“Freedrain. 24-carat gilded manhole cover”
“Antique Walnut Litter Bin”
“Chesterfield Park Bench. Parkbench transformed into Chesterfield using real leather, walnut, and traditional crafting techniques” Vgl. auch Bert Löschner: “Urban Upholstery”.
“Fountain. Rotterdammertje turned into a drinking fountain”
“Foolproof and Public Space” – eine Serie im öffentlichen Raum von Joost Goudriaan in Rotterdam: “The public space in Rotterdam is loaded with objects, functional yet often unnoticed. The city of Rotterdam, always seeming to be desperately seeking her new “heart”, supplies her many excavations with street furniture without thinking about the charisma of the street level. The sky seems to be the limit, and the eye level remains forgotten. For this project in public space I tried to explore possibilities for the ‘Lovable City”, master some crafts and remake foolproof street furniture, using the original industrial designs, to investigate wether the love I’ve put into these objects would come out, and even might originate love for them. So fuck foolproof, let’s see what will happen to these carefully crafted, vulnerable, upgraded and recreated, illegally placed objects…”
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