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The Loop Fountain by Lily Clark Drips With Tranquility

03.15.23 | By
The Loop Fountain by Lily Clark Drips With Tranquility

During the depths of Great Depression, the federally sponsored programs known as the New Deal put millions of jobless Americans back to work in service of constructing a modern civic landscape that left nearly every city and town marked by inspiring communal structures characterized by their utility, craftsmanship, and artistry. It’s this optimistic legacy – realized on a smaller more intimate scale – that inspired designer Lily Clark’s Loop Fountain.

Loop Fountain shown with small arrangement of branches with blooming white flowers.

The Loop Fountain’s cast stone design means the tabletop fountain is robust enough to be used for both indoor and outdoor settings, with a small opening for an arrangement of grasses, delicate branches, or florals.

Clark’s previous fountain designs exhibit a style more akin to Brutalist aesthetics rather than the streamlined moderne and art deco-inspired design exhibited by The Loop. But regardless of their aesthetic, all of Clark’s designs share an attentive care in the culmination of senses produced by flowing water.

The gently tiered 19″D x 19″W x 6.5″H self-circulating, tabletop water feature is constructed with polymer-modified cast stone, incorporating local obsidian and rhyolitic ash granules sourced from the June Lake Loop in the Eastern Sierra. It was high up in this spectacularly scenic locale where Clark first designed the Loop Fountain while living and working surrounded by rock, water, and forest.

Lily Clark circular cast stone Loop Fountain on table top flowing with water from its 11 spouts, shown with an arrangement of branches in its top center plant arrangement receptacle against blue background.

The sound from The Loop’s eleven carved spouts is redolent of a gentle creek flowing over small rocks, a free flowing echo of an element we often aspire to be close to (you can listen to a sample of the sound here).

Lily Clark circular cast stone Loop Fountain on table top flowing with water from its 11 spouts, shown with an arrangement of branches in its top center plant arrangement receptacle.

Lily Clark circular cast stone Loop Fountain on table top flowing with water from its 11 spouts, shown with an arrangement of branches in its top center plant arrangement receptacle.

The Loop Fountain requires a 3-4 week lead time and is individually made to order, available for $1,800.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, hiking, tide pools, and road trips, a selection of his adventures and musings can be found at gregoryhan.com.