venerdì 12 maggio 2017

Mosaic

The stair of the good humor

Place: The 16th Avenue Tiled in S.Francisco
Artists of the work: Aillen Barr and Colette Crutcher
Year: 2005

The stair of the good humor is a mosaic realized from Aillen Barr and Colette Crutcher. The stair un S.Francisco is inspired to the various stairways of all the world, especially the stair of "Santa Maria del Monte" in Caltagirone, Catania.
In fact the inagural ribbon  of the staircase of S.Francisco was cut by the mayor of the city of Caltagirone.
The job of the two artists has lasted one year and half and it counts around 2000 handmade tiles and 75000 very colorful fragments of tiles, glasses and mirrors ; 220 names of donors have been entered among the tiles To advertise the city.