If You Want A Picture Of The Future, Imagine A Glass Tabletop

debora delmar's 2015 sculpture smooth sailing is a giant tan teddy bear, like as big as an adult human, sprawled on its back on a terra cotta tile floor of a belgian art gallery with a round glass tabletop on top of it. decorative white rocks supposedly from a beach are under the bear's feet to raise them up and into contact with the tabletop. via the royal academy, where delmar studied soon after this show.
Débora Delman Corp., Smooth Sailing (Tan), 2015, bear, decorative rocks, glass, image via, cf Royal Academy, and installation shot from a student era show at Mon Cheri in Brussels

This 2015 sculpture, Smooth Sailing (Tan) by Débora Delman, is as perfect as Gunther Sachs’ 1969 table by Allen Jones is repulsive.

an allen jones misogyny table from 1969 sold at sothebys for a million pounds in 2012 had a white female mannequin on all fours, head down, black leather knee high boots and long black gloves, and a tits-out corset of black and yellow for its base, with a glass tabletop on the mannequin's back. the mannequin sits on a four-part white sheepskin, and appears to stare down at a round mirror laying under its face on the skin. this table was owned by party pig gunther sachs, who for a very long time owned the townhouse paul rudolph made for halston.
Allen Jones, Table, 1969, from an edition of six, sold by the estate of Gunther Sachs at Sothebys in
2012 for a million pounds

Meanwhile, though the coffee table in which Anthony Michael Hall’s Geek was encased is nowhere to be found,

the purported glass dining table from John Hughes’ 1984 racist teen date rape comedy Sixteen Candles was sold at a COVID compliant estate sale in Highland Park in October 2020.

a glass dining table with a wavy edge sits on two square glass bases sits on a beige sisal area rug in a beige travertine floored beige dining room where the sconces have been removed from the beige wall above the beige wainscotting. supposedly this table was used in filming the final scene of john hughes' 1984 date rape teen comedy Sixteen Candles, where jake the rich senior, after trading away his passed out girlfriend to be raped by anthony michael hall's geek, sits on this table with molly ringwald's character, a sixteenth birthday cake in between them. the estate sale manager of this highland park illinois sale claimed without any documentation that this table moved from the movie location house to its c.2020 house, though nothing else in the estate seems to indicate any connection to hughes or the film.

h/t @voorwerk