The title marks out the sculpture as the first station on the tour. The model for the bronze slippers were indeed the kind of felt slippers that are handed out at palace tours in order to protect the floors. Spoerri makes a reference to an artist whom he reveres and whose name is associated with felt: Joseph Beuys. However, he changes the positive characteristics of this material (soft, warm, inexpensive) into their opposite by having the slippers cast in bronze.