The sketch for a table with 4 chairs, not 2 dimensional but 3 dimensional, not made with a pen but with scaffolding material, was a project visualized for the city of Berlin because of its special history and its position in Europe and the world.
I thought about building a table 100 x 100 meters wide and 70 meters high with befitting chairs. The idea was to have the construction built outdoors by students from vocational schools and NATO army recruits from all over Europe working together. The furniture pieces would be lifted up by 4 large military cranes.
I visited Berlin frequently to find out how this idea could be realized there and also to work on a presentation. For the presentation lots of pictures were needed to show how immense the project would be in perspective. To make them, I decided to walk every day from a different station on the ring line towards Alexanderplatz.
The first presentation for this project took place in 1998 at the Goethe Institute in Rotterdam.
In talking to people I concluded that the time was not ripe for a project like this and it never got off the ground. The making of the pictures became a goal in itself. In the near future there will be sufficient material for a book.
