<Galleries>  <Gallery title="Vessels">       <Object name="Mood Fuge for Dining, Chicago">	<Image pic="Mood Fuge for Dining " path="images/ss/mf1.jpg" year="Private Commission 2009" Dimensions="l 230cm h 90cm w 115cm" Photographer="Ph: Tom Van Eynde" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Mood Fuge for Dining " path="images/ss/mf2.jpg" year="Private Commission 2009" Dimensions="l 230cm h 90cm w 115cm" Photographer="Ph: Tom Van Eynde" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Mood Fuge for Dining " path="images/ss/mf3.jpg" year="Private Commission 2009" Dimensions="l 230cm h 90cm w 115cm" Photographer="Ph: Tom Van Eynde" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Mood Fuge for Dining " path="images/ss/mf4.jpg" year="Private Commission 2009" Dimensions="l 230cm h 90cm w 115cm" Photographer="Ph: Tom Van Eynde" ExternalURL="" />	<![CDATA[Both sphere sculpture and functioning chandelier, with halogen lighting diffused through the spheres from the steel base plate at the ceiling. Mood Fuge for Dining was commissioned for the dining room of a private residence, home to an important art collection.The sculpture stretches over two meters in width, while descending just a meter vertically, stretching across the space and filling it with joyous light.]]>      </Object>  	  	  	  <Object name="Kalahari Blue, Massachusetts">	<Image pic="Kalahari Blue" path="images/ss/Kalahari1.jpg" year="Corporate Commission 2008" Dimensions="h 190cm d 130cm" Photographer="Private Collection" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Kalahari Blue" path="images/ss/Kalahari2.jpg" year="Corporate Commission 2008" Dimensions="h 190cm d 130cm" Photographer="Private Collection" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Kalahari Blue" path="images/ss/Kalahari3.jpg" year="Corporate Commission 2008" Dimensions="h 190cm d 130cm" Photographer="Private Collection" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[A newly opened green office building outside of Boston, incorporating the latest technology to reduce carbon emissions, has this hanging sphere sculpture in their  atrium entranceway. The colors are intended to indicate the power and force of light. Gradually the metal and spheres become more and more supple, more and more entertwined; chaotic yet dancing in and through each other making a community of flowing forms, emitting their natural force and energy.]]>      </Object>  	  	  	   <Object name="Children's Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina">	<Image pic="Children's HospitalCharlotte, North Carolina" path="images/ss/pic1.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph: Tim Buchman" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Children's HospitalCharlotte, North Carolina" path="images/ss/pic2.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="Installing" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Children's HospitalCharlotte, North Carolina" path="images/ss/pic3.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph: Tim Buchman" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[This installation is the first we have done in a public space which is also the live-in environment for large numbers of young people undergoing medical treatment. The work was chosen for its intended optimism and playfulness. Tthe colors are meant to reflect a child's sense of color, colors children naturally use and are attracted to in their own coloring and imaginings on paper with crayons. For us as artists it is a great opportunity to display our work in a social context which we hope conveys lightness and a fun sense of engagement. Passing through two floors in an enclosed atrium, there are 160 blown spheres running twenty feet in length and eight feet in width.]]>      </Object>	  	   <Object name="Country Hotel, Switzerland">	<Image pic="The  Blue Gateway 2006" path="images/ss/bluegateway-1.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The  Blue Gateway 2006" path="images/ss/bluegateway-2.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The  Blue Gateway 2006" path="images/ss/bluegateway-3.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Casablanca 2006" path="images/ss/casablanca-1.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 100cm w 150 x 120cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Casablanca 2006" path="images/ss/casablanca-2.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 100cm w 150 x 120cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Red Arc 2006" path="images/ss/redarc-only.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 320cm w 180cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Jazz Notes and Red Reef" path="images/ss/guardians-only.jpg" year="Guardian 2006" Dimensions="h 114cm - 122cm d 12.5cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Standing Spheres" path="images/ss/stanspheres-only.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="d 32cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The Zephyrs" path="images/ss/zephyrs-only.jpg" year="2006" Dimensions="h 100-130cm d 11.5 - 14cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[This piece is representative of a new, growing body of work designed to be part of the landscape, both interior and exterior. It is intended as a visual  and sculptural gateway, a fantasy through which ideas and visions may flow. The sculpture is a part of its visual  horizon which may be observed through the merging spheres. As well it is a separate whole, a purely sculptural phenomenon, in which metal and glass, color and light merge, combine, cross, and stand apart in their own idiosyncratic manner. The Vieux Manoir is an old, renowned Swiss hotel on the border of a small Swiss lake by Morat (Murten) which in Winter might possibly remind one of The Shining! It's a five star hotel and member of the famous Relais et Chateaux Hotel group.  In summer it is beautifully planted in a comfortable and relaxed ambiance. We were attracted by the beautiful park and the three hundred year old trees. Across the small lake lies the Vully with its own particular wines, and the village of Motier, where Monica spent many childhood summers with her family. Invited to install a variety of work both inside and outside the hotel for the summer, shared here are some of the pieces we have installed. The show runs through September 2nd. The hotel is located twenty minutes from Bern, and about two hours from Geneva.]]