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"Design in Time and Light" Clock by Jerome Simon

Creator: Jerome Simon
Offered by: Machine Age

Description
Created (and patented) in 1981 by Jerome Simon, the extraordinary "Design in Time and Light" is a light-beam projection clock. The arched chrome and glass base magnifies a single beam of light, periscoping it through the underside of the central acrylic tube. Motorized mirrors in the back refract the light and send beams onto the round frosted glass clock face: A large circular beam marks the hour and two thin beams mark the minute and second. A short chrome tube behind the small mirrors houses the motor itself. A switch at the back of the base controls the light output.

The design, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, was produced in a limited edition by the Beamo Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This iteration was customized for a client in Britain but never picked up. Thus it is both like-new and wired for use in the U.K.

Hand-numbered 203 and signed on the label underneath.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	Signed and numbered 203.
Origin:	United States, Massachusetts
Period:	1980-1999
Materials:	Chrome; Glass; Acrylic; Optical components
Condition:	Good. Very good; never used.
Creation Date:	1981
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Minimalist
Incollect Reference #:	638971

Dimensions

W.	12.5 in;	H.	14.75 in;	D.	9 in;
W.	31.75 cm;	H.	37.47 cm;	D.	22.86 cm;

Message from Seller:

Located in Boston’s up-and-coming Dorchester neighborhood, Machine Age houses New England’s largest collection of twentieth-century furniture, lighting, & objects d’art. For 30 years, we have been offering a comprehensive but highly edited assemblage of American & European pieces from the 1930s through the 1990s. Aesthetically, the work marries modernism’s clarity of line & embrace of experimentation with a refined craftsmanship.