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One of the moments that makes all the stress of travel worthwhile.
Waiting for the ferry to Sicily, this guy in a kind of beat up car in front of me was repacking his stuff, and pulled this out.
I went over and we were able to converse in Spanish. I told him how great they were and gave him one of our mini books.
He had driven to Barcelona with a bunch of these little constructions to sell, but hadn’t sold any. Price, about 50 Euros (cheap!).
Native Siciliano, Marco Paderni, from Catania.
Then he took out a 2nd smaller one (second pic), pointed to it and said “Regalo” — gift. I thanked him, but demurred, referring to air travel.
What generosity! Isn’t it strange how people with the least resources are the most generous?
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Marvelous. (so did you or did you not find a way to bring the gift “home”?)
hope you were able to tell him/he understood you have this website, and checks to see he is featured.
Suspect he would be pleased to see his work here. Even better if he has contact info he/you can post. Who knows, might
generate future income.
Looks like you are hving fun…stay safe.
Wow! Very cool! Love the “affordable housing”
in spirit anyway… makes for a nice dream.
Thanks for sharing
These are absolutely beautiful! Do you have any additional information about the artist, contact details, etc?