Furniture with memory. In her series ‘Untitled (Objects)’, Warsaw-based designer and artist Agnieszka Lastoa creates hybrid physical artifacts that combine advanced technology with antique furniture, juxtaposing notions of memory and progress. This piece, “Untitled #1”, highlights a 90-year old oak dining table encased in an electro-polarized glass “skin”. When an electric current is activated, “Untitled #1’s table top instantly transforms into an opaque surface, and subsequently, becomes the site of a digital video projection representing the table’s past life.
