Escape into the Upper Air at Spring Projects 2011 The works featured in Escape into The Upper Air are a series of intensely hued Hanging Tables and horizontal fibreglass tables, a number of geometric Cloud Lamps and a collective of glass sculptures—new additions to the Imaginary Architectures series. Like much of their previous work, El Ultimo Grito's creative process re-positions and re-appropriates the everyday elevating low-tech materials into objects of desire.

EUG imbue their work with a vast range of influences; from philosophy, sociology, art, popular culture, designed products to food and science. Viewing design as a vehicle, a way to make complex ideas tangible, El Ultimo Grito inject abstract concepts into design products with the aim to create new objects that are typologically autonomous from the learnt conventions of the past and thus offer alternative ways to live, work and communicate.

El Ultimo Grito's tables are created to work on multiple axes. The Hanging of Furbellows Table is a monolithic form vertically, re-assembled horizontally it returns to conventional form.

These works instill the presence of both sculpture and functionality, and are set in motion with a variety of corporeal attitudes and tactile responses. They are made to be responded to, both physically and psychologically, posing questions about our social experience to objects.

The polished surfaces of the Free Range fibreglass tables use cardboard as the base construction material to form non-geometric, organic-like furniture and are coated (as if dipped) in fibreglass. In this exhibtion they act as the foundation for an elegant sprawl of delicately formed glass objects that create an urban vista. Cinema, Airport, Love Hotel, House and Station. These Imaginary Architectures are propositions for the social, material and spiritual elements of cities. The glass 'buildings' are connected by 'glass bridges' inspired by Venice. These architectures are 'structures of anything', 'imaginary vehicles' familiar enough to be understood yet allowing us to probe, question and speculate upon the relevance and meaning of these spaces in our lives.

Extract from Domus magazine 08 September 2011