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The  Fonteyn Chair

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Verde Guatemala Marble and Burr Oak Veneer

Size: L60cm x W80cm x H70cm

Brooksbank & Collins’ Fonteyn Chair is named in honour of the celebrated ballet dancer Dame Margot Fonteyn 1919-1991, who together with her dance partner Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev 1938-1993 mesmerized audiences around the world with their performances of extraordinary grace and athleticism.

The Fonteyn Chair explores the relationship between two separate but interdependent bodies, the seat of the Fonteyn Chair is resolutely athletic, it’s weight shifted and in motion, it holds its back panel partner in a daring but perfect lift, the two bodies dancing in dynamic equilibrium. The athleticism of the seat is achieved through the use of a single block of Verde Guatemala marble giving it weight and strength. Book-matched Burr Oak veneer is used to construct the back panel, the flamboyant display of burring completes the performance.

The two bodies of The Fonteyn Chair cover very different but equally great epochs in time. The Verde Guatemala Marble quarried in India formed millions of years ago. The Oak Tree from which the veneer originates grew in a cattle pasture on a large English Estate in the Cotswold Hills. The tree lived for at least 825 years, growing as a sapling around the year 1250. Combined, the two materials span geological time and great changes in our civilization.

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The Kubrick Table

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Honed Thassos Marble

Size: L140 x W140 x H30cm (Tabletop)

Brooksbank & Collins’ Kubrick Table is named in honour of legendary film director Stanley Kubrick, 1928 – 1999, whose visionary oeuvre includes the science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In their design for the Kubrick Table Tom and Allan have explored their fascination with the visual language of science fiction and in particular Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Kubrick table is composed of four individual egg-like spheres intersecting a circular disc. Each of these geometric elements is carved from pure white Thassos marble and, as a whole, the Kubrick table possesses an ethereal glow redolent of a serene white space craft traversing the vastness of space.

Thassos marble is quarried in the beautiful island of Thassos, located in the Northeastern part of Greece. The island derives its name from Thasus, brother of Europa and King of Phoenicians, who settled in the island after Zeus kidnapped his sister, to find solace in the natural beauty of the setting.

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Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Triton Chair

Each piece is unique

Material: English Bur Oak with Copper inserts

Size: L40 x W40 x H80cm

Brooksbank & Collins’ Triton chair is named in honor of the planet Neptune’s Moon, Triton. Inspired by the dramatic view of the crescents of Neptune and Triton, acquired by NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989, the chair’s geometry reflects the relationship of the two stellar bodies.

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”

Carl Edward Sagan, American astronomer, 1934 – 1996

The Triton Chair is composed of 3 panels of naturally fallen book matched English burr Oak; Latin name Quercus macrocarpa is a large deciduous tree and one of the slowest-growing oaks; the tree is a microcosm of the life of the universe.

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Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Boullee Table

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Mirror polished & etched stainless steel

Sphere available in Black, Brass or Mirror Polished Finish

Size: L120 x W120 x H35cm (Tabletop)

Brooksbank & Collins’ Boullee Table is named in honour of Etienne Louis Boullee, 1728 – 1799, a neo-classical architect whose visionary design for Newton’s Cenotaph interprets his subject’s ground breaking conceptions of time and space via a monumental language of form and light.

The Boullee table is a distillation of pure form rendered in mirror polished and acid etched stainless steel. It is constructed from three structural elements – sphere, disc and axial base – which interlock in accordance with the movement of the heavens. The piece presents a glimpse of interstellar horizons, the monumental shadows of the planets and the glittering light of a thousand distant suns.

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Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

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The Fossus Carrara Table

Each piece is unique

Material: Carrara Marble and White Resin

Size: L71 x W50 x H22.2cm

Brooksbank & Collins’ Fossus Table is named from the Latin ‘Fossus’, translated as ‘chiseled’ or ‘dug up’. Imagined as an artefact unearthed, Fossus is both ancient and futuristic. When you get really close to Fossus it transforms from a piece of furniture to resembling a landscape of plateaus raised above jagged cliffs in miniature. You can imagine that the surface of the plateau is inscribed with mysterious intersecting hieroglyphs like the ancient Nazca land lines in Peru (500 B.C. – A.D. 500).

The Fossus table is a monolith of solid marble, pieces of marble are removed from the edge of the monolith to achieve a weathered form; by contrast, the top surface is polished to an exquisite mirror sheen and inlaid with a hieroglyphic notation of abstract lines. The lines give the intriguing impression of having been delicately overlaid into the table surface – in fact they have been carved deep into the body of rock with visceral linear cuts inlaid with specialist resin.

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The Fossus Nero Marquina Table

Each piece is unique

Material: Nero Marquina Marble and Black Resin

Size: L71 x W50 x H22.2cm

Brooksbank & Collins’ Fossus Table is named from the Latin ‘Fossus’, translated as ‘chiseled’ or ‘dug up’. Imagined as an artefact unearthed, Fossus is both ancient and futuristic. When you get really close to Fossus it transforms from a piece of furniture to resembling a landscape of plateaus raised above jagged cliffs in miniature. You can imagine that the surface of the plateau is inscribed with mysterious intersecting hieroglyphs like the ancient Nazca land lines in Peru (500 B.C. – A.D. 500).

The Fossus table is a monolith of solid marble, pieces of marble are removed from the edge of the monolith to achieve a weathered form; by contrast, the top surface is polished to an exquisite mirror sheen and inlaid with a hieroglyphic notation of abstract lines. The lines give the intriguing impression of having been delicately overlaid into the table surface – in fact they have been carved deep into the body of rock with visceral linear cuts inlaid with specialist resin.

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Photographs by Guy Farrow

The Carbo Asper Table

Edition: 20 + 2 AP

Material: Mild steel – hot-dip spun galvanised

Size: L96 x W96 x H24cm

Brooksbank & Collins’ Carbo tables can be understood as pure concept and take their cue from the System based American Conceptual artists of the 1960/70’s.

“The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can’t be understood without understanding the system. It isn’t what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance”.

Sol LeWitt, 1928 – 2007, American Conceptual Artist.

The Carbo tables are a pure mathematic representation; with components combining to create two horizontal surfaces, the lower horizontal surface’s shape is always an integer of the upper horizontal shape. The Coffee table is double the length, double the width and half the height of its numerically similar Side table.

The Carbo tables are ordered according to the taxonomic ranks employed by biologists, relationships are indexed at the same rank and new Carbos are created by moving up and down the ranks.

The product of the system are currently Coffee and Side Tables but could expand to incorporate different typologies.

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Carbo Flavus Table

Edition: 20 + 2 AP

Material: Mild steel – zinc plated and yellow passivated

Size: L48 x W48 x H48cm

Brooksbank & Collins’ Carbo tables can be understood as pure concept and take their cue from the System based American Conceptual artists of the 1960/70’s.

“The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can’t be understood without understanding the system. It isn’t what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance”.

Sol LeWitt, 1928 – 2007, American Conceptual Artist.

The Carbo tables are a pure mathematic representation; with components combining to create two horizontal surfaces, the lower horizontal surface’s shape is always an integer of the upper horizontal shape. The Coffee table is double the length, double the width and half the height of its numerically similar Side table.

The Carbo tables are ordered according to the taxonomic ranks employed by biologists, relationships are indexed at the same rank and new Carbos are created by moving up and down the ranks.

The product of the system are currently Coffee and Side Tables but could expand to incorporate different typologies.

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Me-Far Uelox Vessels

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Silver & 18ct Gold & Rhodium; Hallmarked

Size: L21 x W13.5 x H13cm (both vessels nesting)

An ancient text which observed the Kimonos worn by the Japanese Samurai captures the spirit of Brooksbank & Collins’ Me-Far Vessels;

“His kimono was restrained in colour – according to the solemnity of his office – but in fine and abundant silk in accordance with his rank and wealth. As he knelt on the tatami mat, the stiff fabric of his sleeves and shoulder garments fell in geometric layers at his sides. The lines enveloping him were poised, considered and restrained, giving a formality and ceremony to his form like a dragon fly resting on a leaf, or a piece of origami.”

The Me-Far series is an analysis of geometry and the sequential numbering of polygons, each set of vessels is one result of that analysis. A great variety of forms emerge from the analysis but there are geometrical limitations leading to a finite series of Me-Far Vessels.

Each set of the vessels can be nested together into a single decorative piece. Alternatively they can be playfully combined in a variety of different ways, each of which creates different geometrical patterns and reflections. Made from Precious and semi-precious metals, Sterling Silver, Gold and Rhodium, Copper and Bronze, the series of Me-Far Vessels uses the most exquisite materials to highlight their forms and the materials surfaces reflect each other in bewildering complexity.

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Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Me-Far Nitor Vessels

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Silver & 18ct Gold; Hallmarked

Size: L21 x W13.5 x H13cm (both vessels nesting)

An ancient text which observed the Kimonos worn by the Japanese Samurai captures the spirit of Brooksbank & Collins’ Me-Far Vessels;

“His kimono was restrained in colour – according to the solemnity of his office – but in fine and abundant silk in accordance with his rank and wealth. As he knelt on the tatami mat, the stiff fabric of his sleeves and shoulder garments fell in geometric layers at his sides. The lines enveloping him were poised, considered and restrained, giving a formality and ceremony to his form like a dragon fly resting on a leaf, or a piece of origami.”

