{"url":"https://folksy.pro/items/8515896-blitz-timber-6","title":"Blitz Timber 6","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","provider_name":"Folksy","description":"Just to the north of Anthony Gormley's sculptures on Crosby beach is the Brick Beach. Here, the rubble of the Blitz on Liverpool was deposited to act as a defence against coastal erosion. For many years I have walked that beach, picking up curiously gnarled pieces of timber. At first I thought they were driftwood, etched into sculptural shapes by the sea, but I came to realise that they were being revealed by the wind and sea from the war rubble I was walking on. It dawned on me that these weren't just bits of wood, these wormeaten pieces of door frame and floorboard, some showing the marks of fire, were part of the history of my home town. I decided to give these beautiful historical remnants of the bombed homes of past Liverpudlians a new lease of life as coat racks. Each has been dried, cleaned up (but not too much), planed flat at the back, treated with preservative, and fitted with hardwood hooks.\r\n\r\nTo me, this is the ugliest but most characterful of my coat racks. I decided to embed five simple oak claws so as not to detract from the story the timber has to tell. The backboard, still retaining some of its white paint, was clearly a very elaborate piece of decorative frieze, possibly from a public building or pub, with some kind of zigzag pattern cut into it. The shelf also retains paint in a groove cut into it. For me it's the piece most evocative of the buildings lost in the war.\r\nL 790mm x W 230mm x D 100mm.","brand":"GreenTreenDesigns","product_id":8515896,"availability":"in stock","quantity":1,"product_expiration":"2026-04-16T14:47:39+00:00","images":["https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-101554228351859964025122415718275174193--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-11816621056671782041891171761022253619098--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-194411886920311664233183184154951836179135--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-20758218841531834512812460491541807824586--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-20320571811717922660207952215812823117211--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-2379722719121820212762071058822112715535133--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-172113206255156216706523319110078146163235206--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-50651194052122155781892071601195417716664--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-588221111322862391461541461363910224258107--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-6442001236717018725522316610822796721912--greentreendesigns/public"]}