Cauny launches The Sculpture Watch, a timepiece designed by Steven Holl. The watch is an homage to Álvaro Siza, emerging from a long-standing dialogue between the two architects.
Written in Water
– S. Holl
“This watch is an homage to Alvaro Siza, who told me “Steven, your colors are like Matisse… I must work next in color.” Watercolor painting, integral to my design process for architecture, motivates this design. While in painting, some colors push forward and others recede, here, the interlocking shapes of the colors have a push and pull geometry. Time is imagined as color, with each moment its own polychrome experience. Color turns time’s passage into both a visual and temporal experience. The fragility and variation of color remind us that time is a human experience of duration.
The Fibonacci sequence (3, 5, 8, 13) marks the hours on the dial, suggesting time as analogous to proportion. The spatial energy of architecture is activated in color, light and time.”
With the watch, Cauny continues its exploration of time through architecture, bringing together two of the most influential figures in contemporary design in a project that bridges correspondence, memory, and form.
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