The ascending device of the water of James Dyson was the seizing image of the exposure of this year of flower of Chelsea. But how did make? It beats certainly your device of communal ground or water of garden. Inventor James Dyson, it of the vacuum cleaner bagless, stole the titles of the gardeners to the exposure of this year of flower of Chelsea with his “false garden”. A whole of four slopes of glass placed in a water of exposure of place clearly travelling to the top of each one of them before it pours in addition to top, to only start still at the bottom of the next slope. It is a sight which defies logic, and became probably the most memorable image of the exposure of this year. Mr. Dyson says that its inspiration was a diagram by the Dutch artist MC Escher (it of the Gothic palates where the soldiers walk eternally in top, and of the models where the birds transform themselves into fish). “One of the latter is an optical illusion which shows ascending and round water active and round the four sides of a place perpetually,” he says [see the bonds of Internet]. “I wanted to create a series of cascades which all are on the same level - an eternal water fall. ”

The small things, such as this fountain in Norcross de pie Merson of landscape gardener, Georgia, garden, can have the great impact. “I had the idea of a friend to me, Herman Weis,” connects pie. “It showed me an image of one in a German garden and said if I could find two grinding stones, it would build each one of us a fountain]” But initially, the pie had to locate the grinding stones--not exactly discount-to store the article. “I placed an advertisement in “the market report of consumers of the farmer and Georgia,” “of the pie recalls. Soon then, it obtained grinding stones to him--and Herman repaired on his part of the business. There is really nothing imagination about building it: You need a large swimming pool pataugeante out of plastic; a smaller plastic swimming pool; resistant, bucket of plastic of 5 gallons; and a small pump with circulation continues giant. For this fountain, the existing ground was dug outside to adapt to the large swimming pool pataugeante. The smaller swimming pool pataugeante was placed inside largest; The pie added the rich ground in space between them. The bucket rests in medium of the smaller swimming pool, which is used as water tank with the pump. The holes cut inside the bucket make it possible water to rise from the bucket in the swimming pool. The pump with continuous circulation was placed in the bucket; the grinding stone rests on the rim. Japanese iris, ferns, and other factories which like the moist and rich ground thrive in the external swimming pool.

AMSTERDAM. - Sculptures, ornaments, fountains, finials, vases, growers, ballot boxes, basins, sundials, keystone and garden seats, will be offered in Amsterdam de Sotheby on Wednesday May 30, 2007. It is the third time that Sotheby in Amsterdam devotes a sale about the sculpture in garden and of the architectural ornaments of the collection of Piet Jonker. 

 

 the sale offers to an abundance of various sculptures out of stone, bronze, wire and cast iron iron of the traditional young ladies, the gods, the goddesses and the putti, and a choice of the fountains, growers, ballot boxes, doors and finials.

 

the notable pieces include two series of the four seasons impressive representations, including a whole of four white marble figures (€40.000 - 60.000).

 

There are the cut out stone animals with lime, including a lion with wings (€5.000 - 7.000) and a boar (€6.000 - 8000). An attractive pair wide stone léviers with lime is €2.500 estimated - 3.500. Very attractive is a stone flower stand cut out with lime in the form of putti three gambadant supporting a not very deep basin (€15.000-20.000).

 

the fountains include such decorative articles like a stone figure cut out of fountain of a fish (€800 - 1.200), a figure of stone fountain of composition in the form of little boy carrying a swan (€1.000 - 1.500) and a sculpture out of Belgian bronze of a boy assembling a tortoise, by Eugene Caneel (1882 - 1966) dating from the circa 1910. is €8.000 estimated - 12.000

 

the article far from common and impressive in this sale statuary of garden to Amsterdam de Sotheby is a rare and impressive garden of pleasure of “” being composed of two galleries of twelve columns bungalow-glazes each one, of a pair of sphinx extended with the putti on their backs, of a sculpture of pan playing the groove, the wth a putto on his back asking us to be quiet, and of a sculpture of Come, embraced by a Amor young person, as well as a large stone to put except play and of the flowers stand. This monumental whole in the stone made up of the circa 1840 covers a space of the circa twenty by twenty meters and is €150.000-180.000 estimated. 

 

 the decorative sculpture and ornaments for the garden and the terrace are in the increasing request. The combination of nature and the synthetic worked objects has while astonishing and the enthralling landscape. In summer, surrounded by the flowering factories and the green thicket, the sculpture shows with its finer. But also in winter, when the skies are gray and the gardens are empty and discover, an elegant sculpture or a good ornament can make a world of the difference. 

 

 the collection of Piet Jonker - starting from the beautiful Lindenhoff field in Baambrugge close to Abcoude (the Netherlands), Piet Jonker carries out a famous international company which is specialized out of historical building materials such as stones of flag, floors out of wooden, chimneys and tiles of wall. In the visit of the Nineties. A. with Billingshurst de Sotheby, located in a house of country surrounded by beautiful gardens in Western Sussex (RU), opened its eyes with the beauty of the sculpture in garden regulated in the good environment. Piet Jonker increased its collection with the sculpture and the ornaments out of stone and showed the latter in a garden of the Rebirth particularly designed for this purpose.

 

Piet Jonker left by the challenge to compile a sale of the ornaments of garden every two years. The sales of this type were popular in England and in the southernmost European countries during much of years.

 

Piet Jonker indicates: “The garden forever be out of mode but today it is probably more popular than always front. Much enthusiasm is expressed for the ornament garden and decoration in the form of marble sculpture, of iron ballot box of cast iron or worked iron garden seat. For gardeners seeking something of lively, the sale offers the delicious articles such as a double fountain of the circa 1910, in the shape of a white marble, herme of Bacchus of spitting of water and a bronze little boy which opens while laughing the tap to pulverize water on the Bacchus old man. This patinated and Carrara marble fountain bronze on a square basis in a low basin is 160cm high could be obtained for €20.000 - 25.000. ”

 

Viewing on the place: 25 at May 28 at Piet Jonker, Rijksstraatweg 23, Baambrugge (close to Abcoude), daily of 10am with 5pm. Sale in Amsterdam de Sotheby: Wednesday May 30, 2007 with 2pm and 7pm.