{"id":3818,"date":"2016-02-12T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/int.design\/projets\/banc-nana-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-05T23:55:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T03:55:32","slug":"banc-nana-2","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/int.design\/en\/projects\/banc-nana-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Banc-nana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the bustling, popular square just in front of the Mont-Royal metro station, you\u2019ll find the Banc-nana, a seating installation in the form of two giant bananas and one banana peel.  More than just a theatrical installation, this zany yet functional sculpture not only provides people with a place to relax but gets them talking, too. <\/p>\n<p>These banana benches arouse immediate enthusiasm in bystanders, residents and tourists of all ages and likes. This Pop Art-inspired installation presented a number of technical challenges. Though an easy-to-build structure made of epoxy-painted Baltic birch plywood, which could be arranged to create the shape of the fruit, it had to both be weather resistant and conform to the requirements of a public space.  <\/p>\n<p>Mandated by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de d\u00e9veloppement de l\u2019avenue du Mont-Royal and Odace \u00c9v\u00e9nements, Banc-Nana is a superb union of art object and interactive, comfortable and tactile urban furniture, which can\u2019t help but elicit peals of laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3818","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banc-nana - INT Design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/int.design\/en\/projects\/banc-nana-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banc-nana - INT Design\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the bustling, popular square just in front of the Mont-Royal metro station, you\u2019ll find the Banc-nana, a seating installation in the form of two giant bananas and one banana peel. 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