Architect Jin Hee Park explores the possibilities of table design. In the daily life of the traditional Korean family, meals are eaten in a personal room, thus the food is moved with a table called a “soban”, a symbol of Korean patriarchal culture. The upper surfaces of the Hanji Soban tables designed for the exhibition are supported by four thin legs and their shape aims to act as a metaphor of the relationship between genders in the past, while also attempting to blend the uniqueness of Korean tradition with absolutely contemporary values and forms.
