Gallery: Swirly Stained Glass Made Out of...Melted Gummy Bears?
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This looks like colored glass. In fact, it's a light box made with melted Gummy Bears.
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Marta Alonso Yebra and her design partner Imanol Caldéron Elósegui have spent the past five years working on them.
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Each box uses about two pounds of melted gummies, dripped onto the glass surface.
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The light boxes are based on a design project from 1998, in which Yebra had to create a pavilion for a competition. A scan of part of the project is seen here.
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One day she landed on the solution by chance, while eating Gummy Bears.
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She says the leading brand is the best gummy to use: “Haribo—I don’t know why, but the German guys are doing it the best—works really, really well,” she says. Plus, “it smelled terrific.”
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Plus, she says, "they smelled terrific.”
