Hand-sculpted cabinet with original Lapis Lazuli - Pierre De Valck.Off-round cabinet with stone Lapis Lazuli.Oxidized and axed aluminum, unique and signed.Measures: ø 96 x D 22 cm.Medium sized wall-mounted cabinet with two hinged doors and four compartments.Mid-butterfly hinged doors sits an unpolished Lapis Lazuli stone fragment, estimatedsome 65 million years old and found in the Sar-e-Sang mines in Badakchan,Afghanistan.ProvenanceSar-e-Sang, circa 65 million years old, Badakchan, AfghanistanPierre De ValckPierre De Valck (1991) born in Brussels, is a Ghent-based designer with a childhoodfascination for archeology and collecting historical artifacts. 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.