More than sleeping in a house in plastic bottles or heating the house with the trash! In this case, an unemployed Irish artist has surpassed any imagination, creating a house made of banknotes.
Happens in Dublin, where Frank Buckley has transformed an unused building, called The Glass House in Coke Lane, Smithfield, in a house made completely of money.
To realize his project, Frank had to scrape the remains of shredded bank notes worth a total of 1.4 billion euros, taken “on loan” from the Irish brand. But now we go to visit the most expensive house in the world.
Frank lives in this house, which consists of living room, bedroom and bathroom, the beginning of December. He is currently working to add a kitchen.
The walls are built with bricks of shredded bills and the house is so hot that Frank is sleeping without a blanket. Ironically states that “whatever is said about the euro, is a good insulator.”
The walls are decorated with images of banknotes and coins, among which are the image of a house made of 5 pence Irish. “There are houses in Ireland that are worth less than that,” jokes yet Buckley.
The aim of this work is to stimulate debate on the crisis of the economy and housing market, in a country like Ireland, after the building boom, has found since 2007 in a situation where homes have lost value and their owners are paying the consequences today.
