Seattle’s 'Inconvenience Store': A former 7-Eleven reopened as an art shop selling pre-tangled USB cables, a 'landline iPhone', fake corn dogs and useless everyday items
- Image: KINGS5EVENINGA former 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle has been given an unusual second life as an interactive art shop where familiar convenience-store products have been transformed into deliberately impractical artworks.
- Called the 'Inconvenience Store', the exhibition keeps much of the former shop's layout, including its aisles, checkout area, refrigerator and hot-food counter, but fills them with creations from more than 70 artists.
- Visitors can find pre-tangled USB cables, a 'landline iPhone' that plays U2's 'Vertigo' when answered, beeswax egg candles, bags made from Cheetos and Lay'
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- Image: KINGS5EVENINGA former 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle has been given an unusual second life as an interactive art shop where familiar convenience-store products have been transformed into deliberately impractical artworks.
- Called the 'Inconvenience Store', the exhibition keeps much of the former shop's layout, including its aisles, checkout area, refrigerator and hot-food counter, but fills them with creations from more than 70 artists.
- Visitors can find pre-tangled USB cables, a 'landline iPhone' that plays U2's 'Vertigo' when answered, beeswax egg candles, bags made from Cheetos and Lay'
Sources: Times of India