Designer Thomas Bernstrand has created an artificial beach in Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of metal beach chairs and umbrellas.
The sculpture is designed to remind people of their summer holidays during the dark Swedish winters.
Here’s some more information from Bernstrand:
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Stranden (the beach) is a new permanent outdoor seating group placed next to “Skatteskrapan” on the south island in the center of Stockholm. The sculpture measures 140 square meters with seats for 50 people. The park opened in May 2008.
All furniture and umbrellas are made in solid metal so the park can be open and used all year around. A huge lamp will light up the park at night and during the dark winter Stranden will remind the deep frozen Swedes of summer, holiday and lazy days at the beach.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
looks like a nice comfy park, but I’m not sure it constitutes a “sculpture.”
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
what shit is this ?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I feel like if I were to see that during the winter, it would just make me more depressed..
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
ha!
“I’m not sure it constitutes a “sculpture” ” eh?
magnificent.
uh-uh baby this is a real SCULPTY
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 am
¿¿¿¿ ????
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 am
When I saw this, I thanked God here in Mexico we’ve got Acapulco!
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 am
Perhaps this ‘installation’ should be presented and photographed during winter, to emphasis the idea behind this art. It’s a nice idea but to open the park in May seems to deflate the artist’s original intention.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:24 am
i like this.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
this is the lamest post that Dezeen has EVER made. What BS!
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
Ah. Reminds me of hazy sunny childhood days, making our lazy way to the beach with buckets and spades and a picnic and a Huge Lamp of course, we never forgot that.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 am
wo da fak
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
metal beach chairs in summer time!!!!!!… someone is going to burn his ass
June 4th, 2008 at 9:56 am
So “Paris plage*” is a sculpture/Art installation too ?
* A temporary beach set up on the Seine every summer with sand, deck chairs, Parasols etc…
June 5th, 2008 at 2:13 am
hey i leave my balcony chairs out all year. i’m an artist! yay, i didn’t realise! i live in stockholm and i promise you that this is not something most stockholmers would consider art. art direction, maybe. but art? it’s a bunch of chairs and umbrellas, used as chairs and umbrellas! also, who dreams of a bunch of beach chairs packed like sardines? i would love a scuplture that brought a summer breeze in the winter or some warmth or even green grass. cause it sure gets cold here (and dark). but metal chairs (cold in the winter, hot in the summer)? why?
June 19th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I see (discounting opinion) something that has no real message, is not unique, would not require applied effort and is only slightly out of the ordinary. Nevertheless I do really like this, many plain areas would benefit from a cheap, easy distraction such as this. (reading over my comment, I realise it seems sarcastic – it isn’t intended to be)
June 24th, 2008 at 4:14 am
assholes you can only talk