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Barton "Bart" James Christner, M.F.A., B.S.

UX Leadership; executive-level project management & design

Barton James Christner

The Spalla Merkaba

For the Collector

An object that does not need you to explain it.

Rightness

Most beautiful things could have been otherwise. This one could not. That is the rare pleasure a collector knows at once: owning something exactly and finally right, and knowing you saw it before the world did.

The pleasure of the one right thing

There is a particular joy in living with an object that needs no explaining. Guests stop. They lean in. They look for the flaw, cannot find it, and then look at you a little differently for having chosen it.

It comes from an artist who has lived with this form for thirty years, and you can feel that patience in it. Nothing is hurried, nothing is approximate. It asks to be looked at slowly, and it rewards every look.

Not jewelry, not a toy, not a decoration. Something rarer: a thing that is exactly what it is.
A hand holding a Spalla Merkaba of spheres up to the sun over the beach at Flagler Pier, Florida, birds crossing the sky
An early prototype of the Spalla Merkaba of spheres, held up to the sun. Flagler Pier, Florida 2018.
Drag to turn it.

Starburst effect shown for illustration only, not included
with product. Spalla Merkaba enlarged to show detail.

Available now

Spalla Merkaba: BartStar in a Stargate/Portal

People come to the Spalla Merkaba for its beauty as a form; for its geometric precision, drawn from the Platonic solids; as an object that helps one raise consciousness; and as something to meditate on.

$99.99

Limited Edition: Nos. 9 to 99

Handcrafted, never mass-produced. Each of the first 99 is assembled by hand, then numbered, signed and dated by the artist, Barton James Christner. Be among the first to own one.

Custom-made to order. Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for shipment and delivery.

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Spalla Historical and Metaphysical Learning Institute

Contact the founders

contact@bartonjames3.com

Barton James Christner, M.F.A.

Owner/Founder, designer and maker
412-969-6456
bartonjames3.com

Dr. Lawrence A. Spalla, Ph.D.

Owner/Founder, historian
602-692-4284
DrSpalla.com

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