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Installation of the Asian Art Museum’s bell stand for Oshogatsu, the Buddhist New Year’s Ceremony [December 31, 2003]
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The San Francisco Asian Art Museum has a large bronze temple bell from Japan. They set it up at New Years and invited the public in to ring the traditional 108 strokes on New Year’s Eve. We were asked to create a structure that was strong, safe, easy to erect and deconstruct, and one that would pack up easily in a small space to be stored for the rest of the year. We wanted it to demonstrate traditional joinery and to be made of salvaged wood.
[Photo Credit: Joinery Structures]