Travel: Door Obsession

All pictures below are doors (except the shutters) I purchased on my travels to Lyon & Paris. The procurement of each door told a different story, some were hard to believe while others droned on with very much wind. I will say however that each story, although hard to hear at times in that terrible Franco-English accent did leave me fully entertained. My favorite story came from a young french couple, the husband came from an old parisian family while the wife had moved to Paris from Bordeaux in the early 80s to study at Sorbonne. The story left me rather unsatisfied and prompted further inquiry that could have lasted for hours if not days (Part of me very much enthralled by the movement of her lips and her poise, even the way she touched the stem of her glass to take in a stream of velvet (C. Haut Brion) got my seat tight). Much of the story fanned out into the building's history and how door came to be prior to the construction of the building in the mid 1850's during Haussmann's urban planning of the city. The family's struggle during the revolution and how his great great grandfather had hidden some of their assets with relatives in an estate just outside of Ghent... Now that I think of it perhaps it wasn't the story at all, but just the idea of her backdoor. With all that said, the cultural significance of a door had not sat with me till I had embarked on this recent trip to France. The doors that I find myself entering most of the time are either glass panes with no depth or consumer fabricated objects that only sit with the interior designer's vision of the space. Up until recently there have been very few doors that I've entered that could stand alone or carry a building's facade. As time continues I can only hope that the craft doors and their entryway facades that join them are not forgotten. Although one may say the result of such aesthetics is a society's opulence and fat, a result of human greed, the idea of looking good, the idea of Versaille, something that sits with vanity and not reality. I say, "If you can, let go of the current reality go on and craft your own."

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