What do you get when you take a product of our fear of terrorism, cut a bit off and tumble it around in a cement mixer with some sand, and then add some creative magic? Stuart Haygarth tried it and ended up with a striking chandelier. He collected 1800 confiscated plastic water bottles from Stansted Airport, and transformed them into a drop shaped chandelier which he exhibited at Design Miami 2007.
[via: dezeen]
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wonderful
Someone must have been very thirsty before they thought of that idea… look at how many different brands of water there are!
This is a very creative response to paranoia. Too bad more people don’t have this kind of imagination.
ooohhh Preeetttyyy I lreally love this
Oh Yea I want one
omg this is so kewl.
At last, someone taking positive steps to make something useful out of junk. A beautiful lightshade has got to beat bent plastic bottles scattered along the roadside.
yep…that’s pretty stupid. thanks for the laugh!
Oh wow, that is amaaaaazing. So beautiful.
I could almost make one out of all the plastic bottles I find in my teenager’s room. Now where could I borrow a concrete mixer? Hmmmmmm.
lame art
Must be a bitch to clean .
I WISH I had the time to do something like that. Creative and smart; I like the recycling idea. That all seemed like such a waste.
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WOAH
This is hardly the first idea of it’s kind. People have been reusing junk to make art since at least the Pop Art movement began. You don’t need a cement mixer either, anything that will move the sand and bottles around in a constant motion will give the bottles that frosted look.
That’s a very cool way to recycle, and plastic water bottles are one of the biggest culprits nowadays. People drink the bottled water to improve their health… without realizing that they are destroying their environment.
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