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Broken bottles and shells decorate a thirty-metre tower
Simon Rodia spent 33 years building the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Steel and concrete structures are decorated with pieces of bottles, pottery and shells. The tallest reaches about thirty metres. Small everyday fragments became the surface of a much larger work.
Tiny pieces helped give a skyline-sized creation its texture.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05