Television Tower sculpture, turned patinated copper, 55 cm, 1960s

Turned from a single shaft, the tower rises 55 cm high — not a souvenir, but a serious table sculpture that captures the silhouette of post-war television towers with quiet precision. The dark burnished copper shaft bears three stepped platform rings, whose polished edges stand out like narrow bands of light, below which is the typical central tower basket widening and above it the needle-fine antenna tip. The form is clearly based on the Stuttgart TV Tower from 1956 — the world's first reinforced concrete television tower, which became the iconic model for an entire decade of German broadcasting towers.

The piece rests on a flat, convex, also darkly burnished plate base and, at 55 cm high, is an exceptionally large example of this class of object — most comparable pieces are 30–48 cm. Its weight and material density suggest a massive turned work, probably a journeyman's masterpiece from a metalworking profession (turner, toolmaker, or model maker) from the 1960s — such pieces were produced in German training workshops as master craftsman's examinations or journeyman's pieces and are now considered rare witnesses to post-war craftsmanship. On a sideboard, a console, or as a solitaire on a desk, the tower immediately makes an impression: vertical, calm, with the warm copper tone that shimmers depending on the light.