Continuing an annual routine and in line with their philosophy, BRUT Collective presents a new, shared scenography. This year, however, they chose to provide the various scenographic elements with their own distinct functionality. A decision deliberately shifting the creation of a shared atmosphere towards the formulation of a full-grown collective collection. Drawing from quintessential city elements, the often modular and customisable pieces add up to a synthesis of an urban landscape and challenge the relationships between the public and the domestic.

A City’s Low Table and A City’s Long Table are two variations on an indicative composition of modular components resembling the concrete units to guide urban motion. But in an optimistic juxtaposition, the table above all symbolizes the city as an optimal context for encounters: a shared space where (impending) communality comes about.

The table's sections are respectively sculpted from Belgian bluestone or Balegem sandstone; both alluding, in turn, to the thresholds and facades that generally separate inside from outside and, as such, mark a final boundary between the residential and the public. The hard, cool and smooth character of the Ardennes bluestone thereby contrasts impressively with the warm-yellow and porous appearance of the sandstone from Balegem (near Ghent). Implying two design possibilities which, regardless of their difference in materiality, meet in the abundant presence of clearly perceptible fossil remains. In addition to these differences in materiality, there is a difference in shape. The contrast in this case, however, rather introduces an intention of complementarity, allowing a future user to extend or shorten the piece of furniture according to their wishes. With a minimum of the two hemispheres forming a compact side table.