RARE EARLY ’70s BRONZE ABSTRACT PLANTER BOX BY McCARROLL & GILLESPE FOR FORMS+SURFACES Andrew Trimboli MARSHALL STUDIOS soon became a

MARSHALL STUDIOS soon became a hotbed for the production of modern

While the earliest history of the company remains somewhat murky

they went to the Frankfurt trade fair every winter

'Libello' (dragonfly) and 'Grazia' (1959)

orange-on-black

RARE EARLY ’70s BRONZE ABSTRACT PLANTER BOX BY McCARROLL & GILLESPE FOR FORMS+SURFACES Andrew Trimboli MARSHALL STUDIOS soon became aFour 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