Mathieu Lehanneur is again in the news for making an art piece which speaks about the whole world. This creation speaks more of his intelligence than his artistic prowess. He has created urns, which reveal the population pattern of different countries.
Taking up demographic data and turning it into an aesthetic art piece is a sheer work of intelligence and skill.

These enamel textured urns might strike as just another artistic showpiece, but there is more to it, these pieces have a varying shape because each step in the curve represents the population of that place in that particular year.

The urn with the largest number of curves is the one which represents Russia. It is not surprising, as the population of Russia has varied consistently, could be because of World war or the much famed recession which hit it recently. On the contrary, Egypt and U.S.A have broader bases which represent the increase in population in the recent years.
 
These pieces have been made taking statistics of places till the year 2007, they stand 29.5″ tall and are priced at $9,000(6,000 euros). The height can be regulated as per the demands of the customers. The purchases can be directly made from the site mathieulehanneur.com.

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Crystal Lagoons is an ambitious company with big bucks to support its rather larger than life endeavors. Its most recent announcement impressed a lot of travellers. Well, the idea is to build the largest swimming pool in the world that too in the middle of the Eqyptian desert. We learnt that the pool will comprise tweleve giant lagoons at the Sharm El Sheikh beach along with 30,000 home units, five star hotels, a museum and a shopping center. Wow!!!

For the uninitiated, Crystal Lagoons constructed the largest pool in the world at San Alfonso del Mar in Chile. But soon it will be surpassed by its Egyptian relative which is expected to be completed by July this year.

Crystal Lagoons has a long history of working with important local investors. For this particular project, it is being supported by Pyramids Plaza and Citystar Holding. The total expenditure has been estimated to a whopping US$5,500. The project is located 3kms from the Red Sea and will be the first project that Crystal Lagoons ventured to do in Sharm El sheikh, Hurghada and Alexandria.

Via prnewswire