Drops draw the existence Clock

When Kanae Tsukamoto, the designer of this clock, noticed the shape made in the ground by a falling raindrop, she became aware of it as a gravitational form. Gravity works and can be felt directly, yet it can’t be seen or touched. She created this design as the image of gravity acting incidentally on the form of another object.

Size: W25.5 × H25.5 × D3.8 cm
Weight: 920g
Material: Porcelain
Specification: Sweep Second

Made in Japan.

Designer: Kanaé Tsukamoto
Born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. After working for several companies including Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd. she studied on a postgraduate course at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH) as a foreign student, on a scholarship from the YKK Yoshida Scholarship Association. She then moved to England and completed a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art (RCA). After working at Dartington Crystal Ltd and Queensbury-Hunt-Levine Design in London, she established Kanae Design Labo in 1999. Her designs are inspired by the theme “from the table to the surroundings.” She is a winner of the Design Competition Prize from Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the U.K., an Excellent Prize from the Tableware Festival of Tokyo Dome, and a Good Design Award in Japan, in addition to a Red Dot Award in Germany.
Her works are housed at the Gera Art Museum in Germany. 2009–2010, a Good Design Award panel member. 2013, a Nagasaki Design Award panel member. Currently, she works as a visiting lecturer at institutions including Kanazawa College of Art and Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts.