Art Guide at The Dorchester

THE LOBBY
HONEYCOMB CASTS,
GOLD LEAF AND RESIN
Sophie Coryndon
We begin our stroll through the English garden at
the check-in desk, where the welcome is as golden
as the art. Here, on the right-hand side of the lobby,
Sophie Coryndon’s wall sculpture transforms the
miniature into the monumental in a celebration
of nature’s vital plant pollinators.
Having always been fascinated by bees and the
golden honeycomb they produce, Sophie and her
team took fragments of comb and cast them into
larger fragments, joining them together to form
huge sheets of beeswax. These were used as moulds
to cast plaster, which were then gilded and joined
together. For a final flourish, the individual cells
are filled with resin, tinted to match the honey made
from different species of trees found in Hyde Park.
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