Ithaca - Pre Order

Hand-Finished Smartphone Vessel

Material: White Concrete & Bronze
Technique: Casting
Incense: approx. 1mm diameter 

Assembled dimensions: 23.5 x 13.3  x 5 cm
Approximate weight: 3.75 kg

*******PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING*******
THIS IS A PRE ORDER. ALL ORDERS WILL BE TAKEN UNTIL 15TH JUNE. THE VESSELS WILL BE MADE TO ORDER AND AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP AT THE END OF JULY. WE WILL PROVIDE UPDATES VIA INSTAGRAM AND OUR NEWSLETTER.

Made with attention to detail, using high-grade white concrete and bronze - Ithaca is an aesthetically pleasing addition to Your household that can help with eliminating a typical after-work scrolling slump by creating a tactile ritual involving encasement of the device underneath a metallic lid indicated by burning of an incense stick. 

The vessel will reliably store phones up to the size of iPhone 16 Pro Max, case included.

White concrete bottom will be carefully sanded, varnished and joined with a thin piece of cork to protect the surfaces of Your furniture.  Ornamental bronze cover will be cast as several pieces which after attentive surface processing, joining and patination turn into a pleasant, yet functional piece.

The preorder system works in the following way:

1. After initial payment an individual confirmation message will be sent. 
2. Over the course of June the concrete bases will be cast and processed, with additional surface protector in form of cork, added to the bottom. 
3. In parallel, preparatory work will be made to prepare the tooling and materials necessary to cast the bronze pieces in a new workshop. 
4. A progress update will be sent out by the end of June in a form of a newsletter.
5. Once July begins, so will the casting and attentive processing of bronze lids. That is expected to take 2-3 weeks. 
6. By 22nd July You can expect another newsletter update that will include payment information for the remaining 300 GBP and pickup arrangement.
7. By 31st of July You will have the Ithaca in Your own hands, together with an individually numbered certificate of ownership. 

As the pieces are hand built to order, natural imperfections and differences between individual copies will be present - making each one a unique artifact. 

Delivery time: approximately end of July.

Made by Zbigniew Patryk Kanabrodzki, Edinburgh