A Big Mosaic Chair for a Garden, Park or Field
My inspiration was a pile of bricks I saw while walking my dogs through a field. I was already into mosaics and collecting pieces of broken china, discontinued small tiles, pieces of glass, old jewelry, etc.
An awesome pile of bricks
I also came across an old broken chair frame - this is not the one, as mine was bigger. I wanted to build up the broken chair with bricks, and.....
An old broken chair...
a bag of cement from the hardware store......
a bag of cement
I gathered up the broken chair and the bricks and then built the bricks up around the chair and cemented them. I made the bricks wider than the chair so that it ended up as quite large. I used WHITE VERSABOND over the DRIED cement to stick all the tiles, pebbles, etc into the chair shape. As always, there was no real planning - it was just stick as you go.
Details of arm rest.
Chair from the side
The Big Chair
Nothing was coordinated. When you are using Versabond in the hot sun, you have to work fast before it dries - here are some details.
Artsiphartsi
The chair was named Artsiphartsi.
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Wow....that must have taken forever!!!!! Good job!!
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This has got to be the coolest, most creative, funkiest, off the wall and like comment above insane idea I have seen!! I love it!!
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@Sonja Pittman Sonja - I LOVE Hometalk readers!! You guys are so validative. I have many projects to post and usually only get a "Humph!!" from people. I guess I should have been hanging out with Hometalk people all along! You guys ar so encouraging.
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