Client: White Elephant Palm Beach
Location: Palm Beach, FL, United States
Completion date: 2019
Artwork budget: $31,000
Project Team
project manager
Ned Grace
Ausmerica LLC
construction manager
Stephen Karp
New England Development
sculptor
Fredrick Prescott
Prescott Studio
Overview
This project consists of a welded steel sculpture of an elephant, 8’ x 3’10” x 10’ and finished in a white powder coat. The head is balanced on a bearing to nod in the wind, or at the slightest touch of a hand.
Goals
Designing the correct size of the elephant was essential to fit in the courtyard entry to the hotel.
Process
This sculpture is the second White Elephant sculpture for the New England Development company small hotel chain. There is a similar sculpture placed at the White Elephant Hotel in Nantucket. The developers reached out to Prescott eleven years after the first commission to create a second sculpture for the new hotel in Palm Beach.