Sunday, October 30, 2011

La brouette de jardin


This beautifully handpainted (inside and out) cart is used to carry watering cans and other tools to the graves at Cimetière de Passy.  The French always seem to find a way to turn function into art!

14 comments:

ADEEYA said...

Reflection?

martinealison said...

Une manière d'embellir la dernière demeure...
gros bisous

Malyss said...

Yes,of course! why should usual and useful things be ugly?!
Have a nice sunday!

Leif Hagen said...

The more artsy fartsy the better, non?!
Bonne anniversaire encore un fois, V de B!

M said...

How true --- why should the functional be mundane when you can make it beautiful and unique!

Genie -- Paris and Beyond said...

Very different from our wheelbarrows in design and I love the "garden art" displayed on the sides. As Adeeya suggested, it almost looks like a reflection.

Paris Paul said...

Great angle for the photo, V! Lovely.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

What Malyss said Virginia. How clever of you to spot and capture this image.

Castles Crowns and Cottages said...

AGAIN...leave it to the French...AND..your little Parisian girl is going in the mail TODAY at my local supermarché post office!!!! Anita

Starman said...

Nice.

Alexa said...

Some would leave it plain, some would paint the outside only—but leave it to les français to embellish it on the inside too. Nice capture, V!

Dianne said...

It's so pretty - now who but the French would think to paint their water cart so delicately?

Owen said...

This may be the obvious French remark, but shucks :

Chouette la brouette !!!

Owen said...

PS, I finally got around this weekend to seeing Michael Moore's movie "Sicko"... have you seen that ? The scenes in Paris were interesting... going around with SOS Medecins, and observing how the French work to live, and not vice versa, vacation time and all. So even in their graveyards they pursue the ethic of quality of life, or should we say, quality of death afterwards?