{"url":"https://folksy.com/items/8515867-blitz-timber-4","title":"Blitz Timber 4","price":350.0,"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\nThis is a real statement piece for a larger hall or public space. The longest piece of timber I have been able to recover from the beach, the gnarled surface has been waxed and fitted with eight generously spaced oak pebbles of different shapes and sizes. The rack can be firmly secured to a wall by means of six carefully placed screw holes.\r\nL 1m84cm x W 130mm x D 45mm.","brand":"GreenTreenDesigns","product_id":8515867,"availability":"in stock","quantity":1,"product_expiration":"2026-04-16T14:47:39+00:00","images":["https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-209722462496220372191242301797982236198--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-1071802461146122168212224276811323620741234--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-13018336127101165142309224515613919013949199--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-12563321321517977116253141512511766233220--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-22422272314267243111788723364142115174113--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-188661692095661196171961731395611123116128--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-164215768424889175617810341491262539171--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-13318617921016113224813751952110321121263--greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-2843153568537107243221175174207123137227116-blitz-timber-coat-rack-greentreendesigns/public","https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-632434021824921811254766979592491708160-blitz-timber-coat-rack-greentreendesigns/public"]}