Main entry:

Moursi, Manar, photographer.

Title & Author:

Sidewalk salon, Cairo = صالون الرصيف / Manar Moursi & David Puig. Sidewalk salon, Cairo = Ṣālūn al-raṣīf / Manar Moursi & David Puig.

Publication:

[Eindhoven] Netherlands : Onomatopee ; [Cairo] : Al Kotob Khan for Publishing, [2015]

Description:

214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm + 3 maps

Series:

Onomatopee ; 114

Notes:
On cover: 1001 street chairs of Cairo.
On page 4 of cover: Alf kursī wa-kursī fī al-Qāhirah.
Introduction -- A confederacy of chairs / Manar Moursi & David Puig -- Series & Interviews -- The soul-crushing cafe / Yasser Abd al-Latif -- Ward and Mazzika / Mahamed al-Fakharany -- Elderly company preferred / Al-Taher Sharkawy -- Dictionary of the revolution / Amira Hanafi -- Poem / Maged Zaher -- Poem/ Malaka Badr -- Series & Interviews.
English and Arabic.

Summary:

Combining Polaroid photography and texts in English and Arabic, this book presents creative practices of design that occur on the sidewalk along with the unplanned interventions in the public space that give Cairo its distinctive character.Organized in two sections -- 'walks' and 'series' -- the book gives the reader a glimpse into our method of urban empiricism and our journeys on foot through the city, in which we documented street chairs by indexing on maps the locations of the seats photographed. The series sections reveal common formal characteristics of street chairs, while shedding a light on multiple techniques of recycling and redesign that people use to repair and improve their seats. Some of those series group together particular types of seats like armchairs and sofas, or curious pairs of twin chairs also found regularly on the pavement. Other sequences focus on the life cycle of chairs, showing different phases of their decay -- from their amputations to their final collapse -- or the miracle of their recovery with the help of various prostheses.

ISBN:

9789491677472 paperback
9491677470 paperback

Subject:

Street photography Egypt Cairo.
Chairs in art.
Outdoor furniture Egypt Cairo Guidebooks.
Photographie de rue Égypte Le Caire.
Meubles de plein air Égypte Le Caire Guides.
Outdoor furniture.
Street photography.
Egypt Cairo.

Form/genre:

Guidebooks.

Added entries:

Puig, David.
Onomatopee (Series) ; no. 114.

Ṣālūn al-raṣīf
Ṣālūn al-raṣīf, al-Qāhirah
Sidewalk salon, Cairo = صالون الرصيف / Manar Moursi & David Puig.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293221
Call No.: BIB 237979
Status: Available

Location: Library main 307863
Call No.: BIB 237979
Notes: maps
Status: Available