CAFÉ DE TANNAY STUDIO
Café de Tannay Studio
What went before
Welcome to an all new café
Tannay, 22 September 2008 — Only one week before the second anniversary of signing the contract to buy the property, to the returning curious we offer a major update of the studio log, while the renovation project reaches its first state completion. So what’s with the disclaimer?... a ‘first state completion’? Can’t we yet invite our friends and colleagues for its house warming? Or offer it to artists, writers and publishers as their studio-away-from-the-studio? Well, actually we could, we do. We opened another website to introduce the almost-finished place: cafedetannay.com and soon following artist residency information will be available.
However with all the shocking changes that have taken place since we started stripping the original building, in the ‘finishing’ we find plenty detailing only to be started. We render the place habitable, not completed. Also the café will now have to learn, as buildings learn, from its use, from its visitors, from our and other persons’ occupancy.
Every space of the house has been updated in this site and new spaces have been created: it deserves a full scan. The latest interior images however you find through a shortcut in the mise-en-scène chapter. As you can see we are ready to rent out.
Next updates will be gradual, show refinement, detailing, decoration — as with the proper house — adding reference, responding to feed-back, user intervention. So keep coming back. Or come over. By now you should know where to find us.
¶ Regelmatige bezoekers van deze site krijgen in september 2008 eindelijk een grote update, nu het restauratieproject de voltooiing van de eerste fase nadert. Een ‘eerste fase’ omdat we, met alle ingrijpende veranderingen aan de oorspronkelijke staat van het pand, in de afwerking voortdurend details ontdekken waar we graag aandacht aan zullen besteden. Het pand wordt bewoonbaar maar niet ‘kant-en-klaar’ opgeleverd. Het café zal moeten leren, zoals alle behuizingen leren, van het gebruik door zijn bezoekers, van onze bezetting. Om dat leerproces te bevorderen wordt het inmiddels te huur aangeboden, via een nieuwe website: cafedetannay.com.
Elke ruimte in het huis is op deze Studio site uitgebreid en geactualiseerd. Nieuwe ruimtes werden gevormd. De meest recente interieurfoto’s zijn in het mise-en-scène hoofdstuk te vinden. Daar is ook te zien dat we klaar zijn voor de verhuur.
Komende vernieuwingen van de informatie zullen vooral een verfijning en detaillering te zien geven — net als in het huis zelf. We voegen referenties toe en reageren op de reacties van gebruikers. Kom dus vooral terug. Of beter: kom langs.
What went before
Café de Tannay Studio is a project by Dutch artist Jouke Kleerebezem in which he expands on the restoration of a historical piece of property in France.
Café de Tannay was acquired by the SCI Le Moulin du Merle and is renovated by among others Claude Vejux, Driss Surig, Gilberthe Akkermans and JK. Aiming to investigate the future status and exploitation of the property, the web site for the moment functions primarily as a memory space and draft book. It also hopes to cater to a growing curiosity after the project. After the renovation will be finished (summer-fall 2008) other publications in print and on-line will follow.
Café de Tannay Studio anticipates a new appreciation of the artist’s studio, as a site disconnected (if only occasionally and partly) from an everyday economy of material, manufacture and meaning, in celebration of alternative conditions for fabrication, reflection and interaction.
¶ Café de Tannay Studio is een project van beeldend kunstenaar Jouke Kleerebezem waarin de verwerving (door SCI Le Moulin du Merle), de verbouwing (door o.a. Claude Vejux, Driss Surig, Gilberthe Akkermans en JK) en de toekomstige status en exploitatie van het Café de Tannay wordt uitgewerkt. Deze website dient vooral als schetsboek. Met de afronding van de verbouwingsfase (zomer-herfst 2008) zullen andere publicaties in druk en op het Internet volgen.
Café de Tannay is situated in Tannay, ancient wine town in the Nièvre department in the Burgundy region. As a result of the mid-19C Phylloxera epidemic all wine growing activity had disappeared from Tannay slopes. Since some years however production in the area is increasing and gaining reputation. The Caves Tannaysiennes and Domaine de Sarmentole (see links) produce several awarded wines. Also as a religious center Tannay had its importance, certainly since 1201 when the church founded a collégial, a collegial.
