Berlin

Pillars

Black and white photograph, 1891, of The Pearl Mosque (Moti Masjid), built by the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r.1628-1658).

Statuesque

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5th Avenue, NYC

picture by UvZ

Observations

The Bridge

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Union Square, NYC

picture by UVZ

Magical

Where is this?

Eternity

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Paris, Pont Alexandre III.1930s

Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler

Serenity

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Hallo Berlin, Frohe Feiertage.... bis bald!

From the editorial: "Ich Bin Eine Berlinerin" by Jean Lariviere

Citizen K February 2003
Photography by Jean Lariviere
Model: Alek Wek

A look into the future that never was....

This is the kind of house men dream about.
The Motorola television ads below ran in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post from 1961 until 1963. These, along with other print ads from the Golden Age of Television can be found in the book Window to the Future by Steve Kosareff. The illustrations posted here are all by Charles Schridde.

My Dream House

Paris Illustrated

Mosaic, Pompeii

Duomo, Milan

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Havana, Cuba ~ The Richard Neutra House, Swiss Ambassadors Residence

The Alfred de Schulthess House, 1956, Cubanacan Playa, Havana, Cuba. 9350 square feet. Raul Alvarez worked as supervising architect; Benno Fischer, Serge Koschin, John Blanton all worked on the architectural design; the noted Brazilian landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx, collaborated on the landscape design of the three-acre property. Now a diplomatic residence for Switzerland. Received the 1958 National College of Architects Gold Medal.