Escaliers Prunelle
Checkerboard-painted stairway, its jacquard pattern hand-filled by around a hundred neighborhood volunteers.
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This guide to Escaliers Prunelle in Lyon follows Genaro Lopez, a former graffiti artist who in September 2015 talked the mayor's office of the first arrondissement into handing a plain concrete staircase to about a hundred strangers recruited off flyers around Croix-Rousse. You'll hear why he chose the jacquard checkerboard pattern, named for local weaver Joseph-Marie Jacquard, before a single volunteer picked up a brush. It covers the two weekends of painting, the two thousand two hundred euro budget and the donated enamel that crept down toward rue Prunelle. Look down at the tilted squares underfoot as you climb.
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