¶ Het Café de Tannay is gesitueerd in het voormalige wijnstadje Tannay in de Franse Nièvre, departement in de westelijke Bourgogne. Als gevolg van de Phylloxera epidemie van eind 19e eeuw verdween de wijnbouw zo goed als geheel van de hellingen rond Tannay, maar sinds een aantal jaren wordt de productie in het gebied met succes uitgebreid. De Caves Tannaysiennes en het Domaine de Sarmentole (zie links) brengen verschillende bekroonde wijnen op de markt. Daarnaast was Tannay ook als religieus centrum van belang, vooral sinds 1201, toen er een collégial (collegiaal kapittel) werd geïnstalleerd.
Today, Tannay is your typical French provincial town, two-and-a-half hours south of Paris, with the charms of a prosperous past under decreasing activity. All basic conveniences are still available: two bakeries, a butcher, pharmacy, several bars, two shoe stores, two hairdressers, a book store, a hardware store and a small supermarket at the edge of the town. ADSL comes in at 1, 8 or 18Mb/sec. Tannay has just under 600 inhabitants and is the administrative center of the ‘Canton de Tannay’. The French railways keep a bus connection going at least 4 times a day, and in the week-end one direct train from and to Paris, at Tannay-Gare. Most touristic interest is focussed around the river Yonne and cruising the Canal du Nivernais. The pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostella goes by Tannay, which is the first stop after Vezelay. National Park the Morvan is at 15 km.
¶ Tannay is een typisch Frans provinciestadje, met de charme van een florissant verleden onder afnemende bedrijvigheid. Alle basisvoorzieningen zijn nog aanwezig: bakkers, slager, apotheek, café’s, twee schoenenwinkels, een maison de presse/boekhandel, een kado-artikelenwinkel en een middelgrote supermarkt. Een ADSL-verbinding is tot 18Mb/sec. verkrijgbaar. Tannay heeft een kleine 600 inwoners en is het administratieve centrum van het ‘Canton de Tannay’. De Franse spoorwegen onderhouden er een aantal dagelijkse bus- (naar het centrum) en eenmaal per week een uit Parijs doorgaande treinverbinding (naar Tannay-Gare). De toeristische interesse richt zich vooral op de nabije rivier de Yonne en op de pleziervaart op het Canal du Nivernais. De pelgrimsroute naar Santiago de Compostella loopt door Tannay, dat de eerste pleisterplaats na Vezelay is. Het nationale park de Morvan ligt op 15 km. afstand.
Maps and plans (to follow)
Situation: 47°22'00.70" N / 3°35'24.22" E
Data (to follow)
Restoration 2007-2008
Acquisition 30 September 2006
First visit 17 May 2006
History (to follow)
— previous owners
— 19C Relais de Poste, stables in courtyard?
— Café?
— Winery?
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SPACES
EXTERIOR
- garden
- shelter
- storage
- façade
- courtyard
INTERIOR
- basement (SOUS): wine cellar.
- ground floor (RdC): entry staircase in tower; former barroom; kitchen; washing room, passage; shower-toilet; staircase.
- second floor (1): small landing; bathroom; landing; sitting room/bedroom 1; sitting room/bedroom 2; staircase in tower.
- attic (2): staircase landing; attic.
IMMEDIACY
- Tannay village
- suppliers and dumps
Café mise-en-scène September 2008
ORIGINAL INTERIOR
HISTORICAL TANNAY IMAGERY
INFORMATION
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Café de Tannay gîte rental
LINKS
EXTERIOR
RdC / garden
The garden lighting was installed into niches in the garden wall; on the left is the descent to the wine cellar, on the right is the well.
garden lighting behind plant growth
RdC / shelter
Leaning to the tower is a roof which was left over from a former greenhouse.
the shelter
RdC / storage
Under the tower staircase is a small storage space.
access to storage space
RdC / façade
The bar’s original front entrance via the garden from the Rue Ste Agathe is being restored.
above: façade on the garden.
below: idem with staircase tower.
RdC / courtyard
The house’s backside gives onto a public courtyard. For decades it was used by its respective owners as the main entrance.
above: the cour commune
below: small wing in the back of the house.