The Me-Far series is an analysis of geometry and the sequential numbering of polygons, each set of vessels is one result of that analysis. A great variety of forms emerge from the analysis but there are geometrical limitations leading to a finite series of Me-Far Vessels.

Each set of the vessels can be nested together into a single decorative piece. Alternatively they can be playfully combined in a variety of different ways, each of which creates different geometrical patterns and reflections. Made from Precious and semi-precious metals, Sterling Silver, Gold and Rhodium, Copper and Bronze, the series of Me-Far Vessels uses the most exquisite materials to highlight their forms and the materials surfaces reflect each other in bewildering complexity.

For all sales & press enquiries please contact Gallery FUMI

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Me-Far Altus Vessels

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Silver; Hallmarked

Size: L25 x W15.6 x H11cm (all 3 vessels nesting)

An ancient text which observed the Kimonos worn by the Japanese Samurai captures the spirit of Brooksbank & Collins’ Me-Far Vessels;

“His kimono was restrained in colour – according to the solemnity of his office – but in fine and abundant silk in accordance with his rank and wealth. As he knelt on the tatami mat, the stiff fabric of his sleeves and shoulder garments fell in geometric layers at his sides. The lines enveloping him were poised, considered and restrained, giving a formality and ceremony to his form like a dragon fly resting on a leaf, or a piece of origami.”

The Me-Far series is an analysis of geometry and the sequential numbering of polygons, each set of vessels is one result of that analysis. A great variety of forms emerge from the analysis but there are geometrical limitations leading to a finite series of Me-Far Vessels.

Each set of the vessels can be nested together into a single decorative piece. Alternatively they can be playfully combined in a variety of different ways, each of which creates different geometrical patterns and reflections. Made from Precious and semi-precious metals, Sterling Silver, Gold and Rhodium, Copper and Bronze, the series of Me-Far Vessels uses the most exquisite materials to highlight their forms and the materials surfaces reflect each other in bewildering complexity.

For all sales & press enquiries please contact Gallery FUMI

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Me-Far Quinque Vessels

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Bronze; Patinated finish

Size: L43 x W43 x H14.4cm (all 3 vessels nesting)

An ancient text which observed the Kimonos worn by the Japanese Samurai captures the spirit of Brooksbank & Collins’ Me-Far Vessels;

“His kimono was restrained in colour – according to the solemnity of his office – but in fine and abundant silk in accordance with his rank and wealth. As he knelt on the tatami mat, the stiff fabric of his sleeves and shoulder garments fell in geometric layers at his sides. The lines enveloping him were poised, considered and restrained, giving a formality and ceremony to his form like a dragon fly resting on a leaf, or a piece of origami.”

The Me-Far series is an analysis of geometry and the sequential numbering of polygons, each set of vessels is one result of that analysis. A great variety of forms emerge from the analysis but there are geometrical limitations leading to a finite series of Me-Far Vessels.

Each set of the vessels can be nested together into a single decorative piece. Alternatively they can be playfully combined in a variety of different ways, each of which creates different geometrical patterns and reflections. Made from Precious and semi-precious metals, Sterling Silver, Gold and Rhodium, Copper and Bronze, the series of Me-Far Vessels uses the most exquisite materials to highlight their forms and the materials surfaces reflect each other in bewildering complexity.

For all sales & press enquiries please contact Gallery FUMI

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall

The Me-Far Tribus Vessels

Edition of 8 + 2 AP

Material: Copper; Waxed finish

Size: L52 x W49.1 x H16cm (all 8 vessels nesting)

An ancient text which observed the Kimonos worn by the Japanese Samurai captures the spirit of Brooksbank & Collins’ Me-Far Vessels;

“His kimono was restrained in colour – according to the solemnity of his office – but in fine and abundant silk in accordance with his rank and wealth. As he knelt on the tatami mat, the stiff fabric of his sleeves and shoulder garments fell in geometric layers at his sides. The lines enveloping him were poised, considered and restrained, giving a formality and ceremony to his form like a dragon fly resting on a leaf, or a piece of origami.”

The Me-Far series is an analysis of geometry and the sequential numbering of polygons, each set of vessels is one result of that analysis. A great variety of forms emerge from the analysis but there are geometrical limitations leading to a finite series of Me-Far Vessels.

Each set of the vessels can be nested together into a single decorative piece. Alternatively they can be playfully combined in a variety of different ways, each of which creates different geometrical patterns and reflections. Made from Precious and semi-precious metals, Sterling Silver, Gold and Rhodium, Copper and Bronze, the series of Me-Far Vessels uses the most exquisite materials to highlight their forms and the materials surfaces reflect each other in bewildering complexity.

For all sales & press enquiries please contact Gallery FUMI

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall