{"product_id":"clear-botanical-specimen-cube-resin-sculpture-9cm","title":"Clear Botanical Specimen Cube Resin Sculpture - 9cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cast resin sculpture, a small cube with equal sides holding one dried botanical specimen suspended inside it. The specimen sits clear of all six faces, so it is read through the material from any direction and appears to float. The faces are polished flat and the arrises left crisp. One cube is supplied per order, and which specimen it holds is chosen at order rather than fixed in advance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOne Specimen Held Clear of Every Face\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whole point is the suspension. Because nothing touches a face, there is a few millimetres of clear material on all sides of the specimen, and that margin is what makes a dried seed head look deliberate rather than embedded: it reads as a thing being presented, in the manner of a museum mount, and the cube reads as the vitrine. The specimens themselves are the kind that hold their shape and colour dry - flower heads that keep their disc, seed pods, thistle heads, small papery lanterns, umbels that keep their spokes - and they run through ochres, rusts, ambers and creams rather than any bright colour. Set the cube on a printed page and the type beneath shows through it, which is the usual test people apply to one first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 9cm this is a desk and shelf object. A desk, a bookshelf, a hall table, a mantelpiece or a windowsill all suit it, and it needs nothing under it. A windowsill is the position that flatters it most, because daylight through the cube throws the specimen's own shadow onto the surface beneath and doubles it. They are made to be grouped, and a run of six or nine along a shelf reads as a collection where one on its own reads as a paperweight. Keep them where they will be picked up: the cube is meant to be handled and turned, and behind glass it loses the thing it does best. Indoor use only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eChoosing the Specimen, and Buying Them as a Group\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBespoke commissions take 5–6 weeks; standard pieces take 3–4. The specimen is the decision and it is made at order from what the studio has dried and holds ready, so it is agreed by description before work starts rather than picked from a fixed list: seed heads, pods, flower discs, lanterns and umbels are the recurring families, and availability moves with the season. Density is a choice too, from a single specimen centred in the cube to three lesser ones arranged through the depth. Other cube sizes are made to order, and a rectangular block is offered where two specimens are to be stacked. Because these are individually chosen, a group ordered together is composed as a group, which is how most go out. Each cube is boxed on all six faces, since a polished arris is the part that suffers, and a group of nine ships in one carton. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne dried specimen floating in a polished cube sits with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/abstract-sculptures\"\u003eabstract sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; small cast work of this kind is gathered in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/contemporary-modern-sculptures\"\u003econtemporary and modern sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and as a desk object it belongs to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor 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\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSupplied\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne Cube Per Order, Specimen Chosen at Order\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHigh-Clarity Cast Resin with Dried Plant\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53956672455003,"sku":"N103","price":1417.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/N103.jpg?v=1791462719","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/clear-botanical-specimen-cube-resin-sculpture-9cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}