Timetable With Rough Crystal Stone by Pierre De ValckUnique Piece.Dimensions: W 100 x D 150 x H 35 cm.Materials: Patinated bronze and Rough Crystal stone.Pierre de Valck, Rick Owens, Pierre Jeanneret, and Niclas Wolff, four artists whose works generate as many views on the fragile balance of relations between Humanity and its surroundings. In the age of the Anthropocene, when hominins seem to have left their indelible mark on the Earth, it seems appropriate to ask once again: What is the artist's relationship to the materials that surround him, and what does he project onto them?Pierre de Valck is developing a body of work in which aluminum and bronze set stone as a pedestal highlights an archaeological piece. These pieces bear witness to an unquenchable curiosity that magnifies the symbiosis between the hand of Man and the creative forces of Nature.The purity of Pierre de Valck's work is reminiscent of that of Pierre Jeanneret. But if one is the man of the inside, the one who looks at himself to, it seems, appreciate the harmony of his gesture in a larger Nature, the other has put his creativity at the service of the transformative power of Man, he is the man of the outside, turned towards the immediate, practicalneeds of his contemporaries. They are two sides of the same coin, both at the crossroads of questioning in the field of decorative arts, oscillating between dream and function in design.Pierre De Valck (1991), born in Brussels, is a Ghent-based designer with a childhood fascination for archeology and collecting historical artifacts. His furniture attempts to harness the power of ancient geological processes in a contemporary bodice. Modern antiquities that allow the rediscovery of an ancestral past.Pierre De Valck manually encrusts each piece of furniture with unique minerals and stones of exceptional historical value. Leaving the minerals untouched, the mere functional is transcended, rendering the pieces both unique and authentic testimonies of our collective memory.