ATELIER / THE WORKSHOP

PRECISION AS A DISCIPLINE.
OBJECTS BUILT TO A MUSEUM STANDARD.

SPECIMIX is a single-room atelier producing kinetic objects for permanent collections and private desks. We engineer frictionless mechanisms, anti-gravity instruments, and optical impossibilities — each one isolated, precise, hypnotic. Nothing decorative. Nothing disposable.

Every object begins as a constraint problem: how to sustain motion without a motor, hold mass against gravity without a wire, or fold space into a surface that has no end. The answer is always geometry, tolerance, and material discipline. We machine from solid billet, never cast. We calibrate by hand, never automate. A single unit can take eleven hours of bench time before it earns a serial number.

We do not produce in volume. We do not take commissions. We release objects when they meet a standard we can defend — and retire them when we can improve them. The vault is small by design.

PROCESS

HOW WE BUILD

004 STAGES
01DESIGN

Parametric CAD modelling to 0.01 mm tolerance. Every surface, mass, and centre of gravity computed before material is touched.

02MACHINE

5-axis CNC from solid billet — aluminium, titanium, or steel. No castings, no composites, no compromise.

03CALIBRATE

Each mechanism tuned by hand. Bearings seated, magnets aligned, fluids balanced. A single unit can take eleven hours.

04SEAL

Final inspection, serialisation, and packing into a custom-milled foam insert. Shipped insured, signature required.

SPEC

MATERIALS

PRIMARY ALLOYAerospace Aluminium 6061-T6
OPTICALBorosilicate Glass
BEARINGSFrictionless Ceramic (Si₃N₄)
MAGNETICSNeodymium N52 Array
SURFACEBead-Blasted Titanium Grade 5
STEELPolished Stainless 316 / Carbon
008OBJECTS IN PRODUCTION
0.01MM TOLERANCE
48HINSURED FREIGHT
01ATELIER

The vault is open. Every object ships within 48 hours, insured.

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