The Handwerkervereinshaus is a brick building complex in Berlin.
The elaborately designed double portal is decorated with coloured terracottas and vaulted in the shape of a barrel, bears the brick inscription ‘Berliner Handwerker Verein’ above the green and white decoration, and a medallion with a symbolic handshake above the central supporting column.
Window sculpture on the Bodenstrasse facade of The Neues Museum in Berlin
This is a publicity photo for the production start-up for the Mercedes 300 SEL (W109) passenger car at the Sindelfingen plant in March 1966. The 300 SEL differs from the SE (W108) by its standard air suspension and a 100 mm longer wheelbase.
The feeling of perfection is further emphasized by Germany’s flagship airline, Lufthansa and the brand new Boeing 727-100 aircraft which was registered in June 1964. Lufthansa was the third customer to order and the first in Europe. This specific aircraft (D-ABIH, Wiesbaden) was returned to Boeing in May 1975, with over 24,000 flight hours.
The limestone facade of the baroque church of St. Catherine in Valletta, Malta, adjacent to an Augustinian nunnery
Léa Seydoux as gