Dale Mathis' clockworkpunk executive desk

Dale Mathis' gorgeous executive desk uses clockwork gears to kinetically imply the massive inner cogitations — the brainthink — of the man sitting behind it, whether an airship captain planning the optimal air-route over the trouble nation of Zembla, a Mechanical Turk chewing his moustache over a particularly difficult endgame variant, or a corporate executive wondering if he wants rye bread on his ham sandwich. The desk is only being marketed to the latter, though: each unique clockworkpunk sculpture costs $21,000.

Executive Desk [Redstone Gallery via Born Rich]

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , June 18, 2008 7:44 AM]

Huge bonus points if the gears actually move and thus make something (the desk legs?) move.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , June 18, 2008 1:38 PM]

There are 2 videos on his website, on which you can see the gears rotate. No moving legs though.

Desk: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=1367153

A coffeetable: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=26208730

[#3 posted by John Brownlee , June 18, 2008 2:09 PM]

I didn't link the videos because the autoplay music was incredibly irritating.

[#4 posted by timjay , June 18, 2008 2:33 PM]

Wow, gears that turn. It's so clockwork. I bet it plugs into the wall.

[#5 posted by Anonymous , June 18, 2008 3:35 PM]

Nothing says "steam era" better than a rolltop desk, so for a true steampunk desk there should be a rolltop desk form with side panels that open up and let you see moving gears like this, arranged vertically in the sides.

[#6 posted by Mousewrites , June 18, 2008 4:42 PM]

a) thank you for calling this clockpunk, rather than steampunk. While the later is often subbed for the former, I much prefer gears to steam, myself.

b) ::melts into a puddle of goo with desklust::

[#7 posted by soupisgoodfood , June 18, 2008 10:56 PM]

Clockwork steampunk stuff only really interests me when the gears are actually part of some working, practical system. I just don't get the appeal, otherwise. Perhaps it's the engineer in me.

[#8 posted by Anonymous , June 19, 2008 5:26 PM]

Excuse me: the MAN who sits behind it?

[#9 posted by Anonymous , July 3, 2008 11:37 AM]

thank you for calling this clockpunk
kral oyun

[#10 posted by Anonymous , April 1, 2009 10:23 PM]

I saw this desk and several other pieces in a galery in Vegas. I must say that this guy is talented. And yes, all the gears do move.