As a young boy, I remember visiting a restaurant that had it’s furniture hanging from the ceiling. I remembered that place for weeks, as I just couldn’t understand how they got all the stuff to stay up there. Oh, to be a kid again…full of wonder and naivety. Although I’m now wiser to the trickery of man, I have tried to retain a bit of that wonder as I’ve aged, and today I hope you’ll follow me down the rabbit hole to explore something from my past.
Instead of a dining room in a restaurant, the upside down house is the ultimate in gravity defying, awe inspiring glory. Sure, the house has no value, save for artistic. At first when I saw this place I thought that is was cool, but ultimately useless. As I’ve had time to think about it, I just can’t imagine how much work went into making it true to it’s opposite form. Was it a waste of time for the workers? A waste of money for the financial backers? A waste of materials, carbon etc…? At the end of my deliberation, I came to the conclusion that it was worth every cent, splinter and dead tree, because it inspires and dares us to dream of a time when our imaginations could do anything.
