Hand-sculpted cabinet with original Lapis Lazuli - Pierre De Valck.Cabinet with stone (Lapis Lazuli).Oxidized and waxed aluminium-unique and signed.Measures: 75 x 46 x 96 cm.Medium sized cabinet with two hinged doors and four shelves. Mid-cabinet sits anunpolished Lapis Lazuli stone, estimated some 65 million years old and found in theSar-e-Sang mines in Badakchan, Afghanistan.ProvenanceSar-e-Sang, Badakchan, Afghanistan. circa 65 million years oldPierre De ValckPierre De Valck (1991) born in Brussels, is a Ghent-based designer with a childhoodfascination for archeology and collecting historical artefacts. His furniture attempts toharness the power of ancient geological processes in a contemporary bodice. Modernantiquities that allow the rediscovery of an ancestral past.Pierre De Valck manually encrusts each piece of furniture with unique minerals andstones of exceptional historical value. Leaving the minerals untouched, the merefunctional is transcended, rendering the pieces both unique and authentictestimonies of our collective memory.