To me, they can stand on their own as sculpture, notwithstanding that they can be used as tables.

Don't like the burnt wood, but they're credible sculptures. I like the top one the best.

If I was exhibiting them as sculpture, I'd be sure that at the opening reception, the gallery had signs posted "Do not place Champagne flutes on the sculpture". :)

I think they are fugly as sin. Taste is definitely subjective.

I find a lot of art interesting but not all art that interests me suits my taste. Some great art is ugly, yet beautiful; Van Gogh's Potato Eaters for example can be seen as an ugly, dark painting, but is beautiful if the viewer is familiar with Van Gogh's work, whereas Jacques Louis David's Death of Marat is a beautiful painting of death in a bathtub as it were...may be ugly to unschooled viewers.

Beauty and taste is subjective - and neither is relevant to whether a work of art will stand the test of time. There's much more involved with judging art than simply using the basis of "I know what I like". But of course, for other than collectors. historians, artists and aficionados, not knowing about art but knowing what one likes works great when decorating one's home, business, etc.

Not that it matters to the art buyer decorating their home, artists generally consider their work to be more than mere decoration. But artists are generally a magnanimous lot and will happily sell their work to even the most loutish. :)

The only thing wrong with them is the use of plantation pine instead of some exotic wood but I understand why he has done this. :rolleyes:

Oh boy! :D

You're jonesing for another "what is art?" discussion, aren't you?

Heh heh heh:D
Right on cue Mark, the both of us, bim bam boom.
You were jonesing to set me off.
And no effing way am I going to get spin dizzy again in another 'what is art' or 'I spent today in a museum' thread.

Well if they are pretending to be an artist, maybe they should learn. ;) I find some of this kind of stuff interesting.... Just not this person's because other than the nice piece of glass, this is a bunch of cheap junk screwed/wired together.

glass tables for a man cave? That's just dumb.
Glass get's dirty all the time leaves finger prints

Unless you lot like to clean, you'll have to get the wife or cleaner to come clean it.
In which case the man cave security perimeter will be breached.


amateurs.

And wait until you try to mount a vice or reloading press on that stuff...

Its not all cheap junk... Like I said those climbing cams are like $70/each...

Guess he shouldn't have blown his budget on them... :D

Here is some REAL mancave furniture!

Urban Remains Chicago :: Home page

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Mancave, really......to para phases..."I do believe if I used that term I'd get my ass kicked".....not sure what you are doing in your "mancave" but those tables as functionally useless as t#ts on a boar hog.