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Glasgow: 150 years of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Posted on November 15, 2018 by Toothpicker
The first stop of my three-week trip in Scotland this summer was Glasgow. Although the city is not as glamourous as Edinburgh, I tend to have a bias towards Glasgow, partly because of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and partly because of its friendly residents.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of [...]
This post was posted in Food & dining, Exhibitions, Architecture, British designs, Travel, Architectural conservation, Designers & artists, Design, Glasgow, British heritage, Scotland and was tagged with architecture, British design, heritage, Scotland, art nouveau architecture, Glasgow, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, arts & crafts movements, Scottish design, The Glasgow art club, Mackintosh at The Willow
The doors of Paris
Posted on September 18, 2017 by Toothpicker
Top: Petit Palais' Beaux-art façade designed by Charles Girault
This post is dedicated to all the beautiful, magnificent, elegant, quirky, stylish, and unconventional doors in Paris. If you haven't noticed the doors in Paris, then start looking when you are in the city next time. Here is a collection that I [...]
This post was posted in Architecture, Photography, Travel, Paris, Modernist & Art Deco, Street life and was tagged with architecture, paris, art deco architecture, art nouveau architecture, doors
Lisbon's art deco & art nouveau architecture
Posted on March 5, 2015 by Toothpicker
Interior of Cais do Sodre station
Lisbon has a fantastic variety of architecture from different periods, including one of my favourites: Art Deco.
I was quite pleasantly surprised when I arrived at Lisbon's Cais do Sodre station to catch a train towards Cascais. Opened in 1928 and designed by Pedro Botelho and Nuno Teotónio Pereira [...]
This post was posted in Architecture, Travel, Modernist & Art Deco, Portugal, Lisbon and was tagged with art deco architecture, Portugal, Lisbon, art nouveau architecture
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