She arrived in America with $50 and a manuscript in her head. The Soviet Union had shown her what happens when the individual is swallowed by the collective. Ayn Rand did not ask permission. Not from editors, not from critics, not from a culture that spent decades trying to dismiss her. She built her philosophy out of a single conviction: that the individual human mind is the source of all achievement, and that anything which destroys it destroys civilisation. Her books have sold over 30 million copies. They still sell.

She wrote about industrialists, architects, engineers. People who created things that lasted. She defined integrity as the ability to stand by an idea. That it presupposes the ability to think. That to build something real, something permanent, was itself a moral act.

To honour her life and her work, Gondor Industries is making a limited edition of five sculptures. Sculptures that symbolise integrity.

"Do you know what you're actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one style, like a work of art."

The bust stands on a pedestal of her books, carved from a single block of stone. Figure and foundation inseparable, just as her life and work were inseparable. One idea, carried all the way through.