Concrete Seating - Crystal Palace Park
Seating | LCC | London 1966-1967 In 1952, the London County Council had taken over the derelict grounds of the park and as LCC's Patronage of the Arts’ programme in 1962, the committee decided to purchase a copy of Reg Butler’s sculpture ‘Girl on a Wheel’, to be placed on a mound in the ‘general layout by the architects with seats, planting, etc.’ By 1966, the commission had still not materialised and the sculptor later admitted that his work had become ‘too intimate and personal’ for public sites. This situation possibly enabled the landscape architecture to take on a more prominent role,the central tall panels contained information boards and the outer edge finished with wooden planks to form seatbacks. The area is now affectionately know as Stone Penge.