Here’s another classic Keep Louisville Weird moment (or should it be Keep Louisville Trashy?). We spotted this chair perched high atop a street tree on Kentucky Street just west of Barret Avenue in front of the old Quill’s Coffee Shop. We couldn’t find any reason the chair should be there, except that someone may have thought it constituted art. We don’t see the art of throwing a dingy lawn chair into a tree, but if you painted it all sorts of crazy colors or something, we might say maybe. Chairs in trees. Louisville. It’s only possible here.
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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
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You should check out the chair tree shown here, across from what used to be the lava house:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.232024,-85.738847&spn=0.00153,0.002414&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=38.232012,-85.738741&panoid=7_aH7B9Kk3J13vAmMiLTHw&cbp=12,225.4635313901491,,0,5
According to the people that live there, it’s just a convenient way to store multiple chairs out of the way. You can’t see them very well, but there are at least 6 chairs in that tree.
That’s a lot of chairs in one tree. Just stopped by but today the lawn chairs were actually in the lawn, not the tree. At least you can see them in the street view picture. Thanks for the tip.