Farming never looked so glamorous...

Believe it or not, this is the Agriculture Museum in Városliget, Budapest...

Via here

Bathroom Perfection

Totally smitten with this one...

Via Rydeng and Dimore Studio

Mercurial

Via here

Fearless

Via here

Complex

Via here

Sumptuous

The Aman Canale Grande Hotel, Venice, Italy...

See much more at Yatzer

Neglected

Via here (photo by Andre Govia)

Neues Museum, Berlin...

I would hazard a guess that original architect, Friedrich August Stüler, (1800-1865) would approve of the recent restoration of the exquisitely-appointed Neues Museum in Berlin. Extensive bombing during the Second World War left the building in ruins, with entire sections missing completely and others severely damaged. The building was abandoned for decades, and restoration was only decided upon in 1985. British architect, David Chipperfield, is responsible for overseeing the reconstruction of the Neues Museum. A project which extends into 2015...

Before

Before

After

Via here and here

White Mischief

 Via here

Workshop Veilhan

The old and the new...

Via here

Air Desk (and ceiling, light, walls etc.)

The Air Desk (designed by Pinuccio Borgonovo for Gallo and Radice) is made of 12mm tempered and transparent crystal. Utterly gorgeous.

Image via here

Looking up

The Musée des Arts et Métiers (housed in a deconsecrated priory in the 3rd arrondissement) hosts a vast collection of scientific objects and inventions. Among them is this bat-shaped flying machine built in the 1890s by Clément Ader. Via here

Through the Looking Glass (XXXVI)

Via here

Curvatura

Curvatura... Italian for "how soon can I move in?"

 No details on these images, but all via here

It almost turns my head out of joint...

When surfing foreign websites, my most considerate computer politely offers to translate the text into English. I can't resist for sheer entertainment value...

It almost turns my head out of joint when you look at the ceilings of the Tessin Palace. A lavish pictorial world of Baroque is opening up. With the help of skilled restorers have cracks in the color disappeared and ceilings restored.

Lost in translation? Not at all. In fact, I think it just adds to the charm.

But I digress... the following images, showing details of the recently restored ceiling in the Palace of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger in Stockholm, speak for themselves. And, it tickles me that in the translation, the pre-restored condition of the ceiling is termed an 'injury'. It is a rather good credo with respect to rehabilitation, reclamation and preservation...

A piece of the parlor cornice

The Atrium

The Philosopher Diogenes

All images and research from here