matter (much like wine) and three colors:
–Wood: vegetal, alive, and whose lifespan is, in a way, relatable to our own scale.

– Metal: gold, gilded wood, which has the primary quality of being resistant to time.
– Diaphanous: I wish to create the sculpted group for the crowning in porcelain; this would evoke fragility, much like the realm of ideas, of the spirit – as is the delicate approach required for addressing very fine wines.

Pierre Kauffmann