Playful Seating for Midsummer Lawn

Duration: 2014Client: Berkeley GroupArtist: James Hopkins
Partners: MDM PropsLocation: Cambridge Riverside, Cambridge
Services: Public Art DeliveryTypologies: Public RealmTags: Arts, Furniture (Street & Interior), Play

A sculpture and landscape artwork for Cambridge. Solid cast bronze benches designed through catoptric anamorphosis are placed around a mirror finished stainless steel cylinder. The mirror transforms the distorted benches into the perfect image of two domestic / school chairs. The surrounding amphitheatre completes the artwork as a playful space for residents and visitors that references the sites history as a school since the 19th century.