THE TABLE AS A FESTIVAL

In a time of digital interactions, real-life moments need to be brought to the center of our daily lives. By revisiting an ancestral activity that is repeated everyday, this project underlines the endurance of that collective performance: Staging life in a Table. Both primitive and contemporary ritual, staging dining rituals represents tangible actions such as socialising, meeting and communicating. This project includes a series of iconic objects that, put on a top of table, solemnise the perpetuation (propagation/endurance) of this never-ending ritual. The banquet is the ultimate intimate moment of the domestic domain, as it celebrates special occasions of life. The moments of conviviality are most of the times commemorated around a table. Events such as anniversaries, birthdays or any other festivity are perpetually ritualised in domestic spaces. Tables are permanent stages, that perform the acts of sharing food with other human beings. “The table as a Festival” solemnises the liturgy of conviviality. Small objects staged on a table became pocket Architecture shaping an utopian feast for a Lilliputian cityscape.

TABLE (of) ELEMENTS

The COLUMN is the basic archetypical element of Architecture and a perpetual icon often used as a celebrative monument. (FLOWER VASE)

The ARCH is one of the most recognisable elements of the ancient architecture. It has been systematically used and developed with ancient Rome and often built as monuments and entrances to celebrate. An abstract gate to enter in the Festival small world. (BOTTLE)

The abstract pure form of the DOME, represents the essence of celebrative buildings. The content is hidden inside its pedestal but revealed once the globe is up. (SALT CONTAINER)

The CIRCUS in ancient time was the largest venue for Ludi, a spectacular multi-venue celebration with flamboyant parades which marked the purpose of the games. (TABLE CENTER PIECE)

The CIRCLE is a timeless form and an universal symbol with extensive meanings. Encircling the space as a balanced principle, the shape stands in non obvious way. (CANDLE HOLDER)