Tower
Tower
Tower
Tower
Tower
Tower
Tower
Tower

© Permindar Kaur. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Simon Maddison / Art UK

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This work consists of seven stacked steel chairs that make a high tower. The largest chair at the bottom supports the smaller chairs above. The work playfully challenges you to try and work out which chair is of usual scale, but also raises questions about conformity. The Spirella Building was a corset factory, this being the main industry in Letchworth when it was built in the early 1900s. The work references the utopian ideals that made Letchworth the first garden city.
Title

Tower

Date

2014

Medium

steel

Measurements

H 450 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

SG6_SM_S045

Acquisition method

funded by North Hertfordshire District Council

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

North Hertfordshire District Council

Custodian

North Hertfordshire District Council

Access

at all times

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Located at

Spirella Centre, Bridge Road, Letchworth

SG6 4ET