TONGUES AND FLAMES Outdoor sculpture façade. The Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA. Stefan Lindfors 1998–1999. Photo: Kyle Minor, Ramak Fazel, Heidi Culvert, Jenny Nyman In 1996 Urs Jacob asked Lindfors to create a façade that would communicate the atmosphere and activities of his hotel The Gershwin on 27th Street, lower mid-town, Manhattan. Lindfors created large-size “tongues" sticking out from the different street entrances, and additional "flames" attached to the exterior wall above. The first tongues and flames were unveiled in 1998, and later additional flames were added, climbing the walls of The Gershwin all the way to the roof top. The sculptures are welded stainless round srock and transparent fiberglass with lighting inside. Lindfors' partners in construction were Matt Crane and Kyle Minor.  Portraits of hotel owner Urs Jakob (raincoat), and of Andy Warhol’s Photographer Billy Name courtesy of the Gershwin Hotel. In 2001 The New York Times declared Lindfors' permanent sculpture installation on the façade of the Gershwin "A new land mark in lower mid-town Manhattan"....