{"id":4003,"date":"2009-02-04T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/02\/04\/a-subway-washroom-worth-discovering\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T01:58:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:58:06","slug":"a-subway-washroom-worth-discovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/04\/a-subway-washroom-worth-discovering\/","title":{"rendered":"A subway washroom worth discovering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3090\/3254493980_3e09bb3efb_o.gif\" height=\"424\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While my multiple jobs at Spacing keeps me almost entirely focused on public spaces outside, I do have a fascination with indoor spaces and how they are designed. In my eyes, a room&#8217;s layout is no different than laying out a page of a magazine: I need to find the appropriate space for specific objects, whether it&#8217;s photos and text or a couch and table. This would also explain my excitement for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interiordesignshow.com\/2009\/index.php\">Interior Design Show<\/a> (which starts Thursday) down at the Direct Energy Centre on the CNE grounds.<\/p>\n<p>So when I come across ideas that merge public spaces with interior design I get quite excited. This happened recently when <a href=\"http:\/\/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/21\/bathroom-art\/\">I discovered a post<\/a> from an excellent New York Times blogger Christoph Niemann. He&#8217;s an illustrator and author whose work has appeared in numerous hot-shot mags (New Yorker, Atlantic) and two children&#8217;s books, but his NYT posts are a fun way of story-telling that illustrators rarely get to explore in print.<\/p>\n<p>His young kids are obsessed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanrail.net\/am\/nyrk\/new-york.htm\">New York subway system<\/a> so when his family recently relocated to Berlin and was renovating their new place, he wanted to experiment with tile art in the kids&#8217; washroom. His boys were rewarded with a shower and tub decorated with the NYC subway map. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/21\/bathroom-art\/\">the full post<\/a> (scroll down to the bottom to see the kids&#8217; washroom).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/blogs\/niemann\/posts\/2008\/09\/12_2.jpg\" height=\"650\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it might appear that he is just spoiling his kids Arthur and Gustav, you have to read his <a href=\"http:\/\/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/01\/the-boys-and-the-subway\/\">amazingly endearing post<\/a> about how truly obsessed the kids are with the subway system: they cry when they can&#8217;t get on the local line, they give better directions than their father, and this beauty of a story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A chaperone on one of Arthur&#8217;s school trips told me something he overheard when all the kids were neatly lined up in rows of two. The girl holding Arthur&#8217;s hand asked him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have you heard of Peter Pan?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153have you heard of Metro North?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/blogs\/niemann\/posts\/2008\/07\/niemann4.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<em>photos and illustrations by Christoph Niemann<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my multiple jobs at Spacing keeps me almost entirely focused on public spaces outside, I do have a fascination with indoor spaces and how they are designed. 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