{"product_id":"pale-blue-and-gold-pastel-faceted-gem-acrylic-78cm","title":"Pale Blue \u0026 Gold Pastel Faceted Gem Acrylic - 78cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tall upright acrylic sculpture cut into many shallow planes rather than a few deep ones. The film on it is the unusual part: it is soft in colour, so instead of returning jewel colours across its front it returns pale blue, aqua and a soft gold that shift into one another as you cross in front of it, between deeper violet faces down either side. The effect is closer to mother-of-pearl than to a cut stone, and the front stays light in tone from top to foot, with one face low on one side left almost clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Pastel Film Needs a Quiet Ground\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pastel film is the hard one to work with, and the reason is that it hides nothing. A saturated film carries the eye past small marks in the surface because the colour is the event; a pale one leaves the surface itself on view, so every plane has to be brought to an even polish, done in one pass per face so no overlap shows as a change of sheen. The many shallow planes follow from the same fact. Deep faceting throws hard highlights that would overwhelm a film this quiet, whereas shallow planes hand the light on gently from one to the next and let the tone carry. The one face left almost clear, low on one side, works the same way: it reads as a pause in the colour rather than as a gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy-eight centimetres puts it on the floor, or on a plinth of its own, and it wants to be placed well away from a busy corner. A pale, quiet ground is what makes it read: a plain wall, a light hall, an alcove with nothing in it, or the space beside a window. Against a bookcase or a patterned paper it simply disappears. Even daylight suits it better than a spotlight: a hard beam picks out the polish as white spots and takes the tone away, while a room lit generally lets the pale blue and the gold move across the faces as you walk past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePolish, Ground and What Arrives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs standard the build runs 3–4 weeks, and as a bespoke commission 5–6. Polishing paces this build: a pale film shows every mark, so each face is finished with care and in a single pass. Scale, the number of planes and the film all belong to the commission, so a version at hall height or one cut with fewer and deeper faces are both from this design. The film is settled at order between this pastel, a saturated blue-to-violet and a warm gold-to-rose, and a pastel film can be applied over a frosted body for a still quieter object. Set it down in its place with both hands at the sides near the foot, never at the top. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pastel film needs a quiet ground, so \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/geometric-sculptures\"\u003egeometric sculpture\u003c\/a\u003e is where it belongs, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/acrylic-sculptures\"\u003eacrylic sculpture\u003c\/a\u003e is what it is, and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor sculpture\u003c\/a\u003e is where it reads.\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\u003e78cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e53cm\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 Acrylic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54024447623515,"sku":"C052","price":3122.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C052.jpg?v=1792011289","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/pale-blue-and-gold-pastel-faceted-gem-acrylic-78cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}