{"product_id":"blue-dichroic-low-square-box-acrylic-sculpture-50cm","title":"Blue Dichroic Low Square Box Acrylic Sculpture - 50cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis acrylic sculpture is a low square box of dichroic sheet, broader than it is high and closed by a flat top, its walls meeting at vertical corners that read as bright lines rather than as joints. The walls are a clear cyan-blue, and because the sheet passes light you read the back walls through the front ones; where they cross, the blue doubles into something deeper than either wall on its own. From above, the top takes a pale, silvery sheen, and towards the foot the walls pale almost to white wherever a light surface shows through them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFar Walls Read Through the Near Ones\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA box you can see into is more exacting than an opaque one, because it shows the inside of every wall. On a solid block only the outer surface is ever seen and the inner face can be left as it comes; here each wall is read from both sides at once, and a coating laid for one viewing direction still has to hold up from the other. The corners are the second difficulty. Four walls meeting along vertical edges have to close for their whole height, because any gap lets a white line through, and against a colour this even that reads as damage. And the proportion is deliberate: low and wide rather than cube, so the doubled colour where the walls cross happens across the middle of the object where it can be seen rather than in a corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLow and square, this is a table piece: a coffee table, a low console, an ottoman tray or the floor beside a chair, met from above while standing, at which angle the crossing walls resolve. Left clear it shows the doubled colour at its best, and anything set on its closed top competes with that colour and generally wins. Light from above and to one side is what this wants. Straight-down light flattens the top to a pale sheen, while a raking source wakes the blue in the walls. Give it a plain dark surface underneath, since you read that surface through the walls and a figured cloth turns into clutter inside the box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSheet, Proportion and Lifting It\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking a standard piece takes 3–4 weeks, and making a bespoke one 5–6. Colour and proportion are both open: it can keep this clear cyan, take a single flat tint or a full dichroic shift, or be left as clear sheet with nothing on it. The box can be made deeper as a cube, upright as a column, or longer as a trough, and the sheet thickens as it grows. It can be made open at the top as well, though the closed top is what gives it its silvery face from above. It is lifted by two opposite walls with flat hands rather than by a corner or an edge, both of which are the sheet at its most exposed. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA low cyan box whose far walls show through its near ones joins 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\/contemporary-modern-sculptures\"\u003econtemporary and modern 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\u003e30cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDichroic 5mm Acrylic Sheet\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54023522681179,"sku":"C080","price":1699.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C080.jpg?v=1792010858","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/blue-dichroic-low-square-box-acrylic-sculpture-50cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}