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Under contract to the City of London, we regularly maintain over 80 public sculptures, fountains and plaques, including this sculpture located in Ben Johnson Place near the exhibition halls entrance on the Barbican Estate.

This abstract sculpture consists of 21 stainless steel pipes arranged in an offset vertical spiral, set into a circular pebble paved base, and is by Charlotte Mayer. Born 1929 in Prague, Charlotte Mayer studied at Goldsmith's College (1945-9) and then at the RCA (1949-52) under Frank Dobson.

The piece won the RSBS Best Public Sculpture Award for 1990.