Richard Lippold

Lippold was an engineering genius, but we've been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe,...People's mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like they're watching a spider spin a web of blazing gold,..."The more that goes up, the more exquisite it gets.

Works

• Ad Astra, at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
• Aerial Act, at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut
• Orpheus and Apollo, at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City,
• Radiant I, at the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, 1957
• Sun, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which includes more than two miles of gold wire
• World Tree, within the Walter Gropius-designed Harvard Graduate Center at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Fire Bird at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts in Costa Mesa, California
• Ex Stasis at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Wings of Welcome at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
• Encounter at Fairlane Town Center, Dearborn, Michigan
• Flight at MetLife, New York, NY