the.com/crazy paving
Order fakes a nervous breakdown so your garden path looks interesting.
means A paved surface made of irregular, randomly fitted flat stones or broken slabs, often used for patios and garden paths.
from A straightforward 20th-century English compound: 'crazy' here keeps its older sense of 'cracked' or 'full of fissures' (as in 'crazed pottery' glaze), not 'insane.' Paving laid in odd, irregular broken pieces looked like a crazed, cracked surface — so it got the name. The gardening fashion took off in the early-to-mid 1900s, especially in Britain, as a cheap way to reuse broken paving slabs.
- origin
- Used broken stone slabs as cheap postwar materials shortage fix
- radiology term
- Lung CT pattern named after this exact paving style
- design irony
- Looks random but needs careful planning to fit together
- peak era
- 1950s suburban Britain, right before everyone regretted it