San Francisco officials’ efforts to dismantle the 710-ton tangle of concrete pipes known as the Vaillancourt Fountain hit a snag last week when its creator sent the city a cease-and-desist letter.
Armand Vaillancourt, the 96-year-old artist behind the brutalist fountain in Embarcadero Plaza, tapped a lawyer to write the letter, asking the city on August 29 to “immediately cease and desist from taking any steps whatsoever that may endanger or damage the Vaillancourt Fountain.”
The letter was first reported by the San Francisco Standard…