Really Tall, Really Red Table
I used my 5 year old daughter's style of labeling things to come up with a title for this piece. I made it for a solo exhibition I had in Nov 2007. It is cherry and curly maple veneer with shaded red lacquer, and with gold leaf on the underside. Because it's 8 feet tall and the underside was going to be more prominent than the top for a change, I wanted to call attention to this usually ignored area. I considered having it "decorated" with numerous wads of used chewing gum, but that starts a different dialogue, and would be kinda gross.
I still have it in our dining room, which luckily has a 9 1/2 foot ceiling. It's exactly 4 times as high as my standard cocktail tables, so if you want it, yes, 4X$. Which, with the optional $50 shelf, $50 premium finish... ummm, so that's (250 + 50 + 50) X4 = $1400 and it's yours. Bargoon. If I started from scratch again, had to find 4 legs that were perfectly clear and dead straight etc etc, it would be a different price.
(Sold, Christmas 2010 to a very good home.)
