{"product_id":"blue-ribbed-standing-furl-cast-resin-sculpture-115cm","title":"Blue Ribbed Standing Furl Cast Resin Sculpture - 115cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis cast resin sculpture furls on a narrow foot above a block of black marble. A broad ribbed sheet wraps around a vertical line: it opens a small scoop to the left about a third of the way up, swells into a scalloped shell on the right, and near the top flares into a broad fan to the left, with a slim raised tip carrying on past it on the right. The material is a deep blue and nearly solid low down, thinning to clear and almost colourless at the tip. Fine striations climb the stem and the fan, and curved ribs scallop the shell between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAn Axis That Is Not Actually There\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe axis this piece turns around is not there. Nothing runs up the middle of it: the sheet describes a vertical line by wrapping about it, and the line exists only because the eye completes it. That is the whole design and it sets two requirements. First, the wrap has to be consistent: if the sheet leans in or out as it rises, the implied axis bends and the piece reads as a slump rather than as a spiral. Second, each opening has to happen without the sheet losing that line, so the small scoop low on the left swings out and comes back, and the broad fan near the top opens beside the axis rather than across it. The tip is the same argument at the other end. It carries on past the body along the axis, which is what confirms the line the wrap has been implying. The striations and the scalloped ribs then do the reporting, climbing where the sheet climbs and curving where it turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 115cm including its stone this is floor work, and unlike a piece with a front it can be approached from any side: the wrap presents a different profile from every angle, which suits a position in the open rather than against a wall. The turn of a room, a stair foot, a wide landing or the space beside a doorway all work, and having no back, it can hold the middle of a hall. Give it height above the tip. A lamp placed high and a little to one side follows the spiral down and shows the turn; a flat frontal light reads it as a single leaning sheet and the axis disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Wrap, the Tip and Lifting It\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigure the difference between standard and bespoke at 3–4 weeks against 5–6. The number of turns, the height of the opening and the reach of the tip are drawn per commission, so a version wrapping twice, one whose fan opens nearer the foot, or a piece at gallery scale all come from it. Colour is agreed at order: this blue, an amber, a smoke grey, or clear throughout so the piece is only ribbing and turn. The furl is taken around the solid body at its foot, never by the fan or the tip. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA ribbed sheet furling round an axis it never shows, this furl joins our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/organic-sculptures\"\u003eorganic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/resin-sculptures\"\u003eresin sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/contemporary-modern-sculptures\"\u003econtemporary and modern sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e105cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBase\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 x 30 x 10cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCast Blue Resin on Black Marble\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54024192164187,"sku":"C281","price":3390.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C281.jpg?v=1792077428","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/blue-ribbed-standing-furl-cast-resin-sculpture-115cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}