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Materials:
Steel, urethane, Sequoia
Size: The
steel and wood stand is 81" tall x 44" wide. The bell is
22" tall with an 8"diameter.
Description: A
three step urethane process is used on the bell and the arch. A
rose bouquet is sculpt in steel and meticulously air brushed using the
same three step candy urethane process.
The wooden uprights
and planter box are constructed using wood from the protected Giant
Sequoia Redwood.
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This species of giant redwood
has been protected since 1902. Sequoias are the largest living
thing on the earth. They are from the fern family and are the second
lightest weight wood when dry, balsa being the lightest. The trees are
native to an area only 50 miles wide and 200 miles long in the Southern
Sierras. The particular tree that this lumber comes from was
one of the top 100 in size. It was 328 feet tall and 27 feet in
diameter! The estimated age of the tree is 28 hundred years.
In 1964 a big snow and wind
storm caused this giant to fall. In 1974 the tree went up for bid,
it needed to be removed from where it had fallen. Two men from
Santa Cruz, California won the bid because of their proposed
non-intrusive method of its removal from the forest.
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Materials:
Steel, Honduras mahogany.
Size: The
steel and wood stand is 81" tall x 44" wide.
Center bell is 30" tall with a 9" diameter. The two side
bells are 22" tall with an 8" diameter.
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