Table I Monk, 1953/2008
Pearwood and ebony, with drawer, 75 x 83.5 x 64.5 cm. Limited to an edition of 9.
In 1953, Joseph Beuys designed three different tables and a bookshelf for a collector in Düsseldorf. Beuys expanded the first Monk table into a work of art and later integrated it into the legendary Block Beuys collection in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. The three tables and the bookshelf were first published in an edition of 9 in 2008.
