Coffee table, lectern, stool, reference library, magazine stand, TV or notebook table. Konstantin Grcic’s metal table series is open to a wide variety of uses and interpretations. The appeal of these cut and folded objects lies in the contrast between the hard, industrial material and the almost playful forms, whose folds look as effortless as if made out of paper. The small, powder-coated metal sculptures are available e.g. in deep black, oxide red
or cream (special colours can be ordered as well). They give the impression of a kind of puzzle made out of colours and spatial geometries, steel origami with displaced surfaces. The recourse to straight lines and mostly right angles quotes classical Modernism, but is far more complex here than in Herbert Hirche’s 1950s Barwagen. In fact, the shelf elements remind one a bit of the utopian sculptures of the Russian constructivists from the 1920s. But perhaps they also allude to the burnished metal skin of the car parked in front of our house. Just as we form and invent words out of letters, the Diana tables can be grouped in various ways. Using this  three-dimensional alphabet, new readings can continually be created for the same room.