“Hoek af” literally translated in english means “missing a corner”, but
when somebody is missing a corner, in dutch, it means that they are a
little bit crazy. I was thinking about these words while i was thinking
of a friend who is “missing a corner”. It became obvious to me that
although he misses a corner he actually is more interesting. And than it
struck me that when you take a square and you cut of a corner two new
corners are created, meaning that instead of loosing something,
something is won. Every piece of “hoek af” has lost a corner and a leg,
but won two corners and thus also won two legs.
When people are missing a corner they still have their other
corners, the ones they always had since creation, this is the more
conventional part if you will; and the way i think about it the extra
corner is a more colorful part. For the table and the chairs the same
rules apply, so the wood is the conventional/classic part and the
colorful part is the colorful part.