Silver has been among man's most prized of nature's gifts since antiquity and the allure is easy to understand given its dazzling shade of white. Soft and easy to work with, the metal practically begged to be turned into coins and jewelry and all other manner of treasure to be held and beheld.

Despite being a precious metal, silver is a rather delicate metal chemically speaking. It slowly tarnishes in air turning black or yellow as everyone who's familiar with grandma's silverware can attest. And yet when freshly cleaned it has an unmatched sparkle.

Here we capture this sparkle permanently by placing spheres of ultra-pure silver metal sealed in argon gas at the center of this beautifully made cube of Lucite acrylic.