Cosanti Bells – An assemblage: 68.5″ long from the top of the bell assembly to the bottom of the ringer fins & 23″ across at the widest point. (from the casanti.com website)
COSANTI HAND-MADE BRONZE BELLS – I was at a friend’s social-distancing back yard party recently, when I noticed her collection of COSANTI bells. Each bell is unique with a glorious patina, handcrafted out of bronze by skilled artisans. The patinas range from green to turquoise or from orange to red. I have admired these bells for most of my adult life, but have never owned one. – Jack Atkinson
(Back Story)
COSANTI is the gallery and studio of Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri; it was his residence until his death in 2013. Located in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It is open to the public. Cosanti is marked by terraced landscaping, experimental earth-formed and concrete structures, and its famous sculptural wind-bells.
Soleri is best known for Arcosanti, the prototype for an arcological “urban laboratory” begun in 1970 in the high desert about seventy miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. Cosanti is where Soleri and his wife, Colly (Carolyn Woods) Soleri, established their residence in 1956, on a site just a few miles from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, where Soleri had studied. Cosanti has been designated an Arizona Historic Site.
