À Bordeaux, un sapin en verre recyclé installé pour la deuxième année
This Friday, the environmentalist mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, will inaugurate his recycled glass tree on Place Pey-Berlan. A work of art that still divides Bordeaux residents.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
In Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic persists and signs his politics of a Christmas”without a dead tree“. Place Pey-Berlan, the recycled glass Christmas tree shaped by Arnaud Lapierre is taking up residence opposite the town hall for the second year. While it will be arrested this Friday, December 9, the work of the designer artist continue to cleave. “I prefer the real Christmas tree because I love nature, but I must admit that well lit this glass tree looks magical“comments Jacqueline, 70 years old.
Jean-Luc, 63, is less lenient. “Pierre Hurmic is boring, like all green mayors. The Christmas tree is a Christmas tree, not a scrap thing», is indignant the nostalgic Bordelais of the time when «the stronghold of the right“Celebrates the Nativity”with nativity scenes and tall trees“. If he insists on the absence of “magicof this tree, he nevertheless admits that he “is not naughty“.
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With his photographer’s eye, Pierre-Jean Salles, 73, appreciates it. “I think well of it, because I didn’t know the tree before. What is nice with the glass is that when illuminated, it reflects the whole place“. A reflection precisely echoing the ambition of its creator. Arnaud Lapierre thought of the structure as “an invitation to capture and contemplate the mirror effects that refract the lights on its environment“.
The Bordelais “understand» the policy of the mayor
For or against, the Bordelais questioned recognized a decision “logic» with regard to ecological program by Pierre Hurmic. “I understand and at the same time, I’m not sure that this glass tree was the solution“, underlines Quentin, 22 years old, “very attachedin the spirit of Christmas“.
On the side of the town hall, the desire for a Christmas “festive, sober and unitedis assumed. The 750 sets that will illuminate the city from December 9 to January 2, a period reduced by energy sobriety, are composed of low consumption LED diodes. Choices, which allow the local authority to save 400 euros over the period. As for the recycled glass installation, it is claimed in a press release as “an artistic, sustainable and sober vision of the Christmas tree with a low carbon impact“.
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