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: Brooks’ TEAM PRO Alpe d’Huez
By: g | No Comments » |
Fancy some embossed leather under your pert (or not so as the case usually is) cycling backside?
Then then this might be the thing for you. A special edition Alpe d’Huez saddle designed by Brooklyn based artist Dan Funderburgh.
Lifting the copy right from under Brooks’ nose:
“Alpe d’Huez is one of the main climbs and has been a stage finish in the Tour de France almost every year since 1976. The first was in 1952, won by Fausto Coppi, at a time when most cyclists were riding Brooks Saddles.
The pattern of the Alpe d’Huez impressed on this saddle has been designed by Dan Funderburgh, a wallpaper designer and artist in Brooklyn, NY. His patterns, prints and installations are varied in content but all demonstrate an unabashed love for decorative arts.
With influences ranging from Moorish mosaic to American op art, the work is a repudiation of the fabricated schism between art and decoration. Some of Dan’s work can be found in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and the Miami Museum of Modern Art. Dan loves bicycles and has created wallpaper patterns with bicycle parts.”
Feeling the love? Yes? Then part with your hard earned coin here: brookssaddles.com
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