>      </Object>	      	  	        <Object name="Private Commission, Toronto">	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/privcomm-canada-1.jpg" year="Canada 2005During Installation" Dimensions="h 260cm w 300 x 480cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/privcomm-canada-2.jpg" year="Canada 2005Detail" Dimensions="h 260cm w 300 x 480cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/privcomm-canada-4.jpg" year="Canada 2005" Dimensions="h 260cm w 300 x 480cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/Deer_pict.jpg" year="Canada 2005" Dimensions="h 260cm w 300 x 480cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Our first outdoor commission, this arbor of spheres stands twelve feet tall by seventeen feet long. There are 225 spheres, most of them cut with several battuto patterns on two color under and overlay. The stainless steel frame is intended to be gradually covered over with ivy, thus giving the piece an increasingly merged, settled look within a natural environment. The piece is seen as a "living" project, a dialogue with nature, which will evolve with time and the natural growth around it, and display sharply differing aspects depending on the season of the year.]]>      </Object>	  	        <Object name="Private Commission, Lake Geneva">	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/pc-switz-1.jpg" year="Switzerland 2005" Dimensions="h 180cm w 240 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/pc-switz-pic2.jpg" year="Switzerland 2005" Dimensions="h 180cm w 240 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/PrivComm-Switz-3.jpg" year="2005" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/PrivComm-Switz-4.jpg" year="2005" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/pc-switz-pic5.jpg" year="Switzerland 2005Chandelier" Dimensions="h 50cm w 80 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Taking advantage of the given cement structural pillars at the entrance hall to a modern house overlooking the Lake of Geneva, the piece works both as a "painting" in two dimensional perspective, and as a three dimensional sculpture raching out into the space on both sides. In the adjoining dining room we installed our first small chandelier.]]>      </Object>	  	  	     <Object name="Indoor Swimming Pool, Switzerland">	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/PrivComm-Geneva-1.jpg" year="Lake Geneva 2000Detail" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph: Susana Bruell" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Private Commission" path="images/ss/PrivComm-Geneva-2.jpg" year="Lake Geneva 2000Detail" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph: Susana Bruell" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Guardians have now been installed inside and outside - in the water (a lake), in the far north (Canadian farm), at the edge of the North Sea, and in many private gardens. The most interesting may be the first, at a private indoor swimming pool in Switzerland, and recently photographed for this site. Fifteen Cortigiane and Guardiani from 1999, surround the pool house, with bases screwed directly into granite flooring.]]>      </Object>	  	  <Object name="Nestlé Headquarters, Vevey">	<Image pic="Nestlé Headquarters" path="images/ss/Nestle-5.jpg" year="Switzerland 2000" Dimensions="Completed Reception Area" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann and courtesy of Richter + Dahl Rocha" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Nestlé Headquarters" path="images/ss/nestle-pic1.jpg" year="Switzerland 2000" Dimensions="Moving the panel" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann and courtesy of Richter + Dahl Rocha" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Nestlé Headquarters" path="images/ss/Nestle-3.jpg" year="Switzerland 2000" Dimensions="h 320cm w 240 (d 48mm)Finished piece installed in the Foyer" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann and courtesy of Richter + Dahl Rocha" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Nestlé Headquarters" path="images/ss/Nestle-2.jpg" year="Switzerland 2000" Dimensions="Paolo Ferro being assisted by Brodie Nairn" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann and courtesy of Richter + Dahl Rocha" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Nestlé Headquarters" path="images/ss/Nestle-4.jpg" year="Switzerland 2000" Dimensions="Completed Reception Area" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann and courtesy of Richter + Dahl Rocha" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[The first major installation we did was for the Nestlé headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland in 2000. It is the only known example of Italian battuto techniques applied to heavy industrial laminated glass. The single piece of three laminated sheets of glass,wighing one ton, required a special glass suction holding devise and fifteen workers to move in to place. We adapted a glass cutting machine with a flexible hose, thus bringing the cutting to the glass rather than the glass to the cutting. The  pattern of cuts were adapted directly from one of our vessel pieces. The Nestlé building is now an historical national landmark building, designed by the swiss architect Jean Tschumi in 1960, and renovated by Ignacio Dahl Rocha and Jacques Richter in 2000.]]>      </Object>	  <Object name="The Circus of Spheres, CH">	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs1.jpg" year="2004                                                       general view" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs2.jpg" year="2004                                                       general view with Guardians, textil and" Dimensions="High Wire Act" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs3.jpg" year="general view of Catapault and detail of" Dimensions="The Archer" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs4.jpg" year="general view with Circo di Lune" Dimensions="and Topkapi, both for Venini" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs5.jpg" year="detail of Circo di Lune and Abaco lamps," Dimensions="all for Venini" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs6.jpg" year="general view with Circo di Lune, for Venini" Dimensions="and the Ball Wall screen" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Organized through the sponsorship of Robert Smith of Robert Smith Fine Art, this was a major exhibition featuring thirty works composed of Vessels, Guardians, and Standing Sphere Pieces. The McColl Center is a large arts education center in downtown Charlotte in a beautifully renovated city church. Over eight hundred people were present at the opening!]]>      </Object>  </Gallery></Galleries>
