Design Miami 07: Stuart Haygarth created a chandelier called Drop during Design Miami last week, consisting of the bases of plastic water bottles.
The project was one of several design performances at the fair. The photos here show different stages of the performance. Update: see our movie of the performance, including an interview with Haygarth.
More Dezeen stories about Stuart Haygarth:
New work by Stuart Haygarth
Spectacle Chandelier
Stuart Haygarth at ToolsGalerie
Gift Light
Optical Chandelier
Tail Light at Gallery Libby Sellers
Haygarth has sent us the following text:
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DROP CHANDELIER – Design Miami 2007– Stuart Haygarth
Drinking mineral water has become such an integral part of contemporary culture. There are many brands available and which brand you drink has become a lifestyle statement.
One of the repercussions of this healthy drinking culture is the fact that the empty plastic water bottles are littering our landscapes and filling up our landfill sites at an incredible rate.
Currently at airports we are not allowed to take water bottles through security check points, and thousands of empty or half-full bottles are collected.
For Design Miami 07 I created a new piece of work for the first time, which focused on the overlooked sculptural beauty of these plastic water containers.
I cut a small detail section (the base) from approximately 1800 bottles (collected from Stansted airport, London) and placed them in a cement mixer containing sand and water. This slightly modified the visual appearance of the plastic by creating a sandblasted quality which made the plastic appear like frosted glass.
From scaled drawings I put together a water drop shaped chandelier over 3 days. The audience was also encouraged to donate their empty water bottles just in case we ran short during the production.
Posted by Rupinder Bhogal
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
Yeah! cutting plastic bottles! and build a lamp out of it! Yeah! I nerver seen this before………………………………..
December 12th, 2007 at 7:39 pmHmm, I don’t drink bottled water, so i don’t know, but are most plastic bottles blue on the bottom like that? or did he do that himself.
Also, unless he finds something to do with the other 75% of the bottle, it seems like a pure design exercise (beautiful albeit) as opposed to a reuse. There’s not a whole lot of use for a bottle with no bottom, so chances are it will end up in the dump anyway.
It looks incredible from afar. i wonder what the effect would be when you see it from up close, if it takes on a more plastick-y feel as opposed to the glass look it has in these photos. Anyone see this in person?
December 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pmIt seems like it would have been easy to section the bottles in the horizontal direction to create rings which could act with within this structure or could be a completely different chandelier.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:25 amHis work is cool but it seems very narrow and formulaic. From the millenium chandelier 3 or 4 years ago to this wheres the creativity
December 13th, 2007 at 10:20 amLike a dorm-room attempt to make some thing ‘artsy’ with your new roomate..
gesus.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:20 pmall the people in this comment section are idiots.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:08 amHmm, I’m afraid archerdanielsmisland is the only one in here I can agree with. So does this mean “design” people really DO act like you see in the movies? This is horrible…
March 29th, 2008 at 6:55 am