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Hundreds of colourful café chairs create a huge roller coaster in a French town square

Artist Baptiste Debombourg has transformed a French town square into a colour scene that you'd expect to find at your local amusement park, except on this occasion the roller coaster is made entirely from more than a thousand colourful café chairs.

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Roller coaster sculpture made from over a thousand colourful café chairs at Place du Bouffay in Nantes, with looping green, blue, red and yellow sections towering above a town square

Entitled Stellar, the temporary installation is located at the Place du Bouffay in Nantes and took almost a year to complete. Although the sculpture is static, the clever use of colour and the insanely intricate loops gives the impression of movement, to mimic the fast-paced excitement you'd expect when riding a roller coaster of this kind.

Apparently, Debombourg drew inspiration from an artwork that Robert Delaunay made for the Palais de l’Air during the Paris World’s Fair in 1937. If you want to go and see this installation, alas – it's no longer. Instead, you can enjoy the pictures below to get a good idea of how the sculpture took over an entire public space.

Via Junk Culture | All images courtesy of Baptiste Debombourg

Blue, yellow and red café chairs stacked and looped high into the air in Baptiste Debombourg's Stellar installation at Place du Bouffay in Nantes, with historic buildings and outdoor seating visible below
Red and yellow café chairs form swooping loops of a roller coaster installation in a town square, with historic buildings visible behind
Baptiste Debombourg's Stellar installation made from over a thousand colourful café chairs forms an intricate roller coaster structure in Place du Bouffay, Nantes
Bright red and yellow café chairs form a towering roller coaster sculpture in a Parisian town square, with historic buildings visible behind it
Colourful roller coaster sculpture made of over a thousand stacked café chairs in vibrant loops, towering above Place du Bouffay square in Nantes surrounded by Parisian-style buildings
Colourful café chairs arranged in dynamic looping curves against a blue sky, creating the illusion of a roller coaster in motion
Colourful café chairs form a towering roller coaster sculpture with looping tracks in red, yellow, green and blue at Place du Bouffay in Nantes, France
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