Ⅰ Hanging cuboctahedron in clear glass
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Divine Proportion

Cuboctahedron from 160 €
Ⅱ Sacred drop in clear glass on the workbench
Ⅲ Hanging Rhombic Dodecahedron in clear glass
Ⅳ Rhombic Triacontahedron hanging in front of the Buddha Sacred Drop A geometry all in curves, born of the meeting between the rigor of polyhedra and the fluidity of the drop. The sacred drop leaves sharp edges behind to embrace an organic silhouette: that of the tear, the seed, the first instant of life. Where the solids speak of structure, she speaks of the living as it flows: falling water, the very movement of creation. Her softness of form calls for tenderness; her discreet point keeps the link between the sky she descends from and the earth where she comes to rest. A sensitive, feminine geometry, to accompany beginnings. Rhombic dodecahedron 12 rhombic faces · dual of an Archimedean solid; within it one can read a zome 4 and its double spiral. The rhombic dodecahedron can also be read as a zome of order 4: the double spiral is found there. It is more angular than its companion the regular dodecahedron; its geometry is more precise, sharper, and works in depth. It is a geometry of intimacy and of the inner journey: made less to enliven a place of exchange than to accompany connection through meditation. In a dedicated space, on the intimacy of a mat and with eyes closed, it gives its full measure. Rhombic triacontahedron 30 golden rhombic faces · each face is a folded golden rectangle. The rhombic triacontahedron is the dual of the icosidodecahedron: its thirty rhombi are all built on the golden proportion, making it one of the forms most deeply attuned to the golden ratio. From this harmony arises a great softness, the quiet elegance of rightly proportioned things. A geometry of supreme harmony, where each face recites the same secret measure. From certain angles, one can see a star striving to free itself from its glass casing. Reaching out toward the unknown… Like man, who lets the eddies of fate break upon the fire of his will.
Choosing to live.

Snub dodecahedron
Solar

A dodecahedron stretched until a star blossoms from it. From ether to matter, it lacks only movement.

from 420 €
Ⅴ Snub dodecahedron Solar in clear glass, resting outdoors
Tetrahedronfrom 90 €

4 triangular faces, 4 vertices, 6 edges · the simplest and sharpest of the five Platonic solids.

Known since Antiquity, the five Platonic solids were each identified by Plato with an element, as if he had sensed their vibratory nature. The tetrahedron corresponds to Fire: point, impulse, will, upwelling. Its pure, taut geometry makes it the shape of momentum and beginnings.

Glass tetrahedron, close-up in front of the Buddha
Duals

To every polyhedron corresponds a dual: each face becomes a vertex, each vertex becomes a face. Each takes shape in the gaze of the other: form and reflection, held together, draw a third figure like an emergent property. To act in symmetry with one's thought, and reflect as best we can our most virtuous wishes.
Perhaps that is what these solids wish to whisper to us.

Octahedron hanging in front of the old wall Cube being soldered, in the workshop
Octahedronfrom 90 € Cubefrom 90 €

For Plato, the octahedron was air itself, that which circulates, connects, transmits. The shape of subtle movement, between lightness and precision.

8 triangular faces. 12 edges. 6 vertices. Schläfli symbol {3,4}. It is the geometry of the diamond, which naturally crystallizes as an octahedron.

In the Nyingma tradition it is called Vajra; legend likens it to the “mystery of the mind, awareness of all the buddhas”.

Eight triangles. A single breath.

Plato entrusted it with the Earth. Where the octahedron lightens and circulates, the cube settles and endures.

6 square faces. 12 edges. 8 vertices. Schläfli symbol {4,3}.

They are said to be duals. What one carries as faces, the other raises as vertices.

For nothing awakens that was not born of the ground,
and only what has been tested endures.

Fractal octahedron 890 €

Each proportion begins to repeat at different scales, in a fractal nesting where the inside mirrors the outside. The geometry seems to breathe toward the infinitely large as toward the infinitely small. A fascinating shape for the eye, inviting contemplation to lose itself in its successive levels, a visible image of the self-similarity found everywhere in nature.

Fractal octahedron hanging in the garden
Fractal octahedron, looking down over the steps

“Days lost in a workshop pass with such intensity, each gesture repeated with such care and simplicity that, like the bird resuming its flight the moment it ends, there is at bottom only the joy of doing without thinking about it.”

The workshop — the joy of making Anita in the workshop · 5-day course
Terra ZiOM, glass terrarium with orchid Terra ZiOM from 290 €
Each geometry comes

Variations

Icosahedron resting on a wooden desk
Freestanding
Icosahedron hanging from its chain
Hanging
Full icosahedron, hanging in a living room
Full
Open geometry filled with dried flowers
Open
Solder detail, silver patina
Silver
Solder detail, black patina
Black
Solder detail, copper patina
Copper
Terra ZiOM, glass mandala detail
Icosahedron from 140 €

The sea, a lake, the river, motionless within movement.

Twenty triangular faces. Thirty edges. Twelve vertices. Twenty equilateral triangles drawing a sphere, like so many particles seeking, from everywhere at once, the same distance.

With the dodecahedron it keeps a rare relationship: they are duals. The number of faces of one is the number of vertices of the other. Two geometries answering each other, containing each other, echoing each other. The same score, played in reverse.

An atomic cluster, 12 atoms at the vertices, one at the center. As if nature kept returning to the same answer. An icosahedral capsid, to envelop life at the microscopic scale.

Perhaps that is what Plato had sensed, without seeing it.

Hanging icosahedron, black patina
Icosahedron resting, in place in the workshop
Dodecahedron from 90 €

The Dodecahedron has obsessed humanity's greatest minds, unveiling itself to each of them a little more across the centuries. Aristotle gave it a name: aithêr, the ether. That which contains all the others without being any of them. Leonardo da Vinci gave it a shape, a presence; he drew it from every angle. Newton gave it an identity, the invisible force binding the stars together. Einstein, in 1920, gave it a role, no longer an invisible fluid but a set of physical properties existing in a space even devoid of matter.

Twelve pentagonal faces. Thirty edges. Twenty vertices. Within every pentagon sleeps the golden ratio. φ = 1.618.

Dodecahedron hanging in front of the workshop window
Dodecahedron hanging on the wooden wall, in front of the Buddha
Silver icosidodecahedron resting on the garden table Icosidodecahedron from 160 € Hanging glass stellation, the twelve-pointed star
Merkabah hanging in the living room, over the reading Merkabah450 €
Rhombicosidodecahedron · from €360
Rhombicosidodecahedron, workshop board
From solid to star, there is but a step.
Stellation

The art of extending the faces or edges of a polyhedron until they blossom into starry points. To stellate a geometry is to extend its faces until they meet beyond the body, sending out points like so many rays. The solid becomes a star: it radiates, it soars, it fills the space with a more ardent presence.

A dynamic expression of the processes of creation and expansion. The star reaches toward complexity without ever forgetting where it comes from. Unable to escape the sphere…
The form of a sonnet, in its poetic loop.Of an omen that, in weightlessness,
a solid will become a stellation.

Snub cube from 320 €
Snub cube, resting on the table outdoors
Snub cube from 320 €