Cut'n Break

The glass-master at "Espace-Verre" sold us some leftover glass pieces. The range of colour and size was quite limiting...at the end this turned out to be an interesting challenge. But most importantly he also gave some helpful tips.
It's the first time I heard about Silicone being used to do stained glas artwork.

We were all skeptical in the beginning. But it worked! All four "windows" survived the summer ... and so did the tourists that passed underneath it!

The Center-Piece

The original idea for the center-piece was to use the bottoms of wine bottles in between the bamboos (sketch). There were only 10 days left to finish this Installation and the budget was getting dry.

How is it possible to drill holes through thick glass? Will it be save (Wind!)? Will it look nice at the end?
We did tests cutting bottles... it looked too rough and the edges were razor-sharp.

So we decided to get stained - glass from a Glass-Studio "Espace-Verre" in Montreal.
Click here if you want to see some glas blowers in action. It's worth a visit!

Arecas Arrived

The Two Techniques

1. To cover the larger metal structures with Bamboo-Panels the "Knotting Technique" was used. A little fruit-basket Florian saw at a friends place was the inspiration for this technique.


2. Later Boris introduced the "Bending Technique"for the smaller structures.
The horizontal Bamboo's and the top of the metal frame gave enough resistance to keep the vertical Bamboos in place without the use of knots.