Designer Brooke Davis reminds us that you don't have to be showing in Milan for your furniture designs to get a little love from Core. Insofar as her most recent project, "Tablescape No. 1," is as much a work of art as it is an article of furniture, the 58”×90” dining table also marks the intersection of sculptural craft and contemporary fabrication processes. Where CNC tooling is typically associated with consistency for mass production or precision for, say, hardware-less joinery, Davis hopes to "push the boundary of CNC as a tool" with "Tablescape No. 1," a three-month labor of love that required some 100 hours of hand sanding to remove every tool mark:
This remarkable design pushes the boundary of using the CNC as a tool. Davis's personal process involves using drawing, clay and 3D CAD computer modeling interchangeably until the designs are finished. Her latest designs embrace using the CNC as part of the production process but also allow for hand manipulation afterwards making each piece unique.
The design itself evokes everything from a topographical map to a Georgia O'Keeffe painting, from Lucio Fontana's slit canvases to a fantastical door. Davis herself refrains from indicating her inspiration, noting that "an object should beg to be discovered, for when one is enamored with an object, it transcends words."
