Here’s a gallery of work from the last 5 years of 5forty. We’ll try to get some of these their own posts and galleries as time goes on.

The Cape Henry DNA sculpture was completed in September of 2007, but was previously unposted. Here it is in all of its glory. The DNA sculpture is made of laser-cut anodized aluminum sheet for the base pairs and machined aluminum rods representing the chemical bonds. The sculpture is 12 feet long and about 3 feet in diameter. It is comprised of approximately 5,000 parts and is suspended from a 7 foot square skylight over a stairwell. It took us most of a day working at the top of fully-extended 28′ ladders, to attach the custom anchors and raise the sculpture into position.

The teak tables and file storage unit are now complete. The teak slabs were obtained from Exotic Home located across Granby St. from the 5forty studio and the Jatoba is from Yukon Lumber. The tables are simple slabs of teak bolted to welded steel frames of 2″ square tube with a 120 grit flap-wheel finish. The file storage unit has a welded steel tube frame with planks of Jatoba bolted to the top. The storage unit has two cabinets, two custom-made legal-size file racks, and two 8 inch drawers. The cabinet doors and drawer fronts are bent cold-rolled steel sheet with their original mill finish.