Sola Prism Stones are "barrel polished" glass prisms, finished to resemble a shining stone.

Glass prisms are often used in projectors, where they play the role of separating irradiated light into RGB and recombining it. Because of the high level of quality required, prisms manufactured for this purpose are often discarded, due to chips and scratches.

However, by using a technique called "barrel polishing", the previously discarded prisms are given new life as Sola Prism Stones, taking on an appearance similar to sea glass, with the uneven and varied shapes of natural stones.

Ordinary prisms transmit light and render colourful graphics on walls and shadows, but prism stones diffuse it, so that coloured light dwells inside the glass - ever changing as the stone is turned.

dimensions
height: 2.3cm
width: 2.3cm
depth: 2.3cm
weight: 20g

Nb. measurements are approximate, as no prism stone is alike.

Polished glass.
Made in Japan.

See also the matching Sola Light Base - perfect for displaying Sola Prism Stones by lighting them from below.

Also see the Sola Prism Mobile, featuring a glass prism encased in a transparent cube of acrylic resin and suspended from an invisible string, as well as our complete range of Sola products and accessories.

The Sola Philosophy

3.8 billion years have passed since the first single life began on Earth. Later, this life evolved into flowers, fruit and seeds, maintained in life cycles that continued for millions upon millions of generations.

The colours and materials each have their own unique purposes. These intriguing shapes have formed unpretentiously for each functional purpose by the hand of Mother Nature.

By observing a small plant carefully, we are able to glimpse a more perfect world. We express the name “Sola” with the Chinese kanji 宙, which means “universe.”  This kanji explains everything we know and don’t know, including time and space, with a single character. Sola also has another meaning: “blue sky.” An imaginary world spreads out like the sky before us.

See all our Sola products and accessories.