1. Umbrella house in Houston
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Image: photine
The "Parasol Project" by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is a spectacular installation with a
deeper meaning:
the artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times
versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic
floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images
(MRIs) - contemporary emotional representations - while the parasols
themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used
parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.
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Image: cybertoad
2. Red umbrella ball in Shanghai
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Image: CuriousGeoff
This bold ball of red umbrellas is nice to look at amidst a backdrop of construction.
3. Multi-coloured umbrella light ball in Korea
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Image: Nagyman
This umbrella ball is reminiscent of a huge beach ball.
4. Umbrella installation in Melbourne mall
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Image: jikon
Colourful umbrellas make us smile, but these black umbrellas sure do
pack a punch, especially when they're contrasted with the whiteness of
the surrounding space; viewed from below, it's almost like a huge flock
of black umbrella-shaped birds is flying overhead. A bit creepy.
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Image: jikon
5. Milan Design Week 2007
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Image: marta.b
Umbrellas can act as pretty cool lamp shades in this outdoor installation.
6. Floating umbrellas in a Japanese mall
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Image: modus
7. Umbrella installation in Greece
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Image: Ava Babili
This outdoor installation of translucent umbrella "trees" is simply beautiful.
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Image: Ava Babili
8. Beach umbrellas in Gorman, California
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Image: KeithJ
This umbrella installation by Christo and Jean-Claude, which finally
came to fruition in 1991, was an international affair, with 1,760 yellow
umbrellas set up in Gorman, California and 1,340 blue umbrellas erected
in Ibaraki, Japan. The total project cost was $26 million, and it
attracted 3 million people from around the world.
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Image: Dddeco
9. Channel 4 building on Horseferry Road, London
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Image: surprise truck
Certainly not as ambitious as the Christo project, Channel 4 in
London still managed to turn a few heads with their "raining umbrellas"
and their number 4 umbrella.
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Image: surprise truck
10. Peter Holden's syncopated umbrellas
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Image: rainasun
Artist Peter Holden animated his black umbrellas, setting them to open and close to
Singin' in the Rain.
11. Paper parasols at the Bellagio
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Image: cdbeowulf
Vegas is known for going big or going home, and this exhibit at the
Bellagio is no different. Pretty paper parasols dangle from the sky in
the ever-changing gardens at this landmark hotel.
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Image: cdbeowulf
12. Casa Bruno Quadros in Barcelona
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Image: Vagamundos
The Casa Bruno Quadros is adorned with umbrellas because it was built in the 1890s to house an umbrella shop.
13. Hanging umbrellas in Insadong, Seoul, Korea
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Image: xoxoryan
Passersby posing for photos under the blue-sky umbrellas in Korea.
14. Umbrella tree in Seoul, Korea
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Image: silveroses69
15. Rainbow coloured umbrella installation in the A.L.I.C.E. Museum Exhibition at Seoul Arts Center
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Image: brandon
17. Umbrellas in Battery Park, New York
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Image: liquidx
Artist Victor Matthews painted a butterfly on 3,000 open umbrellas
and set them up in Battery Park for his “Beyond Metamorphosis” work.
That's a lot of work!
18. Umbrella light canopy
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Image via Inhabitat
"Cumulus Light Canopy" by Steven Haulenbeek uses white photographers’
translucent “shoot-through” umbrellas to create variously sized
configurations of umbrella lighting. They look just like the beautiful,
fluffy clouds they're named after.
