Prahran Exteriors which Fascinate Me

Love and Lewis on Cato/Chapel streets. The first time I noticed this building was when I was at a yoga class in a first floor studio nearby. I turned towards the window to do some crazy stretch or other and was hit, smack bang in the face with the word 'LOVE'. After the class I ran down the stairs and into the street to find the building.

I can't help but wonder what goes on in this massive building (I don't know what it's called) that sits above JB Hi-Fi on Chapel Street. Whenever I look at it, I think of Great Expectations and have flights of fancy where I see Miss Havisham drifting around a ballroom covered in cobwebs.

Yet when I see the balcony, with its cacti, palm trees and lanterns I imagine it as a residence for a collective of artists, musicians and performers. As my mind continues to wander, I like to pretend that it's a recording studio of some sort where, late at night, people gather on the balcony and play bongos and strum guitars while red-wine-fuzzy-drunk and bathed in warm yellow candlelight.

It probably just houses offices.

Mood: Phil Collins singing In the Air Tonight and cinnamon doughnuts