Tim Durfee & Iris Anna Regn
The Growth Table is designed to attract people of all ages to come, sit, and share in the pleasures of drawing.
Kids can find a bench their size, while toddlers can crawl to the lowest surface and make their masterpieces from the floor. Those wishing to rest or observe can take a place at the front.
Patterns machined into the wood surfaces surrounding each station encourage interpretation and open play. Grooves and holes for paper and pencils are also textures for chalk rubbings. You can face up or down. No rules!
Recently acquired by the new Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway, Growth Table functions as a joyous catalyst for social activation of any indoor or outdoor space. By welcoming people to sit and draw together, a simple children's activity becomes a unique collective and intergenerational experience.
Growth Table is one of several projects by Tim Durfee & Iris Anna Regn that examine objects and spaces that operate at multiple scales. As part of the artist Fritz Haeg’s Sundown Salon #28, Durfee and Regn created doll houses that were also functional objects (Field House and Meadow Table). Another project, Storyboard by Tim Durfee, imagines a personal library and place for reading collapsed into a single object.
Growth Table was originally designed as an installation for the exhibition BROODWORK: Creative Practice and Family Life in Los Angeles, CA.
Marine plywood, Douglas fir, glass, rubber, drawing supplies
Photography: Jeremy Eichenbaum
Project Team: Chris Turner, Thor Erickson, Arthur Badalian, Sarhad Ghevandian, Jennifer Yukie Takeshi