Chihuly Atlantis; Author: Chihuly, Dale; Hardback; Book

Author: Chihuly, Dale
Hardback; Book
Published: December 1999
Portland Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 1576840107

With large, full-color photographs, Chihuly Atlantis focuses on Dale Chihuly's four architectural installations in the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.The challenge was considerable -- Chihuly was commissioned to create works that would transform the new Atlantis. The results are bold, daring, site-specific installations: the eighteen-foot-high Crystal Gate; the Temple of the Sun, with 2,300 yellow, orange, and red forms radiating in a fiery globe; the opalescent white and blue Temple of the Moon; and the Atlantis Chandelier, teeming with sea life and tinged in silver and gold. Chihuly Atlantis opens with a note from the artist reflecting on the scale and unique challenges of the installation, and it displays each sculpture in close detail from concept to formation to completio