2020 · Open edition
Sablier
Twenty-three blown orbs, hung at lengths taken from a tide table.
The drop lengths of Sablier are not designed. They are transcribed from a week of tide heights at Saint-Malo in March 1961, the week Étienne’s daughter Mireille was born, scaled to a 1.6 m field.
Each orb is free-blown without a mould, so the walls vary from 1.8 to 3.4 mm. Thin walls hold more light and read almost white; thick walls hold shadow at the pole. Hung together the field has a visible weather to it.
Sablier is the only piece we will install at an angle. Roughly a third of clients ask for the field to be tipped five or six degrees against the ceiling plane, and it is better for it.
Made for
Above kitchen islands, reception desks, and anywhere seen from directly below.
Specification
- Diameter
- 1,600 × 700 mm field
- Drop
- 380–1,610 mm, individually set
- Weight
- 52.1 kg distributed across the plate
- Lamping
- 23 × G9, 2700K
- Glass
- Free-blown orbs, 140–190 mm, no two identical
- Metal
- Brass suspension plate, 6 mm, drilled to order
- Edition
- Open edition
- Lead time
- 20–24 weeks
Finishes
- ClearFilament fully visible
- SmokeIron-tinted; roughly 40% transmission
- OpalineMilk glass, no visible filament
Provenance
Restaurant Miroir, Geneva — 61 orbs across two fields, 2022.
From, excluding finish and installation
€34,900