Bracket Clock
Designer; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
About 1851
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
"Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was the most important promoter and designer of the mid-1800's revival of the Gothic style. In 1846, Pugin was hired to oversee the the furnish of the houses of Parliament, where this bracket clock was originally installed. He used plaster casts of well-known English and French Gothic architectural features as inspiration for the motifs of vines, trefoils, ribbons, and beveled corners. These elements added a dynamic composition to the restrained clock form."
It pleased me as an engineer to see something functional in an art museum. I often think that there is impressive beauty in functional things that are well done. The most obvious of example of this would be classic cars, but other things like clocks can be works of art too.
Bracket Clock
Designer; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
About 1851
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
"Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was the most important promoter and designer of the mid-1800's revival of the Gothic style. In 1846, Pugin was hired to oversee the the furnish of the houses of Parliament, where this bracket clock was originally installed. He used plaster casts of well-known English and French Gothic architectural features as inspiration for the motifs of vines, trefoils, ribbons, and beveled corners. These elements added a dynamic composition to the restrained clock form."
It pleased me as an engineer to see something functional in an art museum. I often think that there is impressive beauty in functional things that are well done. The most obvious of example of this would be classic cars, but other things like clocks can be works of art too.