Hand-Sculpted Cabinet with Original Lapis Lazuli, Pierre De Valck
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Description
Hand-sculpted cabinet with original Lapis Lazuli - Pierre De Valck Cabinet with stone (Lapis Lazuli) Oxidized and waxed aluminium-unique and signed Measures: 75 x 46 x 96 cm Medium sized cabinet with two hinged doors and four shelves. Mid-cabinet sits an unpolished Lapis Lazuli stone, estimated some 65 million years old and found in the Sar-e-Sang mines in Badakchan, Afghanistan. Provenance Sar-e-Sang, Badakchan, Afghanistan. Circa 65 million years old Pierre De Valck Pierre De Valck (1991) born in Brussels, is a Ghent-based designer with a childhood fascination for archeology and collecting historical artefacts. His furniture attempts to harness the power of ancient geological processes in a contemporary bodice. Modern antiquities that allow the rediscovery of an ancestral past. Pierre De Valck manually encrusts each piece of furniture with unique minerals and stones of exceptional historical value. Leaving the minerals untouched, the mere functional is transcended, rendering the pieces both unique and authentic testimonies of our collective memory.
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Customization Options: Made to order dimensions can be made, please contact us Documentation: Makers Label/Invoice Origin: Belgium Period: New Materials: Aluminum Condition: New. Creation Date: 2020 Styles / Movements: Modern, Contemporary Incollect Reference #: 382184 -
Dimensions
W. 29.53 in; H. 37.8 in; D. 18.12 in; W. 75.01 cm; H. 96.01 cm; D. 46.02 cm;
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