I think everyone needs a column, or at bare minimum a pedestal. You can see my column in the first photo. I’ve lugged around this nine foot fluted column since I was about twenty two years old. I bought it at an architectural salvage store years ago. I was with a friend of mine (a middle aged Julia Child beast of a woman) and we were scouting around for good stuff. Being the lover of all things classic, I thought this particular column would be bang up in my gray living room. But, considering we were about 30 miles from my house and I was not going to suggest fitting the column into Julia’s new Cadillac, I sighed and assumed the column would never be mine.
“Maybe I can come back for it.” I thought. Then I remembered I drove a 1968 (gray of course) Mercedes and the underside of the car was so rusted out it was about to split in two. It could barely carry me much less my new found treasure. Besides, I knew a tow truck would be in my future if I asked my car to go 30 miles in one direction and then attempt a return trip.
But sensing my lust of the column, my friend quickly forced me to part with sixty dollars (which was a fortune to me at the time) and she had the column in the trunk of her Coup De Ville so quick my head was spinning.
Over the years I think I outgrow my column and it became a thing associated with the days when I decorated with posters and junk store finds. Slowly its moved from places of prominence to secondary vignettes.
That column has been painted black, white, gray and back again so many times its grown three inches in diameter. It’s been in every room in every house I’ve lived in since it first came home with me. Currently it resides in the back entrance of our Carriage House (which is a nice name for our garage apartment guest house and my office)!
These images make me think I should rethink its home.
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| photo credit Bruno Suet |
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| photo credit Eric Roth |
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| photo credit Francois Halard |
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| photo credit Francois Halard |
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| photo credit Richard Felber |
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| photo credit Richard Felber |
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| photo credit Roger Davies |
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| photo credit Roger Davies |
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| photo credit William Waldron |
I think you should embrace your old friend! Would love to see it!
ReplyDeletelove the Roger Davies photo... stunning.
hope you are cooler than we are;)
joan
Columns 24/7/365 as far as I'm concerned. Is there anything a (nice) column can't do? But I think it wants a mate.
ReplyDeletelove the placement of your column and the story of it's journey with you. for that alone it deserves a place of honor, and yes perhaps a mate, and children (pedestals). and that is just indoors!
ReplyDeletedebra
Love of the photo with the three columns sitting in the corner seemingly waiting for their staring role. You seem to have a lot of Roger Davies' photos. It there a book? They're all wonderful!
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