- Born
- Died
- Bennet Abrams was born on November 28, 1931 in Belvidere, Illinois, USA. He is known for The House on Skull Mountain (1974). He died on August 3, 2004 in San Marcos, California, USA.
- Worked as an artist before co-founding California Country Trees in 1984, later changed to NatureMaker. It has grown to a multimillion-dollar business with nearly 50 artists and other workers, which creates artificial trees of steel, foam and mulch that decorated hotels and shopping malls around the world.
- Was a self-taught artist and naturalist, creating virtual flora ranging from five-story oaks to tiny bonsai pines which he called "eco-art."
- Among his projects were an Amazon rainforest for a Legoland in Windsor, England, a redwood forest for the American Wilderness Experience in Ontario, and a Vietnamese jungle commissioned by the First U.S. Army Division Museum in Wheaton, Ill.
- His fabricated trees were so lifelike they could pass for the organic versions from as close as 2 feet away. His faux plant technique used welded steel frames coated with wet mulch that was molded to resemble bark and painted in natural colors. His creations would last as long as real trees.
- No one will remember me, but these trees - they're non-biodegradable -will still be here in 200 years.
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