Cabinet with stone (Jasper)Oxidized and waxed aluminium-unique and signedMeasures: 75 x 46 x 96 cmMedium sized cabinet with two hinged doors and four shelves. Mid-cabinet sits a fieryred semi-precious fire stone, these stones were used as chopping tools by the HomoErectus, estimated some 300 million years old and found on the banks ofRhine-Meuse-Scheldt river delta in Belgium.ProvenanceRhine-Meuse-Scheldt river delta, Flanders, Belgium, circa 300 million years old.Pierre 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.