Giant clam shells are great sculptural objects. Here are some decor ideas.
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Giant clam shells make impressive coastal decor accents anywhere in the home. Coastal room by Kate Jackson Design, placing a giant clam shell on the coffee table.
In Ali Wentworth's Home in Washington DC, you find a giant clam shell owning the space in the fireplace.
Filling the space underneath a side table. Via Martha Stewart.
And here a few interesting facts about Real Live Giant Clam Shells via National Geographic:
The giant clam gets only one chance to find a nice home. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, there it sits for the rest of its life.
These bottom-dwelling behemoths are the largest mollusks on Earth, capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length and weighing more than 500 pounds (227 kg). They live in the warm waters of the South Pacific and Indian oceans.
Giant clams achieve their enormous proportions by consuming the sugars and proteins produced by the billions of algae that live in their tissues. In exchange, they offer the algae a safe home and regular access to sunlight for photosynthesis, basking by day below the water's surface with their fluted shells open and their multi-colored mantles exposed.
Giant clams have a wildly undeserved reputation as man-eaters, with South Pacific legends describing clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole. No account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated.
Giant Clam Shells Make Great Planters and Giant Clams Make Great Bowls, but they also look stunning just by themselves as sculptural pieces. Since giant clam shells are over harvested from the ocean for food, decor and the aquarium trade, get a clam shell cast in resin or stone. Most of the giant clam shells used for decor these days are cast clams.
Image: The Inspired Room
Two decorative clam shells are on display in this coastal blue living room.
The inside of this large decorative clam shell is painted in gold. Seen at The Ragged Wren Blog.
A giant clam shell decorating idea that draws the eye up.
In Ali Wentworth's Home in Washington DC, you find a giant clam shell owning the space in the fireplace.Filling the space underneath a side table. Via Martha Stewart.
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And here a few interesting facts about Real Live Giant Clam Shells via National Geographic:The giant clam gets only one chance to find a nice home. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, there it sits for the rest of its life.
These bottom-dwelling behemoths are the largest mollusks on Earth, capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length and weighing more than 500 pounds (227 kg). They live in the warm waters of the South Pacific and Indian oceans.
Giant clams achieve their enormous proportions by consuming the sugars and proteins produced by the billions of algae that live in their tissues. In exchange, they offer the algae a safe home and regular access to sunlight for photosynthesis, basking by day below the water's surface with their fluted shells open and their multi-colored mantles exposed.
Giant clams have a wildly undeserved reputation as man-eaters, with South Pacific legends describing clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole. No account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated.
