Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in this month’s edition of Prim Perfect. There are SIXTEEN stores taking part this month – and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.
Today’s clue comes from ArkAngel Designs, the store belonging to Angelica Zuma on the beautiful island of Arcana Nuevo. Angelica’s home there was the Readers’ Home of the Month in our August issue. The great house is, of course, stunningly beautiful, but no viewer should miss the chance to explore Angelica’s shop too, where she sells many of the features that she has used in Arcana Nuevo and also original products. All are beautifully designed to the same high standard that one would expect.
This item is a glass light, one of several one sale. Here, I particularly like the way that the design on the glass picks up on the concept of light radiating out – a sunburst in rich warm colours that will actually mediate the light when the lamp is lit. It’s an amusing concept.
The presentation of the lamp – its delicacy offset by hanging it on a thick, heavy and slightly rusty chain – is also characteristic of the design ethos of Arcana Nuevo, which draws its inspiration from many sources: partly Myst, slightly Jules Vernian/Vidocq, and definitely the Age of Rust – where a love of the love of antiquity is blended with technology, for, as Angelica says, rust suits both genres.
As well as here in the store, that can be seen in the telescopes, gyroscopes and other optical instruments that are found throughout Arcana – some proudly dominating the exterior of the whole house, some encountered swinging in silent, mysterious parabolas as you explore the house’s interior. These are all a rich, dark red colour, the rust of antiquity forming a patina on these items of technology – albeit, in many cases, a technology that has a long and venerable history.
But, to get back to the treasure hunt competition, what you have to do is to find as many prim counts as you can, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreak question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 26). The person to find the most prim counts will win – and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker.
Also: – you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can – by December 6th.
See our earlier clue here:
Autumn Treasure Hunt – Clue 1: Elegance in Design by Ally
Another clue will be appearing shortly!
Prim Perfect 
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
What don’t you agree with, Idetroce? I’m curious!