side table Bing One, 2005
crystal
limited edition
“A block of frozen energy”*
This support is made using a process similar to making ice cubes in the freezer: pouring a liquid into a mold and waiting.
For Bing One, this meant waiting around three months before opening the cooling kiln to find the crystal set in its plaster womb. The 120-kg “ice cube” is then cleaned and polished, revealing a cloud of air bubbles trapped in its body when the crystal was poured into the mold, preserving the memory of the material in its molten state, frozen in mid-movement.
* In Élisabeth Lebovici, MSz, A Practical Science of the Singular, JRP|Ringier, Zurich 2010.