{"id":2815,"date":"2014-08-24T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2014-11-28T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:18:09","slug":"dale-chihuly-glass-at-denver-botanic-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"Dale Chihuly Glass at Denver Botanic Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

While\u00a0in the USA\u00a0in\u00a0last month,\u00a0we had a lovely visit to the Denver Botanic Gardens, where our daughter Anna works.\u00a0\u00a0 Until November 30th\u00a0there’s a fabulous\u00a0array of\u00a0Chihuly’s glass\u00a0pieces installed in amongst the garden plantings.\u00a0 The gardens were at their full height of summer colour, and most of the works were quite organic, and very in tune with the plants that surrounded them.\u00a0 To see some of the images, go here\u00a0 http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/o6pw4xf<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>They say that by the time it closes,\u00a0over 6 months it will have brought an extra 3 million visitors to DBG !\u00a0 On the strength of this we avoided the one weekend available and instead chose\u00a0 our last day, a monday, to visit – not realizing that\u00a0this was a free entry day!\u00a0 And, so there were crowds of people\u00a0moving around the gardens,\u00a0anyway!!!\u00a0 But, despite the large number of people, the crowd was nicely behaved and mostly\u00a0not\u00a0too pressing.<\/p>\n

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So many of the installations were set in some of the delightful water features in the gardens, and this one above with forms in different greens with white and silver highlights, was possibly my favourite. \u00a0Green has always been my favourite colour.<\/p>\n

Denver has a record of dramatic and fierce summer storms, and one year during the time we were living there our roof was pulverised by golfball-sized hail stones, so naturally I wondered out loud about insurance.\u00a0\u00a0 Each installation is\u00a0 a mass of organic shapes attached at one end to a central form.\u00a0 The glass is quite thick and strong, but if something does get broken, that module is just removed and replaced with another.\u00a0 I imagine there’s a storage area somewhere in the grounds with lots of bits of coloured glass shapes sitting around on shelves, waiting …<\/p>\n

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