Originally published on al.arte.magazine Many Cairenes probably agree that Friday mornings in the Egyptian capital are the best. Exhibit one: the many friends who have decided to take a weekly stroll through one of the city’s districts before the first sounds of the Friday prayer’s call even resound. Pigeons circling around their towers, countless buildings tickling the beige smog, and a mother airing blankets from her third floor balcony.This might catch the eye that decides to look up. Yet Manar Moursi and David Puig’s attention was drawn to something more down-to-earth during one of their walks: Cairo’s chairs. Sidewalk Salon: 1001 Street Chairs of Cairo, their photography project that has been going on for years and has the chairs in the leading role, is hopefully going to take the shape of a book later this year. “During one of our long walks, in Port Said Avenue, we were taking pictures. We started to see those chairs and were intrigued,” David Puig describes how the project started. “We were mostly attracted by the visual element at the time. The chairs were aesthetically striking objects and we were looking at them as sculptures without thinking that much about who is sitting…
