{"product_id":"blue-hewn-resin-bowl-with-polished-basin-90cm","title":"Blue Hewn Resin Bowl with Polished Basin - 90cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis deep blue bowl form is worked to two opposite finishes. The outside is left in deep chisel cuts and broken facets that narrow towards a small foot, while the top is a level, polished surface rippled like water and filled right to the rim. The rim itself is chipped and irregular in outline, as though the edge had been broken rather than cut, and the blue runs right through the material instead of sitting on the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eChiselled Sides Under a Rippled, Polished Top\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat gives this blue resin bowl its depth is that the two finishes disagree. The faceted sides catch the light in many small planes, so the eye reads them as rock; the top then behaves as a still pool and returns the room, its ripples spreading out from the middle like rings on water. No two facets are the same size and they run at different angles, so the outside never settles into a pattern. The blue reads deepest down the hewn sides and lightest across the top, where the ripples catch the light, so the whole piece looks like still water held in a basin of blue rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLow and broad, it belongs on a wide, low plinth or directly on the floor, where the rippled top can be seen from above and the hewn sides from across the room. The top is filled to the rim, so it is a form to look down on rather than a vessel to fill. It sits best against materials with no shine of their own, so plaster, limestone and unfinished timber, and the saturation is strong enough that it wants to be the only blue in the room. Indoor use only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eChisel Depth, Top Finish \u0026amp; Tint at Order\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eStandard pieces take 3–4 weeks and bespoke commissions 5–6. Three things are settled at order on this bowl and none of them can be changed afterwards. The chisel work is specified coarser or finer, which alters the character more than the colour does: coarse facets read as broken stone from across a room, fine ones as a worked surface only at close range. The top is either polished and rippled, as here, or left in the same chiselled finish as the sides, which removes the contrast entirely and makes a single rough mass of it. The tint comes from the studio range, and the depth of blue can be taken lighter for a room that will not carry this saturation. A hollow casting is far lighter than the size implies, yet the broken rim is its weakest line, so the bowl travels upright in a fitted crate and is handled around the body and never lifted by the edge. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlue rock with a pool of still water for a top, this bowl rests among our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/organic-sculptures\"\u003eorganic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; it is also offered with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/functional-sculpture-art-furniture\"\u003eart furniture\u003c\/a\u003e, and its saturated casting with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/resin-sculptures\"\u003eresin sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSize\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eH40cm, W90cm, D80cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTranslucent Blue Resin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eConstruction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHollow Cast\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53956813816155,"sku":"J038","price":6277.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/J038.jpg?v=1791377725","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/blue-hewn-resin-bowl-with-polished-basin-90cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}