Eiger Swiss Restaurant

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 58mm · f/9.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Eiger Swiss Restaurant on Parramatta Road, photographed after dark. Painted white render and a row of 3 arched ground-floor windows mark the facade, with a single round pendant light above the arched entrance. The restaurant's website address runs across a sign on the upper storey, horizontal slat blinds cover the middle-level windows, and 3 gold-framed decorative panels sit at the top of the building.

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In situ

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Eiger Swiss Restaurant
Series: Parramatta Road
Catalogue: PRO-019
Process: Giclée
Captured: 5 September 2016
Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 58 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The Eiger Swiss Restaurant sits on Parramatta Road behind painted white render and a row of three arched ground-floor windows, photographed after dark on 5 September 2016. A single round pendant light hangs above the arched entrance. The restaurant's website address runs across a sign on the upper storey, horizontal slat blinds cover the middle-level windows, and three gold-framed decorative panels sit at the top of the building.

Hospitality is among the trades that have held their ground on Parramatta Road while retail emptied out around them. The corridor runs 23 kilometres and passes through every kind of Sydney frontage, and a restaurant on it has always depended on the road bringing people past rather than on anyone choosing to walk there. The widening of the 1920s and 1930s made the footpath narrow and the traffic loud, which suited a business that wanted to be recognised at speed and did not much need a pleasant approach. The arched windows and the gold panels are doing that work, and they are pitched at a driver rather than a pedestrian. At night, with the traffic reduced to headlights, the facade reads the way it was designed to.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The Eiger Swiss Restaurant on Parramatta Road, photographed after dark.

Brett Patman

The series

Parramatta Road

2017 · 27 photographs

Parramatta Road follows a much older route, used for thousands of years by the Wangal, Wallumedegal, Burramattagal, and Cadigal peoples before colonial adoption around 1789 to 1791. Today it is one of Sydney's main thoroughfares: 23 km of heavy traffic, with used car dealers at the Parramatta end ("Auto Alley") and a mix of historic shopfronts, new apartment blocks, and WestConnex demolition at the eastern end. The series moves between streetscape and individual buildings - 107 Parramatta Road in Annandale (an 1890s Victorian Filigree shopfront with original living quarters above accessible only by ladder), the Marco Polo Motel at Summer Hill, the Olympia Milk Bar in Stanmore, Mario's Meat Market, and shopfronts whose ground floors have been busy for a century while the rooms above have been empty for fifty years.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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