Park Toilette

Looking back in the history of our cities - and thus also parks – one determines that so-called street furniture played a major role than today. Nowadays often anthracite-colored paintwork of these elements is causing invisibility in public spaces. An intention of a designed shape is no longer ascertainable. Benches, dustbins, phone boxes, and in German so-called “Bedürfnisanstalten“ were – in the past much more than today – read and designed as furniture of the public space.
The artistic handling of these objects was much more reflective than today. Objects of public space were evoking a kind of branding for cities through their architectural expression. You can still see this in European cities today; an example is Vienna. The city's furniture forms the subconsciously perceived background or, better, the scenery of the public life that takes place in front of it.