{"product_id":"blue-and-amber-faceted-gem-acrylic-sculpture-85cm","title":"Blue \u0026 Amber Faceted Gem Acrylic Sculpture - 85cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn acrylic sculpture cut as an upright block of roughly twenty flat faces, wider at the shoulder than at the foot. The faces are shallow rather than sharp, so the form reads as a boulder brought to a gem cut rather than as a crystal. It carries a dichroic surface, which means it has no one colour: the front and top planes return cyan, the left flank returns amber and a deeper red where the surface is seen almost edge-on, and a band across the bottom few centimetres goes pale gold. Every face also passes some light, so there is a second, dimmer version of all of it inside the block.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Block With No Single Colour\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dichroic surface is a stack of extremely thin coatings that reflects one part of the spectrum and passes the rest, which is why the colour depends on the angle you stand at rather than on any pigment. On a faceted object that becomes a design problem instead of a finish: each face stands at its own angle, so each returns its own colour, and the arrangement of the faces IS the arrangement of the colours. The cut is therefore decided with the coating in mind and not before it. The faces themselves are worked one at a time to a full polish, because a coating shows every flaw beneath it as a dull streak, and the edges between them are left crisp rather than eased, since a rounded edge blurs one colour into the next and loses the whole effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt eighty-five centimetres this is floor-standing or low-plinth work rather than a shelf object, and it should be placed where you can walk around it, because standing still in front of it shows perhaps a third of what it does. It suits a hall, a landing, the far end of a glazed run or the corner of a large room. Give it daylight if you can. A dichroic surface needs a broad, changing light source to move through its range, and a single fixed spot pins it to one colour permanently. Keep it clear of a doorway line: the faces are crisp-edged and shins find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFacets, Height and Standing It Safely\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe standard build is 3–4 weeks and the bespoke build 5–6. The coating is chosen at order and it decides everything: this cyan-to-amber set, a magenta and green shift, a gold, or a plain polished block with no coating at all. The cut is drawn per piece, so the number of faces and how sharp they are can both be changed, and the block can be tinted through as well as coated. Heights run from a desk piece to something above head height. Moved, it stays upright, held at the shoulder and the foot and never laid on a flank, because grit under a coated face would mark it for good. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn upright gem of cut dichroic planes, cyan at the front and amber down its flank, is found among our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/geometric-sculptures\"\u003egeometric sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/acrylic-sculptures\"\u003eacrylic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e85cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e65cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDichroic Acrylic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54022602654043,"sku":"C028","price":3790.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C028.jpg?v=1792004517","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/blue-and-amber-faceted-gem-acrylic-sculpture-85cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}