Sitting here a little too much these days but yes old age.
Posts tonen met het label interior. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label interior. Alle posts tonen
dinsdag 2 juli 2024
dinsdag 19 april 2022
We still have to get used to it.
Just walking in like here at "het Hert" in Naarden for lunch because it can be done again.
dinsdag 15 februari 2022
Classification
A friend of mine likes to color coordinate the books on her bookshelf. One for Our World Tuesday here.
zondag 27 september 2020
zaterdag 7 december 2019
maandag 15 januari 2018
If you don't have much money you have to be smart.
Mural in a start up for young fashion designers. One for Monday Murals here.
maandag 8 januari 2018
Wall of photo's
Under the train viaduct in the "Planciusstraat" you find photo's from what I think are former interiors of demolished housing in the neighborhood to make place for new buildings. Can't find an explanation on internet. One for Monday Murals here.
zaterdag 6 juni 2015
zaterdag 2 augustus 2014
Hotel lobby
If the lobby of your hotel gives such an opportunity you can't pass it as here in the Harlequin hotel in Castlebar Ireland.
Another lobby shot.
Selfie with Bieb at the second floor at the end of the staircase. If you are tired from the stairs you could take place here before going to your room or of course take the elevator from ground to two. One for weekend reflections here.
zaterdag 7 juni 2014
Oops, polished again.
Due to some recent festivities of our royals in the new church in amsterdam the candelabras are polished to a blinding new look.
We went there for the world press photo exhibition but it is difficult to resist such splendor. The above one is of course a crop from this one.
For more reflections go to weekend reflections here.
zaterdag 31 mei 2014
woensdag 30 april 2014
Bauhaus visit 2
Extra attention deserves also the lightning of the spaces as here in the room of Walter Gropius.
Making use of the just invented glow lamp this design of student Max Krajewski used the electrical tubing also as construction material for the lighting in a very thin and clear constructional way. Its unsurpassed even until this day. He called it Soffitten lampen. In the other buildings of the Bauhaus in Dessau you find more of this lamps and armatures.
The staircases had special art ornaments made by students. All destroyed as entartete kunst but thanks to some remaining photographs recovered as this one from which I don't know the students name.
On the second floor you'd find this sign in the typical bauhaus colors and lettering made by graphical student Herbert Bayer, a pupil of Wassily Kandinsky. Biebkriebels show some more photo's of our visit here.
woensdag 9 april 2014
Automatic adoption of contrast ?
Sunlight falling through a 17th century window in the Portuguese Synagog Amsterdam.
Its a pity that blogger makes the picture lighter so that the original dark, light contrast is a bit blown away. On my original the white of the wall was not showing. Tried different solutions but until now without succes.
dinsdag 8 april 2014
donderdag 19 september 2013
Autumn harvest
I was wondering about all the fruit in the kitchen and laid some on the table. Nice one to go thinking about some real still lives.
woensdag 18 september 2013
Van Brienen house 2
When you enter the house to the front door you see the little stairs in the end. That also is the border between the front house and the back house. Behind the doors in the back is the main reception room. The doors in front on the left are there just for the effect. They have no function otherwise.
Looking through the door you see the living room from the family who lives here . This style is Louis XVI (1782).
Standing on the little marble stairs from the first picture looking in the courtyard you are seeing this wall decoration original from 1728. The 2 doors are secret toilets from that period. A brick layered sewer gave direct access to the "Herengracht" canal in front and until the sixties of the 20th century the canal houses watered directly on the canals in front with their sewage.
In the garden you have a nice view of the garden house that nearly every canal house has for placing apart their piece of ground from the land on the other side and to impress visitors. Also a lot of house owners were rich jews who used their garden house for the feast of Tabernacles ( Sukkot ).
Leaving again through the servant entrance in the cellar but still marble and tiles. Yes they made a lot of money in amsterdam in those times.
dinsdag 17 september 2013
Visiting v. Brienen house
It was very crowded this weekend to visit the monuments in Amsterdam but after some minutes in a line there was movement. Now you could look into houses that are closed the rest of the year. Here we are going to visit the van Brienen House on the Herengracht. Build in 1620 by the widow of Hans van Wely ( a famous jeweler of that time) who had bought the ground in 1614. In 1728 the house came in the hands of David Rutgers and his 2 sisters and the interior in the style of Louis XIV is from this time and still mostly intact. It is considered one of the 100 most important interiors in the Netherlands.
Here you are looking on the inner court from the front house to the back house
Part of the great reception room with an arcadic landscape as wall painting all around.
Also the servant rooms still exists.
woensdag 28 augustus 2013
Some Norwegian interiors
This lady was so kindly to point out the finer details of the interiors of some wooden houses collected in the Maihaugen open air museum dressed in her national costume..
Not much windows so it is often a bit dark inside. Now think when it is winter and dark outside.
The details of the woodwork are really amazing if you remember there where no electrical tools and everything was pure handcraft.
Here the ceiling is very special and look at that chair. It was an other society in those days. Of course we are better of today but for these skills I doubt it.
woensdag 17 juli 2013
On the attic
On the attic of castle Groeneveld you find some rooms coming from the dollhouse made by Karina Schaapman called the mouse house . Here they are on true scale and for children of all ages a joy to explore.
The room of the music student.
Reading corner. It is a comfy experience to look at this expo.
dinsdag 18 december 2012
A cozy corner
Just a place to drink some coffee with your friends . I like the furniture, the color and the used look after years of use. In reality this is a display in a museum of a famous café in the Hague where young artists were meeting in the fifties and sixties. In my memory it was the Post-horn but I am not sure of it.
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