This is Split Button, also by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. You can see Split Button in the Blanche P. Levy Park (The Green) at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Across The Green from Split Button is the Benjamin Franklin monument we discussed earlier. Some university students claim that one of Ben’s buttons popped off and landed across the park.

Food for thought: Are buttons important? Are they works of art? Many monuments, like the one of Ben Franklin, are raised off the ground on architectural supports called pedestals. Do monuments need pedestals? How do you think Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen would answer these questions?

To learn more about Split Button see the University of Pennsylvania's Web site at:
http://www.upenn.edu/admissions/tour/tourstop.php?stop=2