Furniture from weapons is a project started after more than 30 years of civil war, ending in 1998, the Cambodian gouvernment destroyed 125,000 weapons across the country. In this time a small arms specialist with the European Union, and British artist Sasha Constable, saw an opportunity, and decided to create The Peace Art Project Cambodia (PAPC) in November 2003. The Peace Art Project Cambodia was a sculpture project turning weapons into art as expressions of peace. In Cambodia this is the most beautiful way to get rid of weapons – transform them in furniture. From these pictures this furniture doesn’t look to comfortable, but for a good cause they are excelent.
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Published by Michael March 21st, 2007 in Uncategorized
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March 31st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
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March 31st, 2007 at 8:16 pm
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April 2nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
[...] Cambodia, some weapons are being turned into furniture. I like this idea of repurposing old machines of death into useful things for everyday use. [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
[...] Imágenes: Muebles armados. [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
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April 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
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April 22nd, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Re: The myth of the Second Amendment…
Just to provoke some conversation:
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May 1st, 2007 at 11:39 am
[...] true. The rest weapons used in Cambodia Civil War are turned into furniture. What a briliant idea. From Freshome. Spread it: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new [...]
May 8th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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July 31st, 2007 at 4:57 am
[...] While we are on the topic of furniture I would like to share the work of Neil Wilford, a small arms specialist with the European Union, and British artist Sasha Constable through The Peace Art Project Cambodia (PAPC). They create functional furniture from destroyed weapons accumulated by the Cambodian Gov’t and 30 years of civil war. Additional pieces can be seen here. [...]
August 16th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Very nice ! Great article !
September 10th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
[...] Wie bequem es ist seinen Morgenkaffee auf Kalaschnikows sitzend einzunehmen, sei mal dahingestellt, aber Stoff für gediegenen Smalltalk in Wartesituationen liefern diese Möbel allemal. Mal ganz abgesehen vom karitativen Zweck natürlich. [via freshhome] [...]
September 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am
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September 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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September 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
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November 1st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
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November 3rd, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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December 9th, 2007 at 8:44 am
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May 12th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Sacrilege!!!
July 6th, 2008 at 5:53 am
The furniture look beautiful but still displaying a lot of horror.
Good work
July 7th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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September 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 am
Great, love it.
And the fact that it annoys you gun nut, freak-bags makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.
What the bet all you people who think this is the ‘greatest art crime ever committed’ are yanks? hmm?
These AKs were not much use when you ‘brave’ americans were dropping bombs on innocent Cambodians from 30000 feet, so I guess that blows your warped theories out of the air.
Good art encourages debate. Well done.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
[...] They can make furniture! Yep, it’s true. Check out the rocking chair! There’s a lot more at this post, furniture from weapons. [...]
December 1st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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December 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
[...] Posted by acilius under Art | Tags: sculpture | Thanks to haha.nu for posting about The Peace Art Project Cambodia, which turned decommissioned small arms into furniture and [...]
February 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am
[...] Cambodia in November 2003 to repurpose machine guns and heavy artillery into art and ultimately furniture. And while this furniture isn’t actually dangerous, those of you accustomed to coexisting [...]
April 4th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
[...] em arte como expressão de paz. Esculturas e diversos móveis foram criados. É verdade que pelas fotografias, os móveis não parecem muito confortáveis. Mas, por uma boa causa, eles são [...]