In 2010 we had recently started working with brass. We had been interested in the
material for a while; the warm soft glow was very appealing. We started exploring
working with cast brass as well as polished brass plates.
Polishing larger brass surfaces and coating them with a protective layer turned out
to be more challenging than we thought. It took us over a year of testing until
every step along the way was perfected.
It begins with the selection of the raw material - there are different qualities of
brass alloys, with different ‘shades’ of gold. Then comes the polishing part - large
surfaces such as the 65 cm discs of our Plate and Sphere - are physically very
difficult to work on for the polisher, and many polishers shy away from this work.
Finally, the protective coating must be applied correctly: type of coating, amount,
humidity and other conditions during the operation all influence the final
outcome.
The perfect disc is the result of several skilled artisans, each having perfected every
step.
Our Disc and Sphere and Plate and Sphere series are made exclusively of solid
polished brass, rather than commonly used gold-colored coatings over standard
sheet metal.
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