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Hyattsville, MD Vanadu Art Cars & House

3810 Nicholson St Hyattsville, Maryland, USA

Vanadu Art Cars & House

Many years ago, museum curator Clark Bedford found himself alone and with plenty of time on his hands in his modest, mid-sized Maryland home. From that day forward, Bedford used all of his energy and a pile of unique objects and recycled metal to create one of the most hidden, incongruous, and extravagant art houses in the world.

Called "Vanadu," Clarke Bedford's art house is filled with a vast collection of antiques, junk and historic objects. In the tightly packed collection of sculptures and mosaics, you'll find a horned wooden owl, a black-and-white striped cone, a skull, a statue of John Locke, a German language globe stuffed into a rusty horn, and a woman's face covered in glass and colorful junk.

Clarke Bedford owns four fully functioning art cars made of everything from car parts to used washing machine parts to moose antlers, which are usually set up along the roadside of the art house. The most famous car, the moving Vanadu Ford, features vases and horns on the sides and graveyard pillars on the roof, and even has its own Facebook account. When he worked as a curator for the Hirshhorn Museum, Bedford drove one of the ornate silver cars to work, and to this day, the art cars are one of Bedford's primary modes of transportation.

Clarke Bedford named his art car and home "Vanadu" in honor of the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose famous "Kubla Khan" poem grew out of an opium-induced dream about the ancient Chinese city of Xanadu, once under the rule of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. In addition to "Vanadu," Bedford also calls his collection of recycled materials "Assemblage Cottage," which is pronounced with a French accent as "As-sem-blage Co-ttage."

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