Showing posts with label Cork Dome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cork Dome. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

David Nash Cork Structures

Back at work today and Kew is heaving with families enjoying themselves thanks to the '12 Days of Christmas' Free Entry offer. Still a couple of days to take advantage. It's much quieter behind the scenes as most people are still on leave.
One of the highlights of 2012 was having the ongoing sculpture installations of David Nash on site. I go past the Nash Conservatory (no relation!)  every day and as soon as the Cork Spire was installed in October I took Ian along to see it ( not just for scale)



It was assembled surprisingly quickly from this stash of cork bark sections  - there was scaffolding and someone blancing on a nifty-lift placing things in position.


It makes a wonderful companion piece in a different scale to the Cork Dome
I love how the colours have changed in just a few months
I wish I could afford this print which sums  up  the textures and shapes so well.