the pigeon table

The Pigeon Table is a piece Muller Van Severen made together with Laila Gohar. This collaboration was initiated by a mutual enthusiasm and interest in each other's work and was first presented during the Salone del Mobile in Milan 2022.  The table is inspired by a conversation around mud brick pigeon houses in Egypt, Laila's homeland. By very intuitively sending things-images, drawings, ideas- back and forth, the eventual design came to live. ​It is difficult to describe in words what binds the two parties, because it is mainly an expressive connection. It is the love for authenticity, everydayness, a form of banality that can be ingenious, the rudimentary, the techniques…