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This piece was designed taking inspiration from an orrery on display in Dunham Massey and various aspects of the Art Nouveau period – dragonfly jewelery and Charles Rennie Macintosh’s roses for the frame pattern, Hector Guimard’s French metro entrances for the verdigris effect on the frame, and wooden furniture from the for the orange colouring of the base.
The octagonal shape and angled roof of this piece required precision to have all sections neatly slot together. The angles were calculated using the Rhino model and a jig was made to sand each of the frames and panels to the correct angles which then fit neatly into the channel in the MDF base.
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