Paul Spooner’s latest work features a complicated mechanism which draws the infinity symbol. The story of Clever Hans is pretty well known. There’s a good account on Wikipedia with valuable…
A great collectors item from Fourteen Balls Toy Company. A pair of tiny hand carved crowned royals, which vibrate lovingly on their spring mechanisms. Both pieces are number 1 of…
A new edition of Walter Ruffler’s book. The book contains 24 pages of theory and 14 construction kits. 8 of the construction kits are for individual mechanical principles, and 6…
A new piece from Paul Spooner (2011) This beady eyed crow blinks as the turning handle alerts him to the presence of your hand, which he then follows as it…
A great piece from Carlos Zapata from 2001, which was part of a small edition. Turn the handle and the oarsman vigorously rows with his single oar boat, down the…
A beautiful piece from Carlos Zapata, 2005. Turn the handle to give some well-deserved applause – a lovely congratulatory gift. Made of carved and painted wood, metal handle. Height 15…
Our new exhibition at Museum Boerhaave in Leiden, Netherlands is enchanting. The museum have worked closely with designer Saskia Meulendijks (Meulendijks Art Direction) to create an atmospheric world of wonders,…
CMT will be taking part in a free workshop at the V&A in London on 25th March as part of the Friday Late – Playhouse event. Performing Machines and Automata.…
This is a rare piece from Arthur Ganson. The mechanism is elegant and surprising, the shape of the cam determining how frequently the little man is nudged on the head,…
