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Materials House

Materials House

1999
Materials House

Materials House

1999
Triunial Optical Projection Lantern, by William Judd, London, c. 1895, with slides and accessories:- 3 slide holders, 3 of 20 framed slides, 1 long framed slide for producing dissolving colours, 1 lantern slide (photograph of the late W. H. A. Judd, Esq.), 1 box containing six indestructible limes and 2 gas testing tanks

Triunial Optical Projection Lantern

Limelight lime in sealed glass tube. 28mm diameter glass tube drawn out to fine tip containing lime for use as illuminant.

Limelight lime in sealed glass tube

Wall-mounted materials library created to accompany the large sculptural part of Thomas Heatherwick's ‘Materials House’. It comprises 213 materials each with an explanatory label. This piece was commissioned by the Science Museum in 1997 for the Challenge of Materials gallery and was built on site layer by layer. It allows visitors to explore a huge range of materials in an imaginative and original way. Heatherwick wanted “to do justice to [materials’] capabilities”. Made of Stainless steel, American red oak, sisal matting, acrylic, Westmoreland slate, parallam, synthetic carpet, millboard, brass, imitation terrazzo flooring, European lime, polyethylene foam, tectan board, synthetic rubber flooring, linen, American black walnut

Library for Materials House

1999