INTERIOR
SOUS / wine cellar
Probably thanks to the house’s original function as a bar, the wine cellar is accessible both from the public courtyard and from the garden.
above: access from garden
below: courtyard side of wine cellar
RdC / entry tower staircase
The floors are accessed from the garden via a stone spiral staircase at the left side of the main entrance; it is one of the oldest parts of the house, dating from late 15C.
entry tower staircase
RdC / former barroom
Access to the former barroom is via the courtyard side kitchen in the back, or via the front garden.
above: fireplace in west wall
below: main entrance in garden
RdC / kitchen
Access to the kitchen is from the former barroom, from the washing room or from the outside courtyard.
recovered stone door frames between barroom and kitchen
RdC / washing room, passage
The washing room is accessible down the stone steps from the second floor landing as well as from the kitchen. It houses the washing machine and hot water boiler.
washing room with temporary sanitary
RdC / shower-toilet
The shower-toilet was split off from the former washing room.
now only to be tiled!
RdC / staircase
From the washing room a small stone staircase leads to the second floor landing from which the bathroom and sitting room/bedrooms are accessed.
stone staircase
1 / small landing
At the top of the stone staircase the door to the bathroom is on the left, one to the landing accessing the upstairs rooms on the right and one to a wallpapered cupboard right in front.
too small to be properly photographed, but in wide angle or detail
1 / bathroom
The bathroom is accessible from the washing room on the ground floor and from the second floor landing.
former bedroom-artist studio, future bathroom
1 / landing
Giving access to the two sitting room/bedrooms and to the toilet and bathroom is the second floor landing,
landing with passage to future bathroom
in the back on the left
1 / toilet
A separate toilet was added to the landing.
toilet on landing, same view as above image
1 / sitting room/bedroom 1
The first sitting room/bedroom can be accessed from the landing and from the connecting second sitting room/bedroom.
garden side wall with 18C corner cupboard
1 / sitting room/bedroom 2
The second sitting room/bedroom can be accessed from the first one and from the tower staircase leading up from the garden.
garden side wall and staircase access
1 / tower staircase
The stone spiral staircase in the small tower dates from late 15C. It connects all floors and the attic. On the ground floor and second floor it has a closed ancient passage to the next house.
stone spiral staircase
2 / tower staircase
The spiral stairs end at the door to the attic.
above: attic entry
below:view down the stairs from second floor
2 / attic
Under its slate roof the attic covers the entire house.
attic
IMMEDIACY
Tannay village
Whether you get out of the house via the small gate on the main street or via the common courtyard and porch, you find yourself in the center of the village. The house is situated in the bourg, the oldest part of Tannay.
from the Café’s garden wall looking up the
Rue Georges Sirdey
suppliers and dumps
The larger area of Tannay, south of Clamecy, near to the Yonne river and Canal de Nivernais, landscape and insustries are our source of inspiration and where we get our goods or dump our waste,
the Tannay landfill
LINKS
- Google Tannay
- Tannay in Wikipedia F
- Tannay in Patrimoine de France
- Caves Tannaysiennes
- Domaine de Sarmentole
- Phylloxera in France
(ARTIST PROJECTS)
- David Ireland’s 500 Capp St. (1975-?)
San Francisco USA
(see also David Ireland book by the University of California Berkeley/Bancroft Library’s Regional Oral History Office’s publication; scroll down, or use straight link to 5.4M pdf)
- Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau (1923-1937)
Hannover D
(THE ARTIST STUDIO)
Google image reference “artist studio”
Google image reference “studiolo”
(BOOKS)
- Alechinsky à la ligne; Folon/Alechinsky studio photo’s and mapping, Weber publishers, Paris F/1973
- The Artist in his Studio; Alexander Liberman, Thames and Hudson/1969
- The Blurring of Art and Life; Alan Kaprow, University of California Press/1993
- How Buildings Learn; What Happens After They’re Built; Stewart Brand, Viking Press/1994 (link to Wikipedia source)
+ Phil Gyford’s knowledgable summary of HBL
- A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture; Ann Cline, MIT Press/1997
- Le Mur; un itiniéraire architectural; Évelybe Péré-Christin, Éditions ALternatives/2001
- The Poetics of Space; Gaston Bachelard, Beacon Press/1994
- Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media; Beatriz Colomina, MIT Press/1996
- The Production of Houses; Christopher Alexander, Oxford University Press/1985
(OTHER SOURCES?)
- Re/public art:
In the Place of the Public Sphere? Or, the World in Fragments; Simon Sheikh
(OFF-STUDIO)
- W. Heath Robinson’s households?
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