Aquarium phone booth

Posted: December 10th, 2007 | 16 Comments »

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.

16 Comments on “Aquarium phone booth”

  1. 1 Convierte las viejas cabinas en peceras « No puedo creer que lo hayan inventado… said at 11:09 am on December 11th, 2007:

    [...] también Pecera jaula, Lleva de paseo a tus peces de colores, El aseo pecera Visto en Lift Think Tags: Más Inventos [...]

  2. 2 phone booths | varnelis.net said at 5:04 pm on December 11th, 2007:

    [...] anyway… Nicolas recently posted an entry on "Evasion Urbaine," roughly "Urban Escapism," a project by artists Benoit [...]

  3. 3 little buildings | varnelis.net said at 5:32 pm on December 11th, 2007:

    [...] anyway… Nicolas recently posted an entry on "Evasion Urbaine," roughly "Urban Escapism," a project by artists Benoit [...]

  4. 4 Cabina pescera « Jóc Luis :: Weblog said at 7:12 pm on December 11th, 2007:

    [...] en Europa, que ahora las estan convirtiendo en grandes pesceras callejeras. Pueden leer más aquí. Filed under: Curiosidad, Imagenes [...]

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

    i love it where can i get one

  6. 6 soheicube linkpost said at 9:09 am on December 13th, 2007:

    電話ボックスをプチ水族館に改造…

    Aquarium phone booth [via Neatorama]
    ……

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

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

  8. 8 Cabina telefónica como acuario « Un poco de mucho said at 9:07 pm on March 17th, 2008:

    [...] Más fotos | Urban Escapism | LiftLab [...]

  9. 9 Cabina telefónica como acuario | unpocodemucho.com said at 1:45 am on July 16th, 2008:

    [...] Más fotos | Urban Escapism | LiftLab [...]

  10. 10 anon said at 4:55 pm on September 10th, 2008:

    ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

  11. 11 Recyclage d’une cabine lyonnaise en aquarium » Plouceur said at 11:57 pm on December 27th, 2008:

    [...] anglophone un article qui parle de la fête des lumières de Lyon, si si!! Le blog s’appelle Pasta&Vinegar et il publie quelques photos de la cabine téléphonique qui a été transformée en aquarium lors [...]

  12. 12 Aquarium Phone Booth said at 3:53 am on January 3rd, 2009:

    [...] Via [...]

  13. 13 Aquarios Sensacionais | Curiosando said at 10:17 am on February 22nd, 2009:

    [...] Cabine Telefônica [...]

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

    Dope idea!

  15. 15 鱼缸电话亭 « 和谐空间-咖啡奇趣 said at 7:06 am on April 22nd, 2009:

    [...] 这是由艺术家Benoit Deseille和Benedetto Bufalino 在2007年为发过Lyon Light 节制作的艺术品。来源 [...]

  16. 16 Aquarium supplies said at 2:04 pm on April 2nd, 2010:

    We sell aquarium stuff wordwide, but this is the first telefone aquarium i ever saw. Great picture.

    Harald

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