“The beautiful is made up of an eternal and unvarying element, the exact quantity of which is exceedingly difficult to determine, and if another element that is relative, circumstantial — which is, if you will, by turns or all at once representative of the period, fashion, morality, passion.” * Remnants of a dance studio haunt the dining room of the late photographer David Seidner’s turn-of-the-19th-century atelier in Montparnasse, Paris. Stripped of its past, save for the hazy luminescence of retained ballet mirrors, an ambiguous melancholy pervades the room’s sober theatricality, where gray-green walls mirror the pearl-gray light of Paris outside its windows. * To create the illusion of romantic neglect Seidner built up the walls with layers of spackling applied with a spatula, and streaked the floors with white wood stain to obtain the effect of sun bleaching. * In the second photo a concrete and fiberglass dining table is surrounded by Jean-Michel Frank chairs. * #davidseidner #photographer #americanphotographer #atelier #artiststudio #montparnasse #atelierparis #jeanmichelfrank #ambiguity #sober #theatrical #rawspace #theartoftheroom https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jAc7FCA8E/?igshid=bfqwnct380xr
