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A structure held together by a difference in weight. Below, a heavy dark block with a white vein; above, a weightless fringe — and between them a stem that all but disappears in the dark.

The branches are uneven, with runs and swellings: an icicle grown in layers, or a fragment of coral. The fringe is set at varying lengths — shorter at the outside, deeper toward the centre — so the lower edge comes out alive.

By day it is a sculpture on a stone plinth — a clear crown, a dark base, the pure graphics of the stem. In the evening the branches glow along their whole length and most brightly at their tips: the fringe looks as though it is thawing, about to start dripping.

Where it works

Living rooms, halls, private studies, hotel rest zones, lounges, reception rooms.

Style

Nordic modernism and brutalist luxury: stone, dark timber, a cold palette, large volumes. The message is the thaw — a composition about the moment winter begins to give way.