The futuristic Karlsson KA5698BK

Our clock of the week is the futuristic and very modern wall clock Karlsson KA5698BK. It consists solely of black cubes and therefore has no numbers or hour markers. These cubes are attached individually, allowing you to determine the size and shape of the Karlsson wall clock when hanging it up.

The futuristic look

Although the meaning of futuristic as a term relating to predictions about the future has been part of our language only since around 1950, the word itself is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. The adjective futuristic first appeared in the English language to describe the avant-garde artistic and social movement that was founded in Milan in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and proclaimed in his Futurist Manifesto.

This movement, known in Italian as Futurismo and in English as Futurism, aimed to abolish the old and celebrated modern industrial life with its technological progress and urban modernity, the beauty of machines, speed and power, and it ranged from architecture to painting and everyday products.

Futurism in a cube look

In this artistically rendered futuristic style, the cube elements are taken up. The cube, from the German word for "to throw," because it is thrown in dice games, is one of the five Platonic solids, more precisely a three-dimensional polyhedron with eight corners, where three faces meet at each one.

Our clock of the week Karlsson KA5698BK

This Karlsson KA5698BK wall clock has a black metal cube to which the black hands are attached. The markers are formed by additional small black metal cubes that can be placed on the wall in any arrangement. This means the shape and size of this wall clock are completely variable.

The same KA5698GD clock is also available in gold, with gold-colored metal cubes. These are attached in exactly the same way, so it is the same wall clock, just in a different color.