Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Sitting Pretty


All Bent Up

And Nowhere

To Go

But Behind the Scenes At the Museum!


Thonet Bent Beech Wood Chairs
Manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna,
for the
Museum of Natural History
Vienna

To learn more about
Michael Thonet and the furniture he
began manufacturing in the 1830s,
click on the last picture.


13 comments:

  1. these are fun- nice original idea!

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  2. Have you read the book with the same title??

    I love the curvilinearity of it all . . .

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  3. STEPHANIE LEVY:
    They kepting coming up during the museum's tour. I have to go back one day to photograph them with a bit more time than shooting from the hip. ;-)

    TUT-TUT:
    Yes, I have read that book! ;-)
    More curves waiting behind the scenes, er, wings!

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  4. What beautiful chairs. I love how you have captured the curve. Such a photo opp.

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  5. such an awesome way of showcasing some great pictures ..lovely :)
    lakshmi

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  6. You do come out with the most unusual items to photograph and end up doing a great job of it. Nice title too. :)

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  7. Beautifulllll !
    You reminded me I HAVE to visit the Albertina Collection!!!
    Love the Bentwood.

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  8. One picture of those chairs looks almost like a railing. Interesting pics as always.

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  9. Such a cute posting!

    Mari-Nanci

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  10. Love the subject matter!

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  11. Oh wonderful, wonderful shots - I tried something similar the other day but only got one image I really liked! Such a brilliant eye you have, Merisi!

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  12. PHOTOWANNABE:
    I have to do more research,
    but I know for a fact that those chairs were made for the museum.

    BACKPAKKER:
    Sometimes time pressure or not knowing what to blog about produce compositions that surprise even myself. ;-)

    INDICASPECIES:
    Thank you!
    I guess having Vienna as a subject makes it easy to fetch eclectic pictures every now and then.

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  13. PARIS BREAKFASTS:
    The Albertina,
    among many others (weren't you a Josef Hoffmann aficionada? Then add Backhausen to your list! *smile*).

    BARBARA:
    Some of the chairs were lined up along the stair railings, pushed against study tables.

    SMILNSIGH N LORI LYNN:
    Thank you both!

    ABSOLUT VANILLA:
    Thank you! :-)
    I have to discard pictures all the time, mostly due to the fact that I shot them under time constraints and/or bad light conditions (I only shoot with available light). Learning by doing, I guess. ;-)

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