Aquarium phone booth

Street encounter in Lyon: a phone booth turned into an aquarium (by Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino), as part of the Lyon Light Festival:

phone booth aquarium

As the designers express it:

“With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium, full of exotically coloured fish; an invitation to escape and travel.“

phone booth aquarium

Why do I blog this? an interesting way to explore how artifacts from the 20th century can be turned into other sorts of objects in the city of the near future.

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15 Responses to “Aquarium phone booth”

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  5. jason Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 8:15 am

    i love it where can i get one

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    December 13th, 2007 at 9:09 am

    電話ボックスをプチ水族館に改造…

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  7. matt Says:
    December 24th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    I love the use of the word “artifacts” to describe things from the 1900s.

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    September 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

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  14. Jazzy Says:
    February 27th, 2009 at 6:53 am

    Dope idea!

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