CAFÉ DE TANNAY STUDIO
STUDIO VISIT
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INTERIOR SPACES
RdC / barroom
You find yourself... in the former barroom of the Café de Tannay... The 19C cement floor tiles have a flowery pattern. The east wall is in natural stone masonry. It has two double arches and a sculpted niche. One wonders at how the arches plunge into the floor. What was their function, what did they support? Do they continue below the current level? Have they been constructed only to support the wall’s weight? And what about the niche? Was it a safe, or some cool storage? It sits in the left arch. The fireplace in the opposite wall is just a large black hole, some mantle or two must have disappeared there. The room is sparsely furnished. Amidst a jumble of construction tools two elegant black table chairs await cleaner times. Between the wall with fireplace and the arched wall is the separation wall with a kitchen. Four passages connect the two splaces. A wider passage which allows to see the masonry wall continue, half a double arch extending into the kitchen, one simple wooden door and two empty ancient stone portals in the middle. The fourth wall is the café’s façade, with two windows and the main entrance door.
(to be continued)
CONNECTIONS
kitchen
garden
façade
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