Wedding Cake — Equals Consulting

Client Waddesdon Estate
Project Sculpture
Location Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Services Cost management
Status Completed

Owned by the Rothschild family, the sprawling 600 acre Waddesdon Estate is near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. We have been helping the estate with various cost management services and are currently assisting them with an ambitious new commission. Wedding Cake – a 12-metre-high sculptural pavilion in the form of a three-tiered wedding cake, clad entirely in ceramic tiles – is a major new work by celebrated Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, opening at Waddesdon in summer 2023.

Part sculpture, part architectural garden folly, Wedding Cake is an extraordinary, enormous, fully immersive sculpture which combines pâtisserie and architecture. It offers an intricate and richly sensory experience – glazed in pale pinks, greens and blues, beset with sculptural ornament and complete with the sounds of trickling water and a site-specific lighting scheme. Wedding Cake is Vasconcelos’ most ambitious commission to date, described by the artist as “a temple to love” that celebrates festivity and marriage.

Equals have helped the client with the contract documents and delivered post-contract cost management services on this unique project through to completion.