A gold leaf design brooch. A credit card chip is placed at the center of the brooch. A series of gothic leaf style vines protrude from the chip and spiral downward.

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Brooch, Credit

This is a brooch. It was designed by Joris Laarman Lab.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Joris Laarman as part of Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age.

It is dated 2005. Its medium is gold, copper-nickel, epoxy.

Today, many people carry their wealth around on plastic cards tucked in their wallets. Laarman reintroduced the ornamental element of wealth by embedding a chip in a piece of jewelry. Wearers can boast--provided they enjoy a sufficient credit limit--that they are wearing the most valuable brooch in the world.

It is credited Courtesy of Joris Laarman Lab.

A photo taken of the exterior of a building that features a huge glass window with a black frame. Inside the window, a man climbs an all white wall by using curved fixtures that are adhered to the wall.

Installation, Ivy
polyconcrete.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.59

Three identical tables uniquely composed of small 5mm magnetic cubes. The tables are on a white background, arranged diagonally, one in front of the other on a white background. Its medium is a type of magnet, a nickel-plated neodymium voxel in a 5mm measurement. The magnetic cubes put together make a surface that’s full of edges and small corners. The tables are formed using the same process as the “Kilovoxel Table”; but, instead of 10mm cubes, 5mm cubes are used creating a slightly more resolved but still pixaleted look. The table has a flat top with legs waving towards the center. It has a base connecting all four. Details include, a duck in the center of the base, clouds in the center of the edge of the table, and flowers surrounding the corners of the legs and base, all assembled using the same material - all details in the pixelated look.

Table, Megavoxel, Digital Matter
nickel-plated neodymium voxels (5mm).
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.2a,b

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 8.5 × 5.5 × 0.1 cm (3 3/8 × 2 3/16 × 1/16 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2uaRHk/
Accession Number 84.2016.2
Object ID 975141897