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Homework Tower designers: Job Smeets Nynke Tynagel design year: 2006 manufacturer: Studio Job, The Netherlands materials: cast bronze; aged wenge wood notes: homework domestic totems and tableaux A collection of eight works, each offered in a limited edition of five pieces. Part domestic utility - part heroic sculpture, these precious hand-wrought common household objects – including fully-functional cooking pots, stools, lanterns, and coal bins – hand-sculpted first in wax in magnified, exalted proportions, and then rendered in polished bronze and placed upon aged wooden pedestals reminiscent of sacred statuary or palatial historical busts, define the term ‘oxymoron’ and cast to the winds the traditional approach to both sculptural as well as design practice. dimensions: height: 86.5" Available now is No. 4 of the edition. price: $70,000.00