Bottle Top Bill
Saw this bit of pavement art that I’m calling pavazzle, in Herne Hill at the weekend.
It reminds me of something I wrote about years ago, which you could easily copy if you have 10,000 bottle tops and a lot of patience.
Art student Sebastian, from Stockholm, was only 22 when he made that splashback for his kitchen, using bottle tops from Red Stripe, Heineken, Pepsi and Water etc. He built the patterns on his table first, before sticking them with cement to the wall. Here’s a close up.
That was a pretty progressive Real Reveal photo choice for a magazine six years ago. I think I can see food on the kitchen cloth.
Sebastian described his mosaics as ‘looking like African arts and crafts,’ and said he was inspired by artist Cilla Ramnek’s mosaic work, which looks like this.
It took Sebastian four months to create his version, incidentally. I wasn’t joking about having patience.
It’s all a bit ‘gathering all the bottles of plonk you drank on holiday and displaying them on your balcony as a badge of honour’ for me. Sorry Sebastian, all the grout cleaner in the world doesn’t make it a ‘must copy’ item for this commenter.
Maybe it’s an age-appropriate look? Also, if I was to start decorating with drink tops it would be corks and screw tops from wine. er yeh…
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/23574/30000-bottle-caps-decorate-russian-pensioners-home.html
WOW. That must have taken more than four months.
I really like the Herne Hill pavazzle!
Me too. Pavazzle = Trend.
Impressive splashback. Very un-Swedish! (that’s a compliment by the way, if you’re Swedish)