BOSTON — Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo — the ultimate piece of American suburban ...
American lawns are dying. This decline has nothing to do with widespread drought, greenhouse gasses, pollution, or our penchant for chemical fertilizers and weed killers. Lawns are simply falling out ...
An art installation of nearly 1,000 fake flamingos designed to highlight plastic in the oceans has caused confusion - as they are made from plastic. The piece 'Ramandu’s Table' by Bruce Munro is said ...
(THE CONVERSATION) In 1957, a 21-year-old art school graduate named Don Featherstone created his second major design for the Massachusetts-based lawn and garden decoration manufacturer Union Products: ...
The flamingos appeared seemingly out of nowhere. They were taped to office cubicles, nestled in potted plants, and resting on conference room tables. When the palm-sized plastic birds showed up last ...
While the pink plastic flamingo lawn ornaments were invented in Massachusetts, seeing an actual live flamingo out in the wild is basically unheard of here. But that’s exactly what happened along Cape ...
BOSTON (AP) – The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died. Donald Featherstone was 79. Featherstone’s wife, Nancy, told The Associated Press on ...
An art installation of nearly 1,000 fake flamingos designed to highlight plastic in the oceans has caused confusion - as they are made from plastic. The piece 'Ramandu’s Table' by Bruce Munro is said ...
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