Some great shots of the The Other Flower Show at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2004 have been added to their Flickr Stream.

The Other Flower Show at the V&A in 2004 brought together a group of contemporary artists and designers who were invited to transform a garden shed into a creative and conceptual alternative to the traditional flower show.

There is something quintessentially English about a garden shed. It implies far more than simple garden storage: shelter at a rainy garden party, an enthusiast’s workshop, a place for retreat, or perhaps for something more untoward… Here in the V&A garden, the shed functioned as a blank canvas for the individual artist to decide how to respond to the structure and its inherent implications.

Tracy Emin created an environment constructed from personal possessions that she either made or constructed: drawings, pieces of furniture, patchwork curtains, a lamp, cat pictures, figurines, an appliqué Ouija board. The objects were fresh from the stage of a theatre production of Jean Cocteau’s ‘Les Parents Terribles’, for which Emin designed the set. Re-assembled, in her shed, they were carefully choreographed to symbolise desire, love, jealousy and hate, which have become trademark characteristics of Emin’s work.

I wonder if any museums will be doing stuff from Shed Week 2010 as you know sheds are the cornerstone of this great country and not just for artsake.

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This from the BBC A History of the world by Hazel Jones

This curious object was made by the artist Hazel Jones whilst she was in her final year at the Silversmithing and Jewellry Department of the Royal Collage of Art in London in the late 80’s. At that time she was “inventing” gadgets and implements for doing jobs that didn’t need doing. Working with ephemeral objects like tea leaves, fluff and dust. She turned her attention to currant buns in her final year and for her final year show at the RCA she developed some gadgets for stretching, steaming and drying currants that had been skillfully plucked from the surface of many a bun. A hinged wall with seven spikes folds down and the moist currants are attached and the wall closed and fastened by means of a small clip at the top. A small cake candle in the base is lit via a hinged hatch at the side. The heat of the candle is said to dry out the currants in a matter of hours. The elongated shape of the sheds was greatly influenced by the net drying sheds at Hastings used by local fisherfolk. After the currants are dried they can be steamed in the Currant Steamer- another device invented by Hazel Jones – to return them to their plump and moist state and so on, ad infinitum.

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WE have all sorts of Garden offices at readersheds, from 20k eco sheds to converted summerhouses, allotment sheds or just off the shelf.

Here are a example of some great ones for you to get inspired to set up your own business at the end of the garden, as Alex shed judge and lord of shedworking says, the commute is enjoyable.

The Ruminator

JON WICKHAM
FAREHAM, HAMPSHIRE

Judith’s Garden Office

Judith Morgan
my garden in Streatham Hill

The Potter’s Shed

Stacey
Colorado

One Grand Designs Shed

Dominic Jones
Liverpool, UK

multi purpose hide out

David G Connor
side of river gorge

Lynne’s Lodge

Lynne Machin
Bottom of the garden

the world famous moonroom

Paul Barton
Nottingham UK

If you have a great Garden office why not Share it with us sheddies here, It could win the Garden Office category for 2010 and you never know make it as Shed of the Year 2010 in July.

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The wonderful instructables has this great make

Come and see this bridge in Petersburg, Alaska!

I acquired a grant to put in a bridge over a stream that was between a park and a mile long trail. The plan had been to install a glue-lam or log bridge across a 50 foot wide part of the stream. Building a log bridge is actually pretty easy if you have big timber to work with. But a citizen approached me and asked if he could design and guide the construction of a cantilever bridge with a small hut on it.

This design incorporates a “sod” roof of locally harvested mosses as well as integrated benches. The entire structure except the plywood on the roof is constructed of red cedar. Most of the pieces were fabricated in a wood shop and then carried out and installed.

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A great log cabin design by designed by Piet Hein Eek but its does look odd as the wood has been cut the other way!.

More pictures at Thomas Meyer Archive
– Via Treehugger and Shed of the year judge Lloyd Alter.

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