Object study: the chair outside the café on Rua da Graça

The café on Rua da Graça puts out six chairs at 9:00. Five match. The sixth is older, bentwood, with a back hoop that has been glued and clamped at least once. I asked to borrow it for an hour. The owner said take two, nobody sits in that one.

Front: the hoop is not round. It is a bit flatter on the left, where someone has leaned on it for years. I drew it round first, out of politeness, and then drew it honestly.

Side: the back legs splay further than the front ones, about two fingers' width at the floor. That is why it does not tip when you lean back to look at the castle.

Above: the seat is a circle with a bite out of it, where the cane was replaced with a plywood patch. From above, the patch is the most interesting thing in the street.

Note: a bentwood chair has almost no joints. It is one idea, bent until it agrees with itself. I spent the whole hour looking for a joint to draw and found two screws.

I returned it at 10:15. Still nobody in it.