{"product_id":"multi-colour-blockwork-sphere-acrylic-sculpture-50cm","title":"Multi-Colour Blockwork Sphere Acrylic Sculpture - 50cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn acrylic sculpture of a sphere built entirely from rectangular blocks laid in horizontal courses, each course stepped in or out from the one below to approximate the curve. The silhouette is therefore a staircase and the overall profile is a circle, and which of those you see depends on how far away you are. The courses are coloured in bands: blue across the crown, then a wide belt of red, then orange, then yellow, then green, and blue again at the foot. Every block is translucent, so the bands show through one another where the sphere is thin at the top and bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Circle Built Out of Squares\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking a sphere out of courses of rectangles means every course is a different problem. The number of blocks in a course, their width and how far the course steps in from its neighbour all change as the diameter changes, so the courses have to be drawn as one set, and a course one block out would break the outline at once. The crown and the foot are the difficult ends: there the diameter changes fastest, so the steps are largest and the eye is most likely to catch a flat spot. The colour boundaries are set at course lines rather than within a course, which sounds obvious and constrains the design considerably, since a band can only be as wide as a whole number of courses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 50cm, a sphere of saturated colour is a strong thing to put in a room and it wants to be the only strong thing there. On a plain low table, an island, a broad console or the floor of a bright corner it works well; on a patterned rug beside a coloured sofa it competes and loses. It reads from a distance, so it suits a large room or the far end of an open one better than a tight space where you only ever see it close and read the blocks rather than the sphere. Daylight is kindest to the colours. Under a warm lamp the green and blue courses go muddy while the reds and oranges gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCourses, Colour and Lifting It\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet aside 3–4 weeks for a standard piece and 5–6 weeks for a bespoke commission. The colour sequence is drawn per piece, so a single-colour sphere, a two-tone division or a graded run from one end of the spectrum to the other are all available, and the block size can be coarsened for a blunter staircase or refined until the sphere reads almost smooth. Diameters run from something that sits in a hand up to a piece that needs a room of its own. A part-sphere is made for a piece intended to sit against a wall. It is lifted from underneath with both hands rather than gripped round its middle by the edges of the courses. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt of stepped courses banded blue, red, orange, yellow and green, this sphere rounds out our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/contemporary-modern-sculptures\"\u003econtemporary and modern sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/acrylic-sculptures\"\u003eacrylic 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\u003e50cm\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\u003eColoured Acrylic Block\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54022615105883,"sku":"C337","price":3398.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C337.jpg?v=1792077456","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/multi-colour-blockwork-sphere-acrylic-sculpture-50cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}