A complex form with an archaic character — in real bronze.
NYX follows the primal form of the vessel: a round body, a narrow waist, a widely opened chalice. Flowing ribs run across the whole surface, winding around the body, converging at the waist and fanning out again toward the mouth. In doing so the form turns in on itself — no two viewing angles are alike. NYX does not look made, but grown.
Bronze contains around 80% real bronze particles in the filament. The metal is not a color applied to the surface but part of the material — and it behaves accordingly. You notice it when you pick it up: Bronze in Large weighs around one and a half kilograms.
The patina forms on the object. After printing, the surface is exposed and the patination is deliberately set in motion. What happens next can be guided but not predicted exactly: the material decides where the bronze converts, and how strongly. That is why every Bronze is different, and why I cannot promise you that yours will look like the one in the photo.
The surface stays open. It is not sealed. That means it goes on changing — slowly, over years, depending on where the vessel stands and how often it is touched. That is intended.
Printed, not cast. The form is developed on the computer and built up layer by layer in 3D printing, on an FDM machine in the studio in Memmingen. The fine lines on the surface are exactly those layers. They stay visible because they show how the vessel came to be.
Everything after that happens object by object: deburring, breaking edges, treating the surface, setting the felt base, checking, packing. Every piece has its number and its batch entered on the Object Card.
The weight also comes from a steel core in the base. It sits in a sealed capsule and gives the vessel a low center of gravity — hold it to your ear and you will hear it faintly. That is how it should be.
