{"id":72,"date":"2012-05-19T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openproduce.org\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-05-19T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:29:44","slug":"stephen-reynolds-sign-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/19\/stephen-reynolds-sign-painter\/","title":{"rendered":"stephen reynolds: sign painter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<br \/>\nHope you liked our last post. I know I am looking forward to the next post in that series. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post, though, is about the gorgeous gold leaf work sign painter Stephen Reynolds did for us on the front door of Open Produce. <\/p>\n<p>When the window of the front door had to be replaced, we thought it was high time to replace our address numbers, too. (Remember them? The 1+ year-old printer-paper numbers?)<\/p>\n<p>After lots of late-night Googling, I found Stephen Reynolds, a sign painter fluent in a number of methods. He&#8217;s painted all over Chicago, so I am sure you&#8217;ve seen his work before (for example, the lettering of the reading room at the Art Institute), as well as New York and Berlin. You can imagine how excited I was when he agreed to gold leaf our address at a price we could afford. (Not to mention he&#8217;s worked with artist Kay Rosen, whose massive mural, part of Chicago\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Art Loop 2011, adorns the side of a building in the loop.) Gold leaf lettering has been a Chicago tradition since the 1860s, and we worked with Stephen to replicate, with an update, the original gold leaf from a window which lives in our basement. <\/p>\n<p>See below for some action shots and the final result (but really, come see it in person). <\/p>\n<p>See more of Stephen Reynold&#8217;s work at <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenreynolds.net\">stephenreynolds.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of a door we found in the basement, probably from the 1930s:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/openproduce.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1635-old.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Stephen in action:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/openproduce.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1635-painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the beautiful result!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/openproduce.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1635-result.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<br \/>\nHope you liked our last post. I know I am looking forward to the next post in that series. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post, though, is about the gorgeous gold leaf work sign painter Stephen Reynolds did for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openproduce.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}