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Chop, La maison "couleurs des temps"/The house "colors of the season"
this picture by Decoh, licensed under Creative CommonsWhen in the late nineties of the former century I began searching the internet for information about art environments in France, I soon came along...
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A new book about Spanish art environments
Jo Farb Hernández' new book about art environments in Spain is ready ! It will be available for the public in december 2013.Published by Raw Vision, Singular Spaces. From the Eccentric to the...
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Marie-José and Jean-Marie Moren, Paradis de statuettes/Paradise of statuettes
picture via streetviewOne of the houses in a small social housing project south of Boulogne in France, dating from the sixties of the former century, has an exterior that has been abundantly decorated,...
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Biagio Lapolla, Il giardino di spaventapasseri/The garden of scarecrows
pictures are screenshots from the 2012 video (see documentation)Biagio Lapolla (b. 1934) probably by tradition had one or two scarecrows in the kitchen garden of his property in the Italian community...
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Joan Sala, Casa del escultor/House of the sculptor
Sala's house, seen from the streetpicture courtesy of MeiX, PanoramioOn the corner of two streets in the small community of Sant Joan les Fonts (Girona area of Catalonia, Spain), a house distinguishes...
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André Debru, Les débris de Debru/The debris of Debru
view from the road via streetviewHis father, grandfather and great-grandfather were blacksmiths, but -as his father had said- this profession at present era would offer him no perspective. So André...
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First lustrum of this blog
courtesy of Marcello 13 (Flickr)Today, november 11th 2013, is the date of the first lustrum of this blog. In november 2012 I presented some statistics about the blog's first four years, so in line with...
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Angelo Cerpelloni, La casa delle conchiglie/Shell decorated house
all pictures courtesy of Igor Novelliabove the house in 2007One would think that shell decorated houses and creative constructs are mainly located in coastal areas and in general this is also the case...
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René and Huguette Pellé, Jardin decoré/Decorated garden
pictures (around 2011) courtesy of Marion HannaIn the small community of Lézardrieux, on the north coast of Brittany, France, mr and mrs Pellé almost twenty year ago began decorating the garden around...
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Vincenzo Lucchesi, Eremo/Hermitage
pictures from the article by Francesco Ranucci(see documentation)This post is about an art environment in Italy, created between 1930 and 1940.It looks as if the internet just has one primary source...
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Chris Goedhart, Italiaanse droomtuin/Italian dream garden
Aedifiare vitam est.....constructing that's life... this describes rather well the typical state of mind of all these non-profesional builders who -as so many creators presented in this blog- devote a...
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Pierre Martelanche, Le Petit Musée/The Small Museum
the museumpictures are screenprints from the video referred to in the documentationForgotten in the nineteen twenties, the work of a french selftaught sculptor after ninety years has been...
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New weblog by Jean-Louis Bigou
Authored by Jean-Louis Bigou, in november 2013 a new weblog has been published, entitled De l'art improbable aux jardins insolites dans l'Aude et les environs. Portraits de personnes qui interviennent...
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George E. Howard, Inscriptions on stone tablets in his shell garden
all pictures courtesy of Ann DaveyThirteen years ago, in february 2001, George E. Howard's Shell Garden in Southbourne, UK, a site beloved by locals and holidaymakers, was suddenly destroyed.Howard...
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Fellicu Fadda, Sculpture garden
pictures courtesy of Antonella Fadda from the website ghilarzaedintorniabove picture is a still from her videoGhilarza is a community of almost 5000 inhabitants, located on the Italian isle of...
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Florent Hamel, aka Spiktri, Le jardin de Spiktri/Spiktri's garden
all pictures courtesy of Jean-Louis BigouIn the community of Montséret near Narbonne in southern France, an ensemble of sculptures is under construction*, which although there are links to outsider...
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Alphonse Gurlhie, Jardin aux sculptures/Sculpture garden
pictures from the Beaume-Drobie webssiteIn the commmunity of Chandolas (Ardeche area in France), a permanent open air exhibition of scultptures, located where the D 208 departmental road almost meets...
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Alberto Manotti, Re del Po/King of the river Po
From the Alps to the Adriatic Sea over a length of more than six hundred kilometers, the River Po crosses northern Italy. Mostly calm, the wide river can sometimes rise to great heights, which in the...
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Caroline Dahyot, Villa Verveine
the cliffs at Ault(licensed under Wikimedia Commons)Ault is a small community of some 4000 inhabitants in Picardy, in France, located on a cliff facing the Channel. In this area, dominated by the Somme...
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Kazimieras Peciukevicius, Auberge aux bois sculptés/The inn with sculpted wood
sculpture of Saint Jacques, installed in 2011pictures courtesy of Dominique ClementFrom old a halt on the way of Saint Jacques to Santiago de Compostella, Joncels is a medieval village of some 250...
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