Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Micheline Nahra has disassembled a four-person dinner setting and rebuilt it for one person, in a bid to make absence visible.
With a set-up originally meant for a group of family or friends now dedicated to a single person, A Dinner for One tells a story of loss.
"It's a signifier of three people that are now absent, of a former normalcy of life that is now absent, and a situation that has been transformed into a memory," Nahra told Dezeen.

Taking a table in dark, lacquered wood with four matching chairs as her starting point, Nahra deconstructed them into their constituent parts. She then reassembled them into a single sculptural chair and table that are almost unrecognisable from the original. The designer changed the way that the constituent elements of the original pieces were arranged, but nothing else ? they were neither repainted nor carved or lacquered.
This particular design method results in a piece that honours the old, while making space for the new.

It is an approach that is derived from Nahra's background growing up in the so-called "security belt" in southern Lebanon, which was occupied by Israel for 18 years after the end of the First Lebanon War in 1982.
"Where I come from, destruction is a reality and reconstruction is inevitable," Nahra told Dezeen. "It was important to me to explore what happens during these two processes in order to have a better understanding of the context I come ...