RARE EARLY ’70s BRONZE ABSTRACT PLANTER BOX BY McCARROLL & GILLESPE FOR FORMS+SURFACES Andrew Trimboli While the earliest history of

While the earliest history of the company remains somewhat murky

they went to the Frankfurt trade fair every winter

Mogens Koch

Resembling the form of a circus tent

orange-on-black

RARE EARLY ’70s BRONZE ABSTRACT PLANTER BOX BY McCARROLL & GILLESPE FOR FORMS+SURFACES Andrew Trimboli While the earliest history ofFour panels of bonded bronze, designed by Billy Joe McCarroll and David Gillespe for FORMS+SURFACES of California, adorn this unlined wooden planter box. Heavely textured, impasto abstractions, seemingly formed by haphazard strokes from a trowel or palette knife, decorate four sides of the cube, mimicking the application of Venetian plaster. Produced in the 1970s. Bonded bronze, aka cold cast bronze, is made by pouring a mixture of liquid polymer