Collectibles

“Compass Collection”

Price On Request The Taylor Precision Products Compass Collection is a curated collection of vintage compasses used by the Boy and Girl Scouts of America organizations during the years TKTK. An ancient navigation tool, the compass still today represents the human impulse for discovery as well as the discipline and careful planning that is necessary to succeed in daily life. The collection pays respect to the American tradition of the Boy and Girl Scouts organization that is still evolving and adapting to the times. The black, brown, and red versions were used by boys, while the light and dark green editions belonged to the Girl Scouts.

“Momento”

Price On Request "There is a moment when a clinging bead of water,  in quiet, orb-like suspension, becomes a droplet," writes Tao Namura. " The droplet reflects its surroundings while gathering light within. " Inspired in this phenomenon, "Momento" is a lamp, an installation, and a meditation on transience, freezing a moment and turning into a source of light. Crafted out of...

“Ossimori IV”

Price On Request "Ossimori" is a collection of one-of-a-kind pieces, a study of materials, sparse sculptural compositions that contrast sparse and monochromatic objects and materials, like chalk and marble. Their different shades of white that can take different meanings, and the objects propose an openendedness that can be read in different ways: white like an archeological discovery, white like a...

“RollBottom”

Price On Request In Ian Stell's words, "RollBottom" is a PacMan Hermit Crab, a reversible geode, a roll-gate, and a roller coaster. An imaginative take on the school desk, RollBottom integrates chair and work surface into one linked structure in which the desk cover and sitting surface are one and the same. Either you sit in this chair and work,...

“Scale model of ‘Progressland’ for the World's Fair, New York”

Price On Request The scale model of "Progressland" refers to the General Electric pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair, whose themes were "Progress through Electric Power" and "The Wonders of Atomic Energy." In a brochure from the time, "Progressland" is described as "a large graceful building with a curving 200-foot-wide dome, supported by a unique pattern of swirling circular pipes....

“Skywalkers”

Price On Request "Skywalkers" is a collaboration between Czech artists Tadeáš Podracký and Markéta Kratochvílová. Inspired in Baroque science, their suite of delicate futuristic lighting objects functions both as meditation on materials and a speculation about the future-part art deco, part C-3PO. "Each lighting unit represents parts of cosmic vehicles and modules that are used for the exploration of the...

“Urn”

Price On Request Peter Pincus's "Urn" (2016) is a unique piece made by the artist for Chamber. Made of colored porcelain and gold luster, it is a reinvestigation of a form the artist first made in 2005\\. "Each time I remake it, I try to play with formal relationships, like that between lip and foot or between stem and belly,...

“Transparent Speaker” ORIGIN

Price On Request With the "Transparent Speaker," People People propose a new look for an audio system-in the form of a transparent glass box with a minimal black frame-but also a more sustainable form for electronics. The speaker can be fully disassembled, each individual part replaceable and fixable, and some even recyclable. It ships almost flat, can be assembled at...

“Little Nest, The Felt Cradle”

Price On Request "Little Nest" is designer Oszcar Vagi's answer to young children's sleepless nights. "I got inspired to design a childbed providing the most natural conditions for sleeping," says Vagi. The cocoon-shaped crib is made entirely from Merino wool and hangs from leather straps, reacting to a baby's movement and swaying lightly for a calming effect. "Due to perfectly...

“Soviet Eva Spacesuit Glove”

Price On Request This left-hand glove from an Orlan (Bald Eagle) EVA Space Suit was produced by NPP Zvezda as part of the Orlan space suit, a semi-rigid one-piece space suit. The glove is fabricated from nylon lined with rubber, and features rubber fingertips, anodized aluminum wrist coupling, insulated nylon gauntlet, pebbled rubber grip pads, and flap with velcro closures...

“Space Shuttle Flown Gold Thermal Blanket”

Price On Request This reflective, thermal blanket is of unknown origin and fabrication, but it can claim a space voyage to its name. As part of special spacecraft Thermal Protection System that helps shelter the orbiter from extreme temperatures, the blanket's process of fabrication is long and complex, and includes cutting of ceramic fabric, layering, sowing, lubricating, baking at high...

“Space Flown Seeds”

Price On Request These ParkSeed tomato seeds were sent to space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984 as part of NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) project. LDEF carried dozens of experiments from many different disciplines, among them ParkSeed's tomato seeds, designed to study the effects of deep space on seeds. They remained in space for five years, until...

“Lunar Orbiter Project”

Price On Request These six photographs, part of a suite of twenty images taken in 1966 for the NASA_LRC Lunar Orbiter Project, document the craterous surface of the moon with the objective of identifying smooth areas suitable for landing future missions to the moon. Despite creases and some wear to the edges, the historic photographs remain in good condition. They...

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