Token House
12 Tokenhouse Lane, the City of London
Token House, designed by E. A. Grunning, built 1872.
Token House was commissioned by a private client who started their business in this building. A new level of sculptural challenge for me, Token House represents 35 hours of work, 26 hours of which was spent sculpting the floriate details and animals, and carving the mouldings.
The finished piece is mounted on a 20cm backplate, with the door itself 15cm tall. The original piece has additional customisation to make it unique for the commissioner - the photo above right shows one of the open edition casts.
Some 18 hours later we can see the sculpted details in green and grey. Whilst I had completed organic forms previously for Temple Bar and Moorgate, this represented a new level and extent of miniature work.
This Leopard fits on my pinkie nail; it is 6mm tall.
Here is the beginning of the sculptural phase. Having drawn up an elevation and subsequently modelled it in Blender, I 3D printed what can be seen in bright white.
You can see it here at the top of the tableau.
In this image you can also see the carved and sculpted mouldings, as well as the Green Man over the door.
Here we have the floral and foliate detail on the pilaster. These details were sculpted with a needle.
This was a challenging piece completed on a tight timeline. The commission arrived on 27 Nov and was in the client’s hands by 17 Dec. This was concurrent to continuing work on another project.