At the garden center

Both photos were taken at Foltz nursery & gardens. Inside the barn -entrance through the blue door- garden tools are sold, as well as vintage items for home and garden. And there's the pay desk for all that you wish to bring home.

Happy Saturday!

Falling leaves

A hidden and quiet spot on the lands of garden nursery Tuingoed Foltz in Meeden. And yes, the leaves are falling and falling!

Mosaic chair

When you enter the exhibition 'DE KONING VAN GRONINGEN' ('THE KING OF GRONINGEN') in the Groninger Museum, you pass this majestic mosaic chair. It is placed on a high cube of which the front is a mirror that (when I was there) reflected a small stool standing in the hallway.
Note how the chair fits in perfectly with the colourful tiled wall!

The exhibition shows the art collection of Jan Albert Sichterman (1692-1764), a merchant from Groningen and said to be one of the most striking figures of the 18th century. The collection includes Asian ceramics, porcelain, portraits, furniture, silver, and so much more. It can be seen until March 1.

Linking to Weekend Reflections.

The soft chair

This remarkable chair is a piece of art named ´Mother´s Invention´, and is one of the 'Horti sculptures' by Ferdi Tajiri-Jansen (1927-1969). It belongs to the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, but can now be seen as part of the exhibition ´Pop Art´ in Museum De Valkhof in Nijmegen.

Ferdi started to create Horti sculptures in 1966. On a trip through Mexico she became fascinated by the boundless vitality and the amazing wealth of colour of the nature there. The Horti sculptures radiate the spirit of the sixties: psychedelic, playful, colourful, flower power. This sculpture depicts the domain of motherhood: a place of refuge, a place of rest, and a throne for the Alma Mater. (Latin alma "nourishing/kind, mater "mother")

The red chairs

When you take a seat in either one of these red chairs inside the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, a mechanism in the "lamps" is activated; on the left a voice starts reading poetry ('fersen' in Friesian language), and on the right you can hear a song ('music' is 'musyk' in Friesian).

Come and have a seat, my dear..

..and smell the flowers.

Some of the flowerbeds had nicely painted chairs, like this one. 

At the Gartenschau in Papenburg, Germany.

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Detail of a garden chair as part of a set of 4 chairs and a table, for sale and displayed outside an antique shop in Smeerling.

Participating in The Weekend in Black and White.

watching chairs

Did you ever had a feeling that you were being watched from behind? Well, you certainly will if you sit down here.  ;)

These three stand (or sit?) near the entrance of museum De Buitenplaats in Eelde.

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Piazza San Pietro / the Saint Peter square / het Sint Pietersplein

Vatican City, Rome