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Copper bowl bird bath « Clivey#39;s Blog

I had the good fortune to be at The Grove Hotel recently for a friend’s birthday celebrations. Anyone knowing this swanky modern hotel will know that it’s been designed with a large selection of modern art and sculpture as part of its decor – I’ve put a few shots of interesting pieces up on my Flikr site here >>).

In the garden of the hotel was something that particularly caught my eye – this fantastic copper bowl which sits at the head of a water run:

Something about this piece really reminded me (although it’s much grander in scale of course!) of a copper bird bath that I created for my garden some time ago. Made from the inverted top of an old copper water cylinder, I plugged several holes that existed in the top (for the valve, the inlet pipes etc), filled the bottom couple of inches of the bowl with concrete, and added a vertical piece of 22mm copper pipe topped off with the bent figure made from the heating elements. I then added a layer of pea shingle to cover the concrete, and a few sea shells etc for interest.

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