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Patrick Dougherty’s Mind-Blowing Nest Houses Made of Living Trees

Posted By Yuka Yoneda On February 8, 2011 @ 5:47 pm In Architecture,Botanical,Treehouses | 1 Comment

 
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No, this isn't the work of some gigantic bird. The living art [6] you see before you was actually done by man - more specifically, artist and branchbender extraordinaire Patrick Dougherty [7]. Crafting human-sized nest houses [8] made by actually weaving growing trees into the shapes of houses [9], cocoons, pagodas, huts, giant water pitchers and even people, Dougherty has traveled the world with his truly extraordinary sculptures. Click through our photo gallery for images of some of his coolest work.
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Mr. Dougherty [7], who is now in his 60s, has a portfolio of over 200 amazing pieces from houses that look like a grove of trees to large pavilions that seem to have been built by a beaver. We call it art, but he calls it “stickwork.” That’s also what he named his book of thirty-eight of his most eye-catching these works which was published last year. Check it out here. [7]

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Photographer: Duncan Price
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Photographer: John Lawrence
Photograph: Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Photographer: Greg Sailor.
Photographer: Nell Campbell
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Photographer: David Lewis
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[7] Patrick Dougherty: http://www.stickwork.net/

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