{"product_id":"david-yarrow-every-given-saturday-colour","title":"Every Given Saturday (Colour)","description":"Every Given Saturday\u003cbr\u003eLimited Edition Photography by David Yarrow, for sale at Petra Gut Contemporary gallery in Zurich and St. Moritz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMIDLAND, TEXAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a saloon in Midland, Texas that has formed such a cohesive bond with the oil workers of the Permian Basin that it can get away with simply being called “The Bar”. I don’t think I have ever been to a bar in the world that gives a more emphatic nod to the working community it serves. This is codependency working at a real estate level as opposed to a personal one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, there are bars in lower Manhattan that cater to Wall Street types and bars in northern Massachusetts that cater to commercial fishermen, but I can’t imagine that the decor on show will have the archival breadth that is on offer here. It is a museum to the history of oil in Texas with the occasional nod to the state’s love of sport. This is the hydrocarbon capital of the world and the walls most certainly talk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe recipe for success here is not highbrow or noteworthy; no one is splitting the atom at “The Bar” in terms of culinary refinement or cocktail mixology. But the owners are friendly, the service is quick and big contracts are agreed on handshakes over lunches that cost less than a barrel of oil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf local patrons arrive smelling of Christian Dior, they will leave smelling slightly more of crude oil. There is nowhere Greta Thunberg would less like to spend an afternoon than The Bar, and I suspect that everyone in Midland is delighted about that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike any good bar in Texas, we needed a cowboy and a horse and then some reference to college football. The reach and influence of the University of Texas is palpable everywhere in the state. This august educational establishment is central to what makes Texas so special. Giving a nod to Bevo allowed for another decent prop in the bar.","brand":"David Yarrow","offers":[{"title":"94 x 175 cm (image size) | 132 x 213 cm (framed size)","offer_id":44027277541463,"sku":"DY-PH-Every Given Saturday (Colour)-94 x 175 cm (image size) | 132 x 213 cm (framed size)-AR-SI-N\/A","price":30000.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"140 x 262 cm (image size) | 178 x 300 cm (framed size)","offer_id":44027277574231,"sku":"DY-PH-Every Given Saturday (Colour)-140 x 262 cm (image size) | 178 x 300 cm (framed size)-AR-SI-N\/A","price":37000.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/petragut.com\/products\/david-yarrow-every-given-saturday-colour","provider":"Petra Gut Contemporary AG","version":"1.0","type":"link"}