Pat Bowlen, Chairman of Bowlen Holdings Inc., decided, in 1982, to integrate in the new skyscraper he was building in San Diego a work of art that would symbolise it and become at the same a “characteristic” landmark of the city. Pat Bowlen spoke about the project to his closer collaborator, Dudi Berretti, who had been working for Bowlen Holdings Inc. even when it was managed by Pat’s father. Dudi Berretti has been living and working in the US for over thirty years, but is a Florentine by birth and by adoption, as he studied in the city. A short time later, Dudi came to Florence and contacted the “Artistic Foundry Ferdinando Marinelli”, where he was welcomed very happily. He visited the foundry, that he had already heard about in the US, appreciated the premium quality of its work and met the sculptor Sergio Benvenuti. The idea was born: a fountain with two figures on the front, a man and a woman, virtually resting on the element that gives life to them. That is the surface of the water of a fountain, the “Two ocean fountain”. It still is today an important landmark of the town. The typical sculptural style of Sergio Benvenuti (that draws inspiration from the Renaissance classicism of the city, Florence, where he studied, despite the modern hyper-realism and “post-modern” sensitivity) was immediately admired by the inhabitants of San Diego who regard the “two Ocean fountain” as one of their most admired monuments, to the point that it is often shown in post cards.