If you’ve recently visited the Hadar studio, you may have noticed what appears to be a growing forest of steel trees, along with bits of honed branches and a sea of metal pipes. The trees are part of a display commissioned by the soon-to-open Inter-Continental Hotel, at 43st. and 8th avenue. Life size, built by hand, and composed of thousands of individually cut and welded pieces, these inspired-by-nature sculptures have been months in the making. They’ve just left the shop for a protective-gloss coating, the final stage before installation begins.
The tree idea came from a desire to recycle the excess tubing left from building bikes. In accordance with the bikes, which stylistically meld biomorphic and industrial design, these sculptures accentuate the free-form beauty of natures likeness–using steel, an ingredient of urbanization, as a device implying permanence to a necessary, yet vulnerable, element of our environment.
More info, updates, and images to come!