Chandelier artists: Stuart Haygarth

Artist Stuart Haygarth created a chandelier called Drop in Miami in 2007 consisting of the bases of plastic water bottles.
Stuart Haygarth said one of the repercussions of this healthy drinking culture is the fact that the empty plastic water bottles are littering our landscapes and filling up our landfill sites at an incredible rate.
Currently at airports we are not allowed to take water bottles through security check points, and thousands of empty or half-full bottles are collected.
From scaled drawings I put together a water drop shaped chandelier over 3 days. The audience was also encouraged to donate their empty water bottles just in
For Design Miami 07 I created a new piece of work for the first time, which focused on the overlooked sculptural beauty of these plastic water containers.
I cut a small detail section (the base) from approximately 1800 bottles (collected from Stansted airport, London) and placed them in a cement mixer containing sand and water. This slightly modified the visual appearance of the plastic by creating a sandblasted quality which made the plastic appear like frosted glass.
Stuart also designs chandeliers out of other materials that you can see on his website.