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Abaxial Clock
Accession # 1999.28.7
Designer Karim Rashid
Designer Lesley Horowitz
Manufacturer Abaxial Studio
Title Abaxial Clock
Date 1992
Medium Aluminum and other metals
Dimensions 9 x 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (22.9 x 10.8 x 10.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Karim Rashid
Location Visible Storage: Case 18, Shelf O (Contemporary Design)
Description Abaxial Clock, aluminum and other metals. Square, box-shaped clock raised on three splayed long tapering silvered metal, detachable legs. Clock is a gray metal, but with a yellow metal face. Clock face has no markings; minute, second, and hour hands are silvered metal rectangles. Hour and minute hands extend well beyond the edge of the clock face. CONDITION: Some pitting on legs; scratches and loss of plating on end of minute hand; remnants of (cellophane?) tape and adhesive on back.