Dominatrix Table

Filip Berg
Dominatrix Table, 2022
90 x 70 x 35 cm
Latex, patent leather, wood, polyurethane
Edition: 69 (8 color options, red, black, white, pink, gold, silver, blue, green)
€4500

Filip Berg (* 1992 Copenhagen, lives in Berlin ) is an artist, designer, and publisher of Viscose Journal, self-described as the “world’s most exciting journal for fashion criticism”. In his work, Berg playfully subverts the notions of good taste that continue to underpin prevailing trends in art and design. For example, with his work DOMINATRIX, Berg references the fashion of ornamental animal-like table feet, a phenomenon popularized in 17th century Europe, and converts it into the leg of a high heeled latex boot reminiscent of a dominatrix. While paw feet were originally deemed desirable for their elegant curvature, they also allowed furniture to assume the symbolic qualities vested in certain animals, such as lions (majesty, strength, courage, justice). Here, this symbolism is playfully conferred to the high-heel boot, an object not only associated with femininity but also with an assumption of power, the coding of drag and queer culture, as well as the fetishization of the foot, ultimately reinvesting the function of the table with a symbolism that belies its simple practicality.