Fit for a Queen

When Stanley Kubrick wanted a monolith for the making of 2001, he reached out to local company, Stanley Plastic to craft the monolith from a solid piece of transparent plastic. However, Kubrick wasn't thrilled with the screen tests, and the sparkling clear polymer block was eventually swapped out for the dense, black basalt. This massive, unwanted perspex lump stayed in the Borehamwood film studios until Arthur Fleischmann, a talented sculptor born in Bratislava and living in London, acquired it. Fleischmann transformed it into a beautiful crystal crown for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Celebrations in 1977.