At first glance I thought this must be in North Africa and the top was a small minaret. However it turns out it is in Sultana in California and is believed to resemble a moonshine jug. There is also an asian perfume called Sultana. So the resonances are considerable.
Apparently the fact that it is a bottle shaped house built out of bottles means it has self similarity in mathematical terms, the individual components (in this case bottles) assemble to create the same shape, a larger bottle, like fractals
It is wonderful wherever it is and whatever it is meant to resemble. I like the banded design and it must be dazzling when the sunlight streams in.
It is in a private garden and first surfaced on Matt mr goleta’s Flickrstream.
Just photographed the same structure today. It was built by James Bartlett in the 1930s.