furniture – Ruth E. Hendricks

Will anyone be joining you?

August 29, 2025 by Ruth Categories: furniture, PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, chair, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, seating 7 Comments

It’s Been a While

Tuesday morning on the way to breakfast with my friend Vincie, spotted this couch on the curb. I pulled over in the next block, got out and took the photo.

She asked me what’s with the attraction of photographing the abandoned furniture? These discards?

It’s hard to explain in words but I can tell you they make me feel something.

I think if the furniture could speak, there would be many stories.

I realize they are inanimate objects, unwanted and worn out.

They can’t speak so I have to use my imagination of what they have seen and endured.

Pittsburgh and Columbus have the most couches at the curbs. Chairs, too.

August 21, 2025 by Ruth Categories: furniture, PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, city scene, couch, curb, garbage, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, summer 6 Comments

I’d met a friend for breakfast at The Oaklander Hotel. On my way home I was talking to another friend (hands free) and I said Whoa, I have to pull over, get out of my car and photograph the first abandoned furniture of the new year.

It was exciting.

January 1, 2025 by Ruth Categories: furniture, PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, chair, city scene, neighborhood, New Years’s Day, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, Shadyside 11 Comments

NYC, Ohio and Pittsburgh

The abandoned furniture curbside collection added to by my sister, my daughter and me.

Mary sent this pic from Bleecker and Grove Streets Greenwich Village NYC

Laura sent the recliner pic from Clintonville Ohio

Swissvale enroute to Braddock. The chair was gone on my way home

April 10, 2024April 10, 2024 by Ruth Categories: furniture, PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, Chairs, Columbus OH, discarded furniture, family, garbage, Greenwich Village, guest blog, neighborhood, photography, postaday, Swissvale, travel 17 Comments

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