Knowledge

Sculpture on Mallorca: what to settle before you buy

Anyone buying a large sculpture for a garden for the first time has four questions, and finds remarkably little of use on them online.

We have written down our answers, in the form we give them at an appointment.

This is not a catalogue. It sets out what you should know before you buy anywhere, including when you do not buy from us.

Buying and deciding

What an outdoor sculpture costs, in what order to go about it, and what happens when you start with the object instead of the place.

Salt air, sun, wind. What each material does on Mallorca, and which part of that is ageing and which is damage.

Size, sightline, light. The common mistake is not the wrong object but the one that is too small.

Foundation, crane, access, securing. The part nobody factors in until it is due.

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