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Located in the heart of Manhattan's Little Italy, the DeSoto School is one of New York's oldest school structures. For the commission, the artist designed a terrazzo floor and glass block masonry for the first floor lobby; an area which extends into two adjacent rooms on the first floor level. Twenty individual brass inserts were imbedded into the black and green floor. In addition to these figurines, three brass strips, bent into a wave-like shape, run the length of the lobby floor. Two additional terrazzo designs representing nature and technology were created for the anteroom entrance to the cafeteria left of the lobby, and a small waiting room to the right of the lobby. Twenty designs which correspond with the brass inserts were etched onto individual glass blocks and installed in the glass block wall above the terrazzo floor. "