Elgin Clocks Furniture

This is a little 30-hr. clock that has a face that magnifies the numbers. It has a second revolving unit. Mechanical pocket watch design ball clock...

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Rare 1980s brass world time table clock by Kienzle. Goes back to the design of Heinrich Johannes Möller. Made in Germany. Kienzle is the oldest clock company in Germany. Housing is m...

Mid century modern rattan wall clock by Raymor, circa 1960s. In great working order. 14x14

Rare large, heavy Mid Century brass world time clock by Kienzle. Design by Heinrich Johannes Möller. Made in Germany. Kienzle is the oldest clock company in Germany. It was founded i...

A great 1970s or 1980s wall clock designed by David Davir. A rectangular design with a white lucite face and sides, black lettering, a red dot where the 12 would appear, and in large letters...

Interestingly, while nearly all of the designs that came out of George’s studio were attributed to him, many were actually designed by him and his team. Some were even designed solely by someone else working at the studio. Nelson famously recounted the story of how the Ball Clock came to life in an interview decades after it’s release: “It was one of the really funny evenings. Noguchi came by, Bucky Fuller came by, and here was Irving, and here was I, and Noguchi - who can’t keep his hands off anything - he saw we were working on clocks and started making doodles. Then Bucky sort of brushed Isamu aside. He said, ‘This is a good way to do a clock’ and made some utterly absurd thing. Everybody was taking a crack at this, pushing each other aside and making scribbles. At some point we left – we were suddenly all tired, and we’d had a little bit too much to drink – and the next morning I came back, and here was this roll of paper, and Irving and I looked at it, and somewhere in this roll, there was a ball clock. I don’t know to this day who cooked it up.” Nevertheless, whoever it was that came up with George Nelson’s designs, it’s almost certain that they would never have come to fruition if it wasn’t for George’s vision and forward-thinking approach. Can you tell me more about his clocks? George’s clocks were one of his most impressive bodies of work. In total, he and his team designed over 130 clocks in just three decades. While it is widely accepted that Irving Harper was the lead designer for the Howard Miller Clock Company at George Nelson Associates, the collection arose after two insightful observations from George: one, that people no longer used the numbers to tell the time; and two, that since most people now used their wristwatch to tell the time, interior clocks were now free to become more decorative in nature. The clocks were designed and released in batches of 8 and were initially only given numbers for names. The Sunflower Clock was simply ‘Clock 2261’, the Flock of Butterflies Clock was 'Clock 2226’, and so on. The Ball was the first clock designed by George and his team and it was followed shortly after by the Star, Sunburst, Spindle, Asterisk, Turbine, Flock of Butterflies, Eye and others. The clocks were purposefully abstract and were designed to complement the modernist furniture emerging at the time. As well as wall clocks, George’s studio also produced a series of desk clocks during that time, most notably the bubble-shaped Night Desk...

This is an amazing find. An unused and still in its original box packed Mid-Century Modernist solid brass Kienzle desk or table clock with a world map clocks face and world time zone...

Beautiful and stylish clock, in good working order. If you are looking for an exceptionally designed clock from the Arts & Crafts era then this rare mantel clock could be yours to e...

Handsome 8 day, Swiss jeweled Tiffany and Co. square desk clock in patinated brass with stepped dial frame and two-tiered base. Face pivots between f...

A round 1980s wall clock by Lorenz with white case, blue face with white clouds, black hour and minute hands, and second hand with two bi-planes on e...

This clock was made by the well known Kundo clock company of Germany and dates to approximately 1970 and done in a Mid-Century Modern style. This World globe clock...