The reading table, which was independently designed and built, uses text to create a contrast, both physically and semantically, between the written word when the concept of an alphabet was first invented and the modern day Latin script much of the world has come to use today.
This table was exhibited at the Salone Satellite at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan in April 2012.
It also placed second in the 2011-2012 cycle of the Sharjah Islamic Bank Student Research Awards.
The table began conceptually as a tablet with the Phoenician alphabet engraved in it, drawing from the way the Phoenicians wrote. The form of the tablet the folded out in the middle to support a new ‘modern’ tablet with Latin script protruding from it. This juxtaposition showcases the transition in knowledge from the primitive era to modern day in the context of writing.
Student work done with Bill Sarnecky and Amir Berbic.
