Adam Vaughan
April 17, 2009
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Kensington’s eponymous bike rack will be the latest stylized metal sculpture to grace city sidewalks while serving its outspoken riders. The Royal Ontario Museum installed several posts on Avenue Road, designed to evoke objects in its collection, this summer.
The ROM’s posts were created by Phil Sarazen and Jack Gibney, the same Toronto artists who designed the whimsical bike stands that have popped up in midtown and Parkdale.
In May, the Yonge Lawrence Village Business Improvement Association began installing the first of 16 of the pair’s steel racks on Yonge, north of Lawrence. Mr. Sarazen and Mr. Gibney also guided the clients of a Queen Street drop-in centre as they welded the quirky bike posts for Parkdale.