The Art of Totems

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Totems and stacks, like towers and skyscrapers, have long fascinated humans. Arranging things skywards, to create monoliths from all manner of objects, has gone from something with spiritual significance to an aesthete's dream. Here is a stack of our favourites from recent times.

Godfather of the Memphis movement, Ettore Sottsass, created many a modern totem. Stacks of smooth, pleasing shapes finished in the...