Material
Chimney
In Studio Job’s typically opulent style, it appears as a chimney with a bronze base. On top of its slender, cigarette-like neck, sits the bronze ashtray, the drawers at the base collects the ashes. A romantic icon influenced by Job’s youth, growing up in an industrial Dutch town surrounded by red brick factories and towering chimney stacks.
- Material
- Polished and patinated bronze, brass, painted
- Dimension
- ca. 50 x 16 x 15 cm / 20 x 6 x 6 inch
- Edition
- PROTO + 15 + 2 AP
- Packaging
- Wooden box
- Signed
- JOB, year, initials of the buyer (optional)
smoking
I hate myself
After ten years of being a non-smoker, Job started smoking again, confessing – ‘How stupid of me! I hate myself!’ One of the consequences was the redesign of the everyday ashtray. In Studio Job’s typically opulent style, it appears as a chimney with a bronze bass. On top of its slender neck, itself long and tall like a cigarette, is the actual ashtray made of bronze.
This is not the first chimney by Studio Job. The 2006 Robber Baron table, which was shaped as a factory, had four chimneys for legs blowing bronze smoke. As with the factory, the red-bricked chimney evokes a traditional setting as well as the idea of looking back and romanticising the past, which had seduced Job into smoking.