Beta Tank - Taxing Art

http://www.betatank.net/taxing-art.html

I saw someone had blogged a chair by Beta Tank just like this table which reminded me I had seen these people in Basel. A really interesting take on the Art-Design debate. This is a table but once you turn the squares over to make lots of pyramids it loses it's function and is now art. Meaning in Germany initially it would be taxed as a functional object at 19%. Turn the pyramids and it will be taxed 7% as a work of art.

The same is true of this box of hammers/work of art/coffee table. On the way to basel someone on the border will have decided which category this fits into.