THE UNKNOWN PLANETS

The number of undiscovered planets in the universe is a great unknown. This lack of knowledge opens the door for fanciful imagining – what they look like, their characteristics and aspects – and allows us to visualize the uniqueness of our own planet. A vision of how one could feel on a foreign, undiscovered planet is the projection screen here: a utopian, as well as dystopic, fantasy about life in another world. These tables imagine the unknown using a very special technique. Whimsical planets are realized in mosaic made of glass, and are embedded in a universe made of black marble terrazzo that seems to glitter with stardust. The project is also a technical challenge: it has been in fact extremely difficult to combine mosaic with terrazzo.