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These are custom cast sculptures. While the snail represents one's complacency, these clocks remind you of how your time seems to always get shorter. Available at the John Elder Gallery in New York and Scandinavia House shop in New York City, see below for more showrooms. The Escargot clock is made in three variations:

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Solid cast concrete with painted front   Flexible black rubber with white numbers    Flexible translucent amber resin, monochrome
8-1/4"x7-1/4"x2-3/8". The escargot clocks have been shown at the Celebrate NY Design! event, organized by The Municipal Arts Society. Also seen at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York / Material-Connexion, New York / K. Ross Gallery / The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York / Gallery Copen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Gallery 91 on 91 Grand Street, New York City and more. 

 

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