Chelsea 2004
Right:

Pressed 100 diameter mild steel hemispheres prior to welding.
Above:

Managing Director, David Beeching, with his wife, Erica, outside the 'pod' in Diarmuid Gavin's garden - Chelsea 2004.
Right:

Hemispheres welded to form completed sphere.
        Approximately 5000 vitreous enameled spheres were used to cover the outside of Diarmuid's 'pod'.

        
The whole process was televised in the BBC 1 series, Diarmuid's Great Adventure and Steel Spinnings were delighted to have taken part.