Do you have too much money? Don't know where to go with it? But maybe it can keep you warm like Pablo Escobar's family once did. The unusual coffee table is the work of Barcelona-based Amarist Studio and Alejandro Monge and is the latest contribution to their Too Much? series of artworks that expose the vulnerabilities of money and its true value. The glass table, which holds a burning pyramid of 50-euro bills behind the case, creates the illusion that the money is actually burning with the help of a flame on top.
Amarist Studio is in his art series Too Much? together with Alejandro Monge added more glass coffee table with flame in the middle. It sits on a concrete structure, and they hide under the glass bunches of fifty-euro notes, frozen in the moment they were ignited, and the whole thing is completed by the real one fire at the top of the 'money pyramid'.
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It's all together just an illusion, because apart from the flame, nothing remained resin, paint and paper imitation. Not just money and ashes, but also a concrete slab. Art inspires and makes you think at the same time, according to the creators, they were reactions of people with different cultural backgrounds on the table completely different. This was presented at the design days Design Days Dubai 2016, the leading trade show in the Middle East and South Asia dedicated to limited and collectible series furniture.
Gallery - coffee table with a heater for 50-euro banknotes:
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