Chances are, at some point you’ve seen a plastic pink flamingo, or perhaps a whole flock, adorning someone’s lawn. Wherever it was, you have Donald Featherstone to thank for that neon memory in your ...

One American product whose popularity may just outlive the Green Giant is - wait for it - the pink lawn flamingo. Well, the creator of the plastic lawn statue died on Monday - Donald Featherstone. He ...

Featherstone, a trained sculptor with a classical art background, immortalised the bird in plastic in 1957, creating an icon of American kitsch The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ...