Specifying a Sculpture for a Hotel Lobby
Lobby pieces have constraints that garden pieces do not: fixed ceilings, live operations and a delivery route through a finished building.
Home Decorations Sculpture
Stainless Steel Flame Decoration
Stainless Steel Flame Decoration is a mirror polished stainless steel flame form built to order in our Shenzhen workshop.
Product Overview
What This Piece Is
Stainless Steel Flame Decoration is a mirror polished stainless steel flame form built to order in our Shenzhen workshop.
Flame forms carry movement upward, which works where a space needs height rather than mass.
Stainless steel is the workhorse of outdoor sculpture because it carries its own corrosion resistance instead of relying on a coating.
The minimum order is one piece.
Stainless Steel Flame Decoration produced by Xinhengda Sculpture in Shenzhen
Key Benefits
Why Buyers Specify This Piece
- Fabricated in stainless steel, so the surface you approve is the surface that stays, with no paint film to fail.
- The mirror polished surface picks up sky, planting and passing people, so the piece changes through the day instead of reading as one fixed object.
- The final surface is worked by hand, so the form is refined against the eye rather than left as a machine finish.
- One flame form is a full order. A single project in hotel lobbies does not have to wait for a container quantity.
- Flame forms carry movement upward, which works where a space needs height rather than mass.
- Photographs of the finished flame form standing in the workshop are sent for approval before it is crated.
- The crate is built around the finished geometry of this flame form, with foam contact on every mirror polished face.
Application Scenarios
Where It Is Installed
Placed in a hotel lobby, on an arrival axis or beside a reception desk, where it is the first object a guest registers.
Used in a mall atrium, a retail entrance or a showroom, as a fixed point that shoppers photograph and navigate by.
Placed in a living room, a corridor or a private garden, at a scale that suits a domestic ceiling height.
Who It Is For
The People Who Order This
- Private clients commissioning a single mirror polished flame form for hotel lobbies
- Architects matching a flame form to a material palette that already uses stainless steel
- Facility and estate managers replacing a tired feature in hotel lobbies with something that needs no repainting
- Landscape architects specifying a mirror polished flame form as the focal piece for hotel lobbies
Problems It Solves
What This Piece Removes From the Project
- Coated sculptures fade and flake where sun and rain hit hardest. Stainless steel removes that maintenance line from the budget.
- A poorly polished mirror surface shows the weld lines and a wavy reflection. Grinding the seams flat before polishing is what removes both.
- A purely machine finished piece reads flat. Hand finishing is what gives the surface its depth.
- A flame form specified late has to fit dimensions that are already fixed. Working from your drawing means the piece adapts instead of the scheme.
- Suppliers who subcontract the finishing cannot answer for the surface. The stainless steel here is cut, welded and mirror polished under one roof.
Technical Features
How It Is Constructed
- Twisted surface with the internal frame following the rise of the form
- Mirror polished by hand through successive grits until the reflection is undistorted across the whole surface
- Hand worked final surface with the tool direction controlled across the form
- Fabricated throughout in stainless steel with matching filler where the material is welded
- Weld seams placed on the lines of the flame form so they read as edges rather than repairs
- Drainage and vent holes positioned so water leaves the flame form instead of sitting inside it
Specifications
Recorded Specification
| Material | Stainless steel |
|---|---|
| Finish | Mirror polished and Hand finished |
| Form | Flame Form |
| Category | Home Decorations Sculpture |
| Size | Quoted per project |
| Minimum Order | 1 piece |
| Placement | Quoted per project |
| Packing | Foam lined plywood crate built to the finished geometry |
| Origin | Shenzhen China |
Dimensions, weight and lead time for this flame form are confirmed with the quotation, because it is built to your drawing rather than to a home decorations sculpture catalogue size.
Materials
What It Is Made From
- Stainless steel
- Stainless or galvanised fixings sized for this flame form and supplied with it
Manufacturing Process
How It Is Made
1
Cutting the sheet to the developed pattern
2
Forming and rolling each panel
3
Welding the panels into the finished form
4
Grinding and levelling the seams
5
Polishing or texturing to the specified finish
6
Cleaning and passivation before packing
Quality Control
What Is Checked and When
- Material checked against the order before cutting
- Seams inspected after grinding
- Surface reviewed under raking light
- Base plate and fixing points checked to the drawing
- Workshop trial assembly before crating
Customisation Options
What Can Be Changed
- The flame form split into transportable sections where access to hotel lobbies is restricted
- Lighting designed into the flame form with the cable route concealed
- Your own branding applied to the flame form for resale as OEM or ODM work
Comparison
How It Compares With the Alternatives
Compared with Cast stone or GRC
Cast stone reads heavy and chips on the edges. Stainless steel gives a thinner profile, a cleaner line and a surface that survives handling.
Compared with A cast or moulded reproduction
A reproduction repeats a fixed size. This flame form is built to your dimensions, which is the whole reason to commission one.
Compared with Buying through a trading company
A trader passes drawings along and adds a margin. Here the flame form is drawn and built by the same people you are talking to.
Use Guide
Looking After It Once It Is Installed
- Rinse with clean water and dry with a soft cloth
- Neutral detergent for marks and fingerprints
- Keep iron filings and construction dust off the surface
- No abrasive pads on finished faces
- Fingerprints show on a mirror surface. A neutral detergent wash and a dry microfibre cloth is all it takes.
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Guides That Apply To This Piece
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the minimum order quantity
One piece. There is no container minimum, which is why single projects in hotel lobbies are a normal part of the workload here.
Why stainless steel rather than something cheaper
Stainless steel is the workhorse of outdoor sculpture because it carries its own corrosion resistance instead of relying on a coating. Coated sculptures fade and flake where sun and rain hit hardest. Stainless steel removes that maintenance line from the budget.
Will the mirror finish show the welds
Not if the seams are ground level before polishing starts. Every weld on a mirror piece is dressed flat first, which is why the reflection stays undistorted across the joint.
How much of this is made by hand
The forming, seam dressing and final surface are hand work. Only the cutting and the heavier forming are machine operations.
How is a flame form this size packed and shipped
A plywood crate is built around the finished geometry with foam on every mirror polished face. Large flame forms are split into sections at joints chosen during design, trial assembled in the workshop, then marked so they go back together in the same order on site.
What do you need from me to quote
The position, the height or overall size you want, and any drawing, render or reference photograph you already have. For hotel lobbies a photograph of the space is often enough to start.
What is the lead time
Lead time depends on the size of the flame form, the mirror polish and how much design work it needs, so it is confirmed with the quotation rather than promised in advance. Send the brief and the schedule comes back with the price.
Quote This Piece for Your Project
Send the position, the height you want and any drawing you have. The quotation comes back against your figures, not against a catalogue size.