French Cafe Chair

French Café Folding Patio Bistro Table White/Brown – Threshold™ : Target

Even if you've never been to Paris, you've probably seen them in movies or magazines: those colorful little French coffee tables and tables that have been the hallmark of the Parisian cafe for over a hundred years.

And you're probably aware of the past they played in the history and culture of the last century, when the likes of Hemingway and Sartre, Fitzgerald and Picasso sat in these very chairs at these very tables, defining the art and literature and Philosophy of the Twentieth Century.

Serious stuff.

But there's a lot more going on in Paris a century ago than just philosophical discussion.

A lot more. And a lot wild!

The chairs and tables of the French bistro!

Oh, to be sure, to the untrained eye (or mind), coffee shop chairs and tables certainly look exactly like bistro chairs and tables.

However, French coffee shop chairs and tables signify coffee, croissants and philosophical debate; French bistro Chairs and tables are more about wine, music and romance. That magical La Vie En Rose.

For better like werewolves of French furniture, the cerebral cafe chair is transformed into the exotic bistro chair when the Parisian sun goes down.

Hemingway and Sartre, more Josephine Baker and Bricktop.

Which is not the twain shall meet.

For if Hemingway eschewed the bistro for the cafe, he took a peek every now and then. He is purported to have Josephine Baker that he is considered to be.

And Josephine Baker said, "I was not naked."

But she also said, "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen exclusively as a way to speak of one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. "

Hmmmm. Could it be the legendary Josephine Baker, toast of the Parisian bistro, what, at heart, actually a café philosopher?