claude cormier: “pergola”.

21 05 2008

To celebrate the inaugural year of the Arts Le Havre Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Montréal-based landscape architect and urban designer Claude Cormier constructed a beautiful impressionist tribute to one of the world’s most famous painters - Le Havre’s own Claude Monet.

Meant to mirror the wisteria flowers that showed up in so many of Monet’s works, “Pergola” is made up of 90,000 plastic balls draped into the trees outside the Le Havre City Hall. I like the weird juxtaposition of the technicolour plastic balls against the organic green of the trees. I kind of want to yank them all down, create a ball pit, and throw some children in it… but this is good too.

Via Lost At E Minor


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4 responses to “claude cormier: “pergola”.”

22 05 2008
jbreech (04:26:08) :

Crunchberries!!!

22 05 2008
Fubiz (11:11:46) :

Funny installation at Le Havre!

24 05 2008
Cali’s Corner « The Intelligencer (15:30:03) :

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29 05 2008
Fashion Week Daily - Chic Report » A Very Shady Tribute (11:03:47) :

[...] it The Gates: Montreal. Urban designer Claude Cormier decorated this pergola with 90,000 plastic balls placed in the trees outside the Le Havre City Hall for the inaugural year of the Arts Le Havre [...]

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