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I happened to be cutting some plywood today as part of a fireplace rebuild and so took the opportunity to cut ten 3½"x3½" pieces.

Components (see Dimensions):

• Square Forms was made of seven elements projecting from a rectangular column screwed to a square base and selectively patinated green.
• There are five overlapping squares which, like the base, each measure c.89mm (3 1/2 in.);
• the base is 23mm (7/8 in.) thick, the planes c.5mm (3/16 in.)
• The core of the cluster is held by a vertical rectangle (equivalent to a square and a half) held in the column in a mortise joint.
• Behind it, a small rectangle (half a square) lifts up a square (the third from the front);
• another square (the fourth), immediately behind, is let into a shallow joint cut away from the top back edge of the column.
• The other squares are stacked up and displaced upwards or to the side.
• They are simply riveted together face to face ... rivets are discernible in the overlap between the highest square and that below.
• Apart from the column, all the main surfaces show the results of diagonal saw cuts in from corners. This is also seen on the base.

No mention there of the rectangular column's measurements.

Here are some more snaps of the original, taken with my phone.