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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