Wedge x 'time.' Speaker

A speaker now sits in 'time.' Barbershop on Club Row. Printed in silica sand, it borrows its form from Wedge's Soleus chair, a curved, sculptural base that became the housing for sound. This is the piece's first appearance. Visitors to the barbershop encounter it as furniture and sculpture, an object that amplifies the room's music while anchoring its atmosphere.

The collaboration emerged from the neighborhood itself. 'time.' Barbershop functions as gathering point in Shoreditch, a place where music, conversation, and craft intersect daily. The studio saw the speaker not as technical addition but as cultural participant. By adapting the Soleus form, Wedge created something that feels native to the space: present but unhurried, functional but contemplative.

The process used binder jet printing, which fuses silica sand layer by layer. The surface carries visible evidence of its making, granular texture, printed striations, raw materiality. Within the barbershop context, this rawness resonates. The speaker doesn't perform polish or invisibility. It sits openly, its construction legible, its sand-cast form in dialogue with exposed brick, worn leather, everyday ritual.

Community response has shaped the work's meaning. Barbershop regulars treat it as landmark, something that marks the space as theirs. The speaker amplifies more than sound. It amplifies the shop's role as neighborhood anchor where design, craft, and social gathering merge without announcement. For Wedge, this is design as civic gesture: an object that serves the room while honoring the culture already present.

The piece remains at 'time.' Barbershop, where it continues to accumulate context: playlists, conversations, the daily rhythm of Shoreditch life.