Maybe you're doing the cure and have a big pile of unwanted stuff in your outbox, with no one who'd like to take it off your hands. If you'd rather not toss it, we're all about this chandelier/installation seen recently at the Woonbeurs, a lifestyle and interior design fair held in Amsterdam.
You could make your own using an old bicycle wheel (sans tire) and some type of fishing line or twine. And we could be wrong, but it looks like some of the bottles are wired similarly to these milk jug lamps we've seen before. We love the brightness of the colors as well as the use of old plastic bottles and other items that would probably have ended up in a dump somewhere otherwise. So, would you hang this in your home, or does it belong in the recycling bin?
See more examples of junk chandeliers here.
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Comments (15)
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/at-europe/junk-chandeliers-paris--066904
nothing like beating a dead horse.
thanks for pointing that out, gideon. i just added the link.
Heath Nash.
Why should I want this? It's hideous.
Just.
Say.
No.
Sometimes "Recycle" is better than "Reuse."
you know what this is?
...it's dale chihouli in plastics...
as an art installation, it's cute...for about a week, tops
smiley
dust dust cobweb dust dead bugs dust
it's missing a doll's head. Points for the tire, though.
(ugh)
I think it's interesting. I think if you stuck to a single kind of "junk". I think an entire piece of colorful drink glasses could look quite nice.
This is a jaded bunch...
No objection to junk art but I think the other ones were better.
But I take umbrage at the DIY hate. It doesn't *have* to be kids' stuff. Just because this is a poor example doesn't mean everything DIY will suck.
it is like your trash can threw up on the ceiling.
It looks like those plastic necklaces in grade school that had the plastic charms of ordinary things like irons, skateboards, baseball bats, all made of different colors of plastic like this and you were supposed to collect them all but even back in grade school, I was like, it's junk.
But still, I am oddly drawn to it. It'd be good for a warehouse or other industrial space as shown here.
They say when junk becomes art it's the first sign that civlization is in decline.
Just sayin'!
TOXIC CHEMICALS ARE RELEASED FROM PLASTICS-ESPECIALLY WHEN HEATED. Dioxene for example!!! There is a direct link between autoimmune diseases( ie:MS, Sjogrens, Lupus plus about a hundred others) and dioxene.
Try not to use plastics but if you must, recycle and get it out of your house. Think glass and reuse whenever possible rather thhnan buying the same think over and over-
plus it's ugly not good for you either-lol
KTG--didn't any of these people ever learn one of the definitions of "kitsch": hand spoiled? I totally agree.
Peahen--you are so right, but the taste level of the various city sites varies greatly. Do you read the LA one--it's pathetic, and the Austin entries are all junk.
I understand that AT wants to encourage personal creativity and not just shopping in the readership, but I'd rather see fewer posts of higher quality.
And why not some posts by the contest winners? Or Q & As with them--we can see they've got taste.