'Houseball' by Claes Oldenburg

Houseball, 1996
Stainless steel, fiber-reinforced plastic, jute netting, urethane and polyvinylchloride foams; painted with polyester gelcoat
27 ft. 6 in. (8.4 m) high x 24 ft. 4 in. (7.4 m) diameter
Bethlehemkirch-Platz, Mauerstrasse, Berlin
Photo by Robert K. Sharpe


Fabricated by William Kreysler and Associates, Petaluma, California. Engineer: Juri Komendant; Project Managers: William Kreysler and Serge Labesque
Commissioned 1993 by Ronald S. Lauder
Temporarily installed in front of the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, for the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, February-May, 1996; and in Berlin September 1997