Smuggled Evidence

2014

34x18x7cm

Antique found object engraved and heavy 24kt goldplated, divers precious stones casted in acrylics

Unique piece

Part of Ted’s House installation at Design Miami, 2014

Noten embedded a nineteenth-century pistol in a block of acrylate that he then milled, filed, sanded and polished by hand until the old pistol was encased in the form of a contemporary handgun, as if we were witnessing one in a long series of reincarnations. This is the only piece in Noten’s oeuvre in which the outer layer of acrylic was so distinctly sculpted into a new form.

Atelier Ted Noten