@danielarsham on the one piece of advice he was given from his mentor that most resonates with him: “The longer you wait to take that chance in your life, the shorter the future is going to be when you arrive there.” #FallonTonight
Finishing the last paintings for my exhibition “20 YEARS” opening at @perrotin Paris September 2nd and @perrotin NYC on September 6th. Mark your calendars. I look forward to seeing you there. 🙇🏻
Arsham Studio Archive: ‘Arsham Droplet’ (2024)
In 2024 I created the @hublot Arsham Droplet as a reinterpretation of the pocket watch, positioned somewhere between timepiece, sculpture, and wearable artifact. Developed over three years with Hublot’s engineering team, the Droplet combines influences from streamlined industrial design, automotive forms, and organic silhouettes into a teardrop-shaped titanium case suspended from a modular chain system.
The piece houses Hublot’s manually wound Meca-10 movement, visible through sapphire crystal elements integrated throughout the case. Satin-finished titanium, rubber detailing, and transparent sapphire components allow the movement to remain partially exposed from multiple angles, while interchangeable attachments let the object shift between pocket watch, pendant, or desk piece.
The Droplet was first introduced during Dubai Watch Week before traveling internationally through a series of Hublot presentations and exhibitions. The project was accompanied by campaign films and imagery exploring the object as both horological instrument and sculptural artifact.
Releasing this Friday at 12 noon Eastern time.
The Venus Twins Necklace exists between two timelines. One half rendered in polished white gold, impossibly precise and reflective. The other cast in patinated bronze, carrying the surface of oxidation and erosion. A clean fracture divides object from artifact, contemporary from ancient.
The chain becomes part of the sculpture itself, composed of miniature white gold hands that suspend the pendant like a constructed relic assembled across eras. Produced as a limited edition of only 18 pieces, each work arrives in a custom wood and suede-lined box designed to live beyond the unveiling as part of the piece itself.
Official drop: May 15 at 12PM ET.
Visit my website now to sign up for more information in advance of the release. Link in bio
Arsham Studio Archive: ‘Porsche 911 RWBA’ (2023)
Back in 2023, I collaborated with Akira Nakai and @rwb_official on a one-off Porsche 911 RWBA, the first and only slantnose RWB ever built on a 964-generation 911. After completing the car at RWB headquarters in Chiba, we brought it into Tokyo and photographed it through the streets of Akihabara at night, drawing from the atmosphere and visual language surrounding Japanese street racing culture, manga, and the city itself.
At some point, you have to stop thinking about it and actually do it…
This is a note from my mentor.
I’ve been archiving his advice for years.
I reveal who he is in my book.
Available now via the link in my bio.
Arsham Studio Archive: ‘Solid Platinum Key for 930A’ (2020)
In 2020, I developed a custom key as part of the 930A project, a complete reworking of a 1986 Porsche 911 Turbo. The intention was to extend the language of the car into every object connected to it, including the key itself.
Produced with @eyefunny_official in Japan, the piece was cast in solid platinum (PT950) and treated with an eroded surface, aligning it with the material vocabulary of the car. The original Porsche wordmark was replaced with “ARSHAM,” shifting the object from a standard component into something more personal and specific to the project.
The key functions as both a tool and an artifact, scaled down but consistent with the larger ideas of permanence, material weight, and the notion of future relics that run through the 930A project.
Arsham Studio Archive: ‘Mercedes-Benz Steering Wheel’ (2015)
In 2015, I produced a series of eroded Mercedes-Benz steering wheels, cast at a 1:1 scale from the W124 generation. The works translate a functional interior component into a set of four sculptural studies, each varying in density and tone. Composed from materials such as hydrostone, crushed glass, mineral aggregates, and crystal erosions, the surfaces shift from light to dark through the inclusion of volcanic ash and metallic elements, creating a progressive weathering across the series.
The steering wheel, an object of control and contact, is recontextualized here as a future relic. The repetition across four casts allows subtle differences in composition and surface to register as a gradient of time.
Back at the Art Compound. I have a number of works to finish this summer for my first exhibition in Finland opening October 8th in Helsinki @makasiinicontemporary 💫 Mark your calendars
