Featherstone, a sculptor, was hired by Leominster, Mass. He created the first pink flamingo lawn ornament, his second assignment, in Today's Top Stories.
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Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. It took about two weeks to model both halves of the bird, brought into the third dimension by then-revolutionary injection-mold technology. A flamingo-friendly trend was the sameness of post-World War II construction.
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By the s the pink flamingo had made its way into the fine art world in a variety of mediums. In Featherstone was awarded the Ig Nobel award for art, a spoof of the Nobel prizes that still manages to hold a fair amount of sway in professional circles. Proud moment in my life as I have in my possession a pair of Don Featherstone original pink flamingos and two very confused cats… Grad school definitely takes you on a wild ride.
But, you can tell an original from a fake by his signature embossed on the bottom. This feature is still present on the ones made today by Cado, the company which bought the rights to these most famous yard birds in
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