A public fountain installed in West Philadelphia for three decades, then hidden from sight for 16 years, has been transferred to the Chestnut Hill neighborhood.

Harry Bertoia, a sculptor famous for designing midcentury furniture, was commissioned in 1967 by the city of Philadelphia to make a sculptural fountain for the old Civic Center building in University City. The center was being expanded at the time, and the city’s One Percent for Art program required creation of a piece of public art.

“Free Interpretation of Plant Forms” is a huge abstraction of a flower. Bertoia curved common copper tubing into giant undulating petals and coated the whole thing in bronze.

(via Long-dormant Bertoia sculpture transplanted to Chestnut Hill — NewsWorks)