It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be great if you could do the same; make your Wednesday a button day too. Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here in the comments.
This Button Wednesday is about Giant Buttons often found outside button shops. I love those button signs ! And I am still trying to convince my hubby that our house needs such a giant button sign too :) I am starting with the Knopenwinkel (i.e. button shop) in Amsterdam that I visited last year. The same shop has also gorgeous button door handles (photos by ninimakes on Flickr). 
The second one is at a shop called Tender Buttons in New York (Photo by Jo from Button Candy).
The third one is this giant yellow button sign above a tailor shop in Brugge (photo by Susan from Button It Up).
I don't know anything about this button sign which I found on Flickr (photo by Christina Anthony). I love the bright red colour !
No idea what this building in Latvia is, a button shop or a button factory ? Or maybe a bike shop ??? (photo by Gunta on Flickr)
And a button shop in Croatia (photo by Emily Kubec on Picasa)
And a beautiful one in New Zealand (photo by rlsycle on Flickr)
Last but not least, Guinness World Records' largest button at a button museum in Germany.
When I was making my weekly mosaic for ArtMind, I found a picture of a huge red button sculpture. I liked it instantly ! so big and bright ! Did some research into outside button sculptures and found some really great ones. Here they are, starting with the red one from my mosaic.
1. button, button, who's got the button?, 2. Lorrie's BUTTON, 3. grand rapids 1, 4. Lorrie's ButtonHy Zelkowitz
Lorrie's Button, 1976
Painted fiberglass and urethane foam
Ah-Nab-Awen Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
A huge red button on a tilted axis. The center of the button is pierced with four large holes. The sculpture was designed for children to climb on and is installed in a playground area of the park.
1. Les oeuvres d'art publiques de la région de Granby et de la Montérégie, 2. MTLskyline on skyscrapercity*forums
Esther Lapointe
Bouton, 1977
Tufo stone and marble
Lorne Park, Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada
1. The Button sculpture on the Penn Campus, 2. Button Sculpture 2, 3. Cute as a button, 4. Claes Oldenburg ‘Split Button’, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaClaes Oldenberg and Coosje Van Bruggen
Split Button, 1981
cast in reinforced aluminum and painted
Blanche Levy Park, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Split represents the river Schuylkill; it divides the button into four parts symbolic for Philadelphia’s original city quadrants designed by William Penn in 1683.
1. Downtown (4), 2. Thimble, 3. verabee.com, 4. Thimble & tattooStephen Cruise
Uniform Measure/Stack, 1997
bronze thimble and eight concrete buttons
northwest corner of Richmond Street and Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This area used to be the centre of garment factories of Toronto. The statue reflects on the contributions of its workers and on the presence of 'touch' in the making of garments.
1. Art District, 2. Needle and button, 3. Me in the Fashion District, 4. Button HolesPentagram Architectural Services
Needle and Button, 1995
Seventh Avenue and 39th Street, New York, NY, USA
The octagonal kiosk, which is the Fashion District Information Center, incorporates the world's largest button leaning against the kiosk, held upright by a long steel needle. The 5 holes are making a stylized F, which is the logo for the fashion district, which you can see on top of the kiosk.
1. alvik on eFoto.lt, 2. SCANDINAVIANS & BALTICS, 3. SCANDINAVIANS & BALTICS, 4. SocialinėMechanika
Vytautas Narutis
Buttons, 2005
Vienybes aikste, Kaunas, Lithuania
The sculptor says: "A button is a symbol that accompanies us from childhood. A button connects two parts of clothes, the destinies of people, two cities (i.e. Vilnius and Kaunas)". (Many thanks to the Lithuanian members of the European Street Team on Etsy for all the information so far !)
Do you know more button statues, memorials or sculptures ???? Please let me know !
This Button Wednesday is about Giant Buttons often found outside button shops. I love those button signs ! And I am still trying to convince my hubby that our house needs such a giant button sign too :) I am starting with the Knopenwinkel (i.e. button shop) in Amsterdam that I visited last year. The same shop has also gorgeous button door handles (photos by ninimakes on Flickr). 
