This article appeared in I·DEN'·TI·TY, Fall 1989

It's Off to Work We Go

- By Lynn Baxter, Photography © Peter Aaron/Esto

...Statues of the most famous Disney characters were carved from polystyrene, reinforced, coated with resin, and gilded with 24K gold. The hard part, designer report, was figuring out the three-dimensional shapes of characters that had existed only on film. Gilding solved the problem of matching colors and added a Hall of Fame look. Of necessity, the figures are placed up high: they are too fragile to be within reach.

"Disney's characters are the most widely recognized twentieth-century iconography and the most universally acknowledged," Stern explained. "They cut across all boundaries of class. Everybody in the western world, and even in the eastern world, knows them. Our job was to bring those images to the average person going up that ramp while he's waiting, give him something to think about and consider, as an explanation of the company from which he is trying to get a job."...

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