New Art and Art Deco

This weekend Lindsey, her parents and I all spent Saturday together doing really artsy things. We started the morning out with a trip to the New Art Festival in the Glebe. I love the glebe. It’s such a cool area of town. Anyway, the art show was full of artists selling their wares. You had everything from pottery to painting to robots and this one pop art display where they had painted keyboards and messed them up a bunch and were selling them. They looked really weird and not something I could see most people being into. It would’ve been cool if the display was like one keyboard amongst a bunch of other pieces but it was literally just a bunch of weirdly painted keyboards. Ha ha.

After the New Art Festival we decided to partake in the Open Doors Ottawa weekend where different buildings in Ottawa open their doors to let people come in and check out their places, there were churches, city buildings, embassies and other buildings all open for people to peruse. We went into the United church on Bank at Aylmer and the Royal College of Physicians. The RCP was awesome, it was an old Nunnery converted into an office compound. It was gorgeous and well maintained, those doctors certainly know how to spend their money. The real highlight though for us was to go to the French Embassy. We had to wait in line but it was so cool. From the outside it looks like another old building in Ottawa but when you go in, wow. An ode to Art Deco at its peak with hints of Louis XIV era furniture. The ballroom was exquisite and they even let us go into the Ambassador’s office and walk through (no pictures allowed though). Those photos are all up on Flickr so that you can see them.  It was a lot of fun.