Washington Square Tavern in Brookline has a slight obsession with antique bicycles — which we think is a handsome idea for bar decor — and this is their pièce de résistance. As bike owners and admirers we love the idea of putting a really beautiful bike, not just up on the wall, but framed like art on the wall...
Forgive our iPhone pictures — it was dark in the bar and all we had on us. Our best guess is that this fixed gear bike with wooden rims is circa 1900 and, although it could probably still be ridden, looks perfect from its framed perch. We could easily see this idea play out at home in a more modern or graphic way by painting a frame behind and/or around where the bike hangs on the wall.
Anyone have their own glorified treatment for wall-mounted bicycles?
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Those pictures look like that creepy little video from the movie "The Ring." SEVEN DAYS. AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
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You could add a few hubcaps, some NASCAR jerseys, an animal head or two and recreate Friday's, circa 1987.
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A now closed French restaurant and Bar in the River Market District of Little Rock, Arkansas was called Velo Rouge. The interior and exterior had red bicycles throughout.
I thought it was pretty cool and I wanted their vintage looking signs after they closed but they'd already done away with them.
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