Showing posts with label Stockholm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stockholm. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Ett Hem Hotel
British interior designer, Ilse Crawford of Studioilse, and Swedish owner, Jeanette Mix, have recently renovated a former 1910 Swedish residence (originally designed by architect Fredrik Dahlberg), converting it into a beautiful hotel, (which feels more like a private luxury home than a place of public perambulation)...
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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...
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...
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