Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Porsche design on a Montreal street

Follow the curves
Montreal, QC
September 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Design is a funny thing. Most of the time it lurks in the shadows, quietly ignored by most of us as we go through the paces of living life.

But every once in a while, in between the heres and the theres, design will reach out from wherever it happens to be and gently tap us on the soul.

And so this Porsche 911 whispered in my direction as I walked along a busy Sherbrooke Street in downtown Montreal in search of takeout lunch for my lovely wife. We were here for a family wedding, and I soon found myself walking the familiar neighbourhood with a camera.

I was trying to cross the street when I spotted it parked near our hotel. And all I could do was stand there, transfixed, on the sidewalk and take in the complex curves of a vehicle whose mission has little to do with Costco runs or carpool pickups.

The first 911 hit the road in 1964, and its design roots stretch back even further. That the same fundamental recipe has been lovingly massaged for 60 years and remains an icon of sports car design is, frankly, unheard of. I admire the company’s ability to simultaneously touch the future and respect the past - without compromise.

As a subset of the design craft, automotive design exists everywhere we happen to be, with rolling examples of art showing up on streets and driveways and passing by when we least expect them. It’s one of the most democratic forms of design, because it isn’t stuck inside.

I had to shoot fast, because as I brought the lens up and started to compose, I could hear the engine fire up. Sure enough, I got off one shot before the driver pulled into traffic and disappeared, the brief encounter seared into my brain as I put the camera away and looked for takeout nearby.

Because we can look at beauty all we wish, but sooner or later we’ve all got to eat.

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