100 London things: 96
One cannot travel to St Ives very often to wallow in Barbara Hepworth sculptures, or even jaunt off to Wakefield, but one can observe and admire her work in Oxford Street:
'Winged Figure I' on John Lewis department store. They had asked that
the work ‘have some content that expresses the idea of common ownership and common interests in a partnership of thousand of workers’. The ethos of the firm greatly interested her.
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