The centrepiece of the Time Machine show is
a new hand-crafted Carrara marble grandfather
clock. With a desire to create a grandfather
clock for many years, the celebration of Broom’s
decade of design was a timely and natural choice
to release the new design. The clock is a limited
edition piece with only ten being produced in
celebration of the past ten years, one for each
year.
“I’ve always wanted to design a grandfather
clock. My grandparents had one in their
home when I was growing up and I was always
fascinated by its majestic appearance and
its intricate mechanisms. Given our decade
in design, it felt like the right moment to
design one. Clocks are synonymous with the
commemoration of a significant passage of time
and that sentiment seemed very timely for our
10th anniversary year. It was important for me
to create something contemporary that was very
opposite to the traditionalism usually associated
with grandfather clocks, so I started to look
at a more modernist silhouette, creating very
faceted angles and straight lines, similar to that
of brutalist architecture.”
