Gallery: Museum-Worthy Clocks Meant to Change Our Sense of Time's Passing

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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-01-Overview-Peer Lindgreen

    Italian design duo Formafantasma’s installation, *From Then On* features four large, analog, abstracted versions of clocks.
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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-10-Pendulum Clock-close-up-Peer Lindgreen

    Each clock deconstructs time in a different way. This pendulum marks the seconds with an old-school shaving cream brush. As the brush sweeps across a curved brass surface, it keeps the oxidization process at bay.
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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-04-Saxophones Clock-A-Peer Lindgreen

    Like church bells the two-saxophones clock plays notes every 15 minutes.
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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-04-Saxophones Clock-A-Peer Lindgreen

    Speakers installed at the base trumpet out the alarms.
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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-02-Marble Clock-A-Peer Lindgreen

    The inner circle on the marble clock is a cut out from the larger shape, and as it rotates, the patterns in the rock only line up once every hour, on the hour.
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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-07-Fan Clock-B-Peer Lindgreen

    The metal fan clock has blades that swing open and shut every five minutes.
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    Established & Sons-From then On-Formafantasma-LDF-2014-06-Fan Clock-A-Peer Lindgreen

    The question at the heart of *From Then On* is: What if, instead of experiencing time through numbers on a flat interfaces, we understood time through sound, or motion?
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