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Title: Magnoliacea - Magnolia Manufacturer/year: Stockholm, own atelje + Ulla Forsell/Eino Mäkälä Shape/colour: Marble plate on which a glass flower and copper leaves are attached. In every corner sits an angle in copper and with a gold text it is written “seed house” and “Magnoliacea Magnolia X Soulangiana” Technique/method: Hand-shaped glass with an infamous alabaster - puder. Copper with patenting. Other: Thoughts around the object: "The beautiful name Magnolia gave Linnaeus to this genus in honor of the memory of the French physician and botanist Pierre Magnol (1638-1715). When the fir flowers with the many beautifully colored lime leaves open, a curly numerous, golden yellow rotor surrounding a cucumber-like green lozenge is blown up by many fruit leaves or carpels. A single brown or red cone-shaped fruit is formed at the time of the ripening, in which the individual chapels can still be distinguished. These burst up lengthwise and release one or two seeds, each hanging on a long thin wire. The Tree of the Forest, H.L Edlin Magnolia is an ancient tree, originally Chinese, that makes scientists, artists and ordinary mortals burst into poetry! Have you once seen as a child a splendid Magnolia tree in full bloom on bar twig you never forget it. My work reflects my and others reverence for this hearty tree. Linné’s favourite among botanical illustrators, George H Ehret, has made a work on Magnolian. It has served as my model. / Sylvia Neiglick (text from Flower Power’s exhibition catalogue for the exhibition of the same name 12 May 2007- 16 September 2007. Inscribed in the general ledger 2009-03-06