How’s this for art in unexpected places? boom-art, the famed French limited-edition skateboard maker, has teamed up with UWL surfboard to create a series of (very) limited-edition surfboards. The surfboards are sold individually or as sets of 3, and there will only be 10 made of each design. Although they are functioning boards, at 5,600,00 € per set, it seems likely that they’re intended more for collectors than actual surfers. You’d need an awful lot of empty wall space to display them, though!
There are two designs based upon famous 15th Century works of art; One based upon the famous 15th-century Dutch tapestry The Lady and the Unicorn, and the other on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
The designs above are also available as skateboards, and I imagine they’d be a lot easier to hang on the wall than the surfboards. Be warned, though. Their other skateboard designs lean more toward soft-core porn than the designs above. Here are a couple of the tamer ones. To see their full line of skateboards, check them out at boom-art.com.
Today I am linking up with Essentially Jess for #IBOT
February 24, 2015 at 9:54 am
I love the colours in these. Quite an usual idea, but they are very beautiful.
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February 24, 2015 at 9:55 am
I agree, but I think they’d be a little impractical.
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February 24, 2015 at 10:00 am
Yes they would! They are more like pieces of art to be hung somewhere and admired though?
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February 24, 2015 at 10:34 am
I think so. Anyway, that’s what I’d do with them!
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February 24, 2015 at 10:50 am
These are awesome!
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February 24, 2015 at 3:36 pm
a bit out of budget.. but pretty
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February 24, 2015 at 4:36 pm
Yes on both counts!
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February 24, 2015 at 6:30 pm
I don’t surf or skate board but I’d love to have one they are so cool!.
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February 24, 2015 at 7:35 pm
Me, too. I want them on my walls!
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February 24, 2015 at 7:31 pm
They really are beautiful. I worry about how rough the lives of these objects usually are. Lol
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February 24, 2015 at 7:38 pm
That’s a good question. Unfortunately (fortunately?), they will never tell!
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February 25, 2015 at 5:56 am
Wow! Just wow! I am absolutely blown away. I never thought I would see medieval art on surfboards of all places!! It looks incredible. Thanks so much for linking with #TeamIBOT.
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February 25, 2015 at 9:38 am
It was my first IBOT linkup. Glad I did it right! (And thank you for being so nice!)
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February 26, 2015 at 4:42 am
These are beautiful and such a creative way of producing art a modern Icon.
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February 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm
I’m so glad you like them!
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