Cool, as long as I don't have to be the one to dust it.

i love this. i wonder how it could be incorporated into real life though.

so cool...I would love to try something similar on a HUGE wall that i have in my home

channeling the shop window version of artist Tara Donovan:http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f20/daniel_toh/Art/tara_donovan_2.jpg

Ditto on the dusting comment. It's a very fun installation, though.

creative for sure, and i agree with lisa about the dust factor, like if you did this in your own home, but besides that, this is a super waste of cups. clearly they aren't recycling those cups from somewhere, they went and purchased them. they'll be getting trashed afterward for sure.

i like the way they look like bubbles, or even barnacles. also reminds me of when i had an aquarium and one of the slugs layed a bubbly batch of eggs on the top lid. for something so manmade, like plastic, it's leading me to very ocean oriented ideas. i think it could also be interesting to texturize the edges. maybe strips like tentacles. or scalloped like flower petals. it reminds me of elementary school projects, but one of the cool ones.

They should have a little ball on the counter. When you buy something, you get to toss the ball at the cups, if it lands inside, you get 10% off.

when they take the display down in a month those cups are going to look great in the landfill, too... like, forever.

Knowing Anthropologie, they probably sell cheap plastic cups for $20 each so you can re-create the look in your own home!

how did they fasten them to the wall?
i imagine some kind of poster hanging sticky stuff?

YUCK~

I think it's creative, especially the use of the small filler cups.

I'm digging the use of milk crates in this pic. This could work in my kitchen as cheap shelf alternatives if they were painted and held pretty things.

They copied the amazingly talented artist Tara Donovan. Her work is sublime. Her styrofoam cup installations are incredible but it's the plastic straws that really blow my mind.

Enjoy!

http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8

a seattle artist recently tried to sue anthropologie for copying an installation EXACTLY in the store, unfortunately, because it was an installation and wasn't for sale, they had no recourse. i hate anthropologie's "amazingly talented" thieving visual merchandisers.

what will they do with the cups when they are done with them? just throw them out?

I imagine a can of pressurized air would do wonders on the dust issue.

It would be better if the cups we used or reusable. It's nice to use cheap materials and all, but there is still the issue of waste.

haha lightspeed..that would be great!..and..i hate them?? i really do..looks like plastic cups stuck on the wall..and i swear i do have vision..really!

threadbare--
that link is amazing!

I'm sure they will be recycling the cups, won't you barista??? Artists get their inspiration from one another--it's a compliment, not thievery! And store shoppers can use the displays for their own home ideas. Love the bubbles!

i think that its funny how some of you go on about what a waste it is for them to use plastic cups, but then also note that she's copying tara, who amazingly you DON'T think is also wasting... why allow one form of art but not another?

i also know that sometimes they speak with local businesses and employees and are donated old products for their displays. so don't just assume that they went and bought brand new stuff for them.

and furthermore, not every store does the same window displays. each store has their own art team who is given a direction of where to go but not a concrete plan. so just because you saw plastic cups on one store's wall, doesn't mean it's in 1000 others.

i think their displays are amazing. i would gladly see them reuse newspaper, cardboard boxes, water bottles and every other discarded item in their incredible displays to make art that i can enjoy rather than see it in the trash.