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Red Chair

Red Chair

This room seemed to serve as a "practice home", where patients would learn how to function in everyday life in a living room type setting.
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Obviously it didn't go over to well
Radar
Mon 08-22-2005
The shock of color really catches one off
guard.
Tina J.
Tue 08-23-2005
LOL Radar
KittyKat
Sat 09-24-2005
Love the way the red chair stands out.
Andy
Mon 02-06-2006
It's like stepping into a time capsule house from the 40's- 50's.....after a bomb went off. lol.

Actually, I have seen many an apartment with a sink JUST like that one. Love the red chair, gotta be my fav on opacity hands down!
weasel
Tue 03-14-2006
With all the different types of chairs in this shot, Maybe Motts caught the tail end of a "lonley chair singles mixer" All the chairs got drunk and are passed out laying on the floor!
SandyY
Tue 04-25-2006
isn't red the color of ANGER! did you really want to piss these people off MORE!!!

Would love this chair for my living room though
Joe
Fri 05-05-2006
i agree with Joe, thats a great chair to go to waste, but yet we must let it remain in its final resting home...
looks like my bedroom!
i like this pic mucho mas!
cory
Thu 05-25-2006
The chair that is upsidedown on the table behind the red chair is an Eames chair. If it is in good condition it's worth a few hundred bucks.
Gezal
Wed 05-31-2006
Clearly needed more practice.
Felyne
Thu 09-14-2006
Just curious-- how do you know it was a practice room and not a doctor's or nurse's living quarters?
VaUrbanExploring.com
Fri 04-06-2007
Well, I usually don't know anything for sure about the locations I visit, a lot is assumption because I've never seen these places while in operation.

I deduced the room's function by it's location; it was near the recreation hall, theater, and what looked like an art workshop / classroom, and there were also flash cards laying around with an illustration of various objects with the name underneath undefined"fork", "tablecloth", etc). I've seen similar setups at other developmental centers such as Pennhurst as well.
Motts
Mon 04-09-2007
I've been in and worked in a few of these places and I think your assumption is probably accurate Motts.

Here's the thing about the abandoned stuff...if you work in such a place and they close it down, it ain't yours to take and even if you know it will just go to waste due to government regs about not using old stuff in the new facility-or maybe there is no new facility, if you take it and get caught you're labeled a thief. Most of the stuff was probably pretty worn anyway or somebody would've risked taking it. A shame really.
Scout
Sat 04-21-2007
Wonderful picture, I love the startling contrast.
CaptainHowdy
Thu 07-12-2007
Oh how the mighty chairs have fallen to the wayside.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

1:08 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007
Joseph
Fri 07-27-2007
Really nice contrast. The chair would look stunning against a B&W background.
Heather
Sat 10-06-2007
bright red chair against so much bland decay
jensmiles
Mon 11-12-2007
right on Andy
Stephen21
Sat 11-17-2007
They have "practice" mini apartments in many rehab facilities (I'm only familiar with the ones where physical rehab takes place). It helps people get used to everyday living from their new perspective (many times from a wheelchair)
AvalonSeeker
Sun 01-27-2008
That is a nice chair. I imagine that these kinds of rooms are helpful to people who just need a little help.
Jeanette
Tue 02-05-2008
I've fallen and I can't get up........maybe it's time I take a little break!!!!!! Great color contrast....
Amazed
Wed 02-20-2008
omg.. you know what all this is making me think of? Bioshock.. like.. in Rapture? uhhhhh creepy, with all the old furniture.. and broken stuff... I can't get enough of it!
Eboni
Tue 05-20-2008
Lol. So much for home sweet home. My house has ended up looking like that on several occasions. Does this mean I need psychiatric intervention or just a new group of friends who don't trash the place?
Sylvia
Thu 05-22-2008
I love the way the color drains out from the left side of the photo to the right.
v.o.s
Sat 10-11-2008
That chair looks wicked.
Malice.
Mon 04-13-2009
i agree about the colors
Ducky
Tue 05-26-2009
The red chair actually looks really nice. Looks like something you can buy today out of Ethan Allen.
KWG2005
Fri 06-19-2009
Love the red chair!
Little B
Sun 12-27-2009
that looks llike it was vandalized
Merc24
Wed 03-24-2010
The floor looks a little squishy
eldokid@aol.com
Thu 03-25-2010
the chairs aren't lonely anymore! :]
and the contrast is amazing
addy
Tue 12-07-2010
That chair has potential... my father-in-law reupholsters and fixes chairs, he could have that thing as good as new in a couple weeks
fatepeace121006
Fri 12-30-2011

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