Register | Login


As a child, you may remember collecting flowers and sticking them between two pages of a thick book. A few days later they would be fragile and paper-thin, but would last an eternity. Israeli designer Ron Arad takes the same concept of “pressed flowers” and applies them to cars - Fiat 500s, to be precise.

Ron Arad took six real Fiat 500s and flattened them into 12 cm thick sheets of metal in an industrial press at a shipyard in Groningen, the Netherlands. According to Arad, he is not destroying the cars, but “immortalising them”. The pressed cars are in display at his new exhibition titled "Pressed Flowers," at the Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv, Israel.

pressed-flowers-ron-arad-8

Read more »
© Amusing Planet, 2013.


Trona Pinnacles
Trona Pinnacles
Try Galileo’s Gravity Experiments From The Leaning Tower of Gingin
Try Galileo’s Gravity Experiments From The Leaning Tower of Gingin
Tsar Tank
Tsar Tank
Tura Coo The Cow That Led A Town To Riots
Tura Coo The Cow That Led A Town To Riots
Turlough Irelands Disappearing Lakes
Turlough Irelands Disappearing Lakes
Turning Night Into Day Nuclear Explosions in Space
Turning Night Into Day Nuclear Explosions in Space
Turnspit Dogs
Turnspit Dogs
Twin-Heart Fish Trap in Penghu
Twin-Heart Fish Trap in Penghu