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拍品专文
The "Tom & T-Rex" table clock is a unique piece created by MB&F and L’Épée 1839.
Children are capable of great imaginative feats, and especially so in the case of those limited by illness or disability. T-Rex offers an escape for elastic minds, carrying its little companion Tom away into fantastical realms with the earth-shaking strides of the mightiest of dinosaurs, under the protection of an all-seeing cyborg eye. Made of hand-blown Murano glass, the eyeball also functions as a clockdial, indicating hours and minutes via two curved hands.
Tom stares down into a transparent blue marble of the same Murano glass nestled in his cupped hands, perhaps imagining a different world. T-Rex, with its blend of fantasy and technology, is a metaphor for the factors that sustain the daily existence of a sick child: the flights of imagination that nourish the spirit, and the scientific advancements that will one day effect a long-awaited cure.
COLLABORATION
"Tom & T-Rex" is the 11th collaboration between MB&F – who contributes the concept and the design – and L’Epée 1839 – who ensures the technical realization and production. MB&F is participating for the fifth time in Only Watch. Previous participations were always with a unique piece made on the basis of an existing collection. In 2019, MB&F and L’Epée have decided to first present this unique piece of the T-Rex clock, which will be launched in the fall of 2019.
Children are capable of great imaginative feats, and especially so in the case of those limited by illness or disability. T-Rex offers an escape for elastic minds, carrying its little companion Tom away into fantastical realms with the earth-shaking strides of the mightiest of dinosaurs, under the protection of an all-seeing cyborg eye. Made of hand-blown Murano glass, the eyeball also functions as a clockdial, indicating hours and minutes via two curved hands.
Tom stares down into a transparent blue marble of the same Murano glass nestled in his cupped hands, perhaps imagining a different world. T-Rex, with its blend of fantasy and technology, is a metaphor for the factors that sustain the daily existence of a sick child: the flights of imagination that nourish the spirit, and the scientific advancements that will one day effect a long-awaited cure.
COLLABORATION
"Tom & T-Rex" is the 11th collaboration between MB&F – who contributes the concept and the design – and L’Epée 1839 – who ensures the technical realization and production. MB&F is participating for the fifth time in Only Watch. Previous participations were always with a unique piece made on the basis of an existing collection. In 2019, MB&F and L’Epée have decided to first present this unique piece of the T-Rex clock, which will be launched in the fall of 2019.