A weekly celebration of the chair through photography
Title: Chair & Leaves
Photographer: Barbara Cole
Chair/designer: Unknown (Do you know?)
Artist links: www.barbaracole.com
(About Chair & - All Chair & photographs can be purchased online at the Meter Gallery)
Those are Bryant Park chairs. Anyone turned one over and looked for identification on one?
Edouard Leclerc had the design patent in 1889. The French outdoor furniture manufacturer Fermob produces them from the original patent. There is also an indoor version (in homage to the original) in leather produced by Zanotta, designed by Marco Zanuso in 1978 called the Celestina.
Reminds me of the romantic montage in the movie "Diva", which I hadn't thought about in years until seeing this photo.
I used to eat lunch in Bryant Park all through grad school. It's a really lovely place, and really no bigger than the small neglected park a block from me.
It's interesting how closely the chairs are intentionally positioned by each of their most recent sitters, and yet turned in such a way as not to relate to the other chairs any more than necessary. They don't block each others view of what's beyond on the right, but they maintain a respectful distance, although those two on the back left look like there might be some room for possibilities for a conversation that might have turned the sitters into talkers and they walked out of the frame of this shot.
The only image that stick with me from "Diva" is the shades-wearing shaved-head guy chiming in periodically about the various things in that particular moment that he hates. "Je deteste les voitures" ("I hate cars"), for instance.
And then there's the whole abstract thing going on. I like this one as much as the Chair and Shadow one a couple weeks ago. Same artist.