The Flying Grass Carpet is a collaboration project between: -HUNK-design (Bart Cardinaal & Nadine Roos) -Studio ID Eddy (Eddy Kaijser) info@flyinggrasscarpet.org
Schommelstraat 87, 3035 CG Rotterdam, the Netherlands
>> The Flying Grass Carpet consists of approximately 85.000.000 grass halms.
>> The total Carpet weighs 6375 kilos (1,5 kilo/m2).
>> There are about 100 different types of artificial grass.
>> The first artificial grass dates back to the late fifties.
>> In 2004 130.000km2 of land in America consisted of grass lawns and the Americans spend 30 billion dollars on the green halms.
>> According to Wikipedia half of the surface of the Netherlands consists of grass.
>> Indirectly we are for 95% depending on grass for our food.