Wolfgang Laubersheimer's Amazonas Desk for the Pentagon, 1988

Brutalism at its best, wonderfully unique and almost utopian in its fantasy: the Amazonas Desk , designed in 1988 by Wolfgang Laubersheimer for the Cologne collective Pentagon .

The desk features a robust, industrial steel base, topped with a natural stone top meticulously carved with the path of the Amazon River . The result is an intriguing dialogue between geometric rigor and organic form.

What makes this piece exceptional is that the river is not merely decorative: Laubersheimer equipped the table with an ingenious water circulation system , allowing the channel to actually be filled with flowing water. This piece of furniture thus becomes a hybrid between desk, landscape, and installation art – a unique work that decisively blurs the lines between functionality and poetry.

The Amazonas Desk has been included in major exhibitions, including German Avant Garde: Design in the 1980s (Demisch Danant, New York, 2008), and is today considered a key object within the international design avant-garde.

A masterpiece that not only makes a statement but also opens a dialogue between nature, technology, and brutalist architecture . The desk is in exceptionally good condition – a unique opportunity for collectors of museum-quality avant-garde pieces.