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Description
From the Baroque to the Bauhaus, Berlin's architectural heritage makes the city an unrivaled destination. With its many trees lining the streets, Tiergarten Park is an oasis of green lying just west of the Brandenburg Gate along the river Spree. Chisel & Mouse provides a bird's-eye view in its artfully hand-cast, 3-D model in a resin plaster. Enclosed in a perspex box, it can hang on a wall or sit on a table top.
Brit brothers Robert and Gavin Paisley painstakingly reproduce select cities and stand-alone buildings in resin plaster (free of toxic solvents) of a reassuring weight and cool smoothness, with fine details including window frames etched in metal. In their Sussex studio, the "Chisel" refers to traditional plaster-cast methods and the "Mouse" to the computer-aided design (CAD) technology and 3-D printing used to achieve the sculptural models.
Specifications
Size
12" h x 12" l x 2" w (30.5x30.5x5cm)
Material
Resin plaster, perspex
Details
1:5000 scale
Handmade in the UK
Resin plaster is free of toxic solvents
Brand
Chisel & Mouse
“We wouldn’t presume to think of ourselves as artists,” Robert Paisley says. “We call ourselves draftsmen; the architect is the artist.” A bit of an understatement for Robert and brother Gavin, who fled an office-software business for their creative venture Chisel & Mouse. With both traditional plaster-cast methods (the “Chisel”) and today’s 3-D printing and computer-aided design (“Mouse”), not to mention Google Earth and satellite data, they turn out painstakingly accurate architectural models. The smooth white plaster replicas of such landmarks as the Bauhaus Dessau and New York’s Guggenheim Museum are stylish and also quite personal, adds Robert. “I love the idea of immortalizing a place that’s special to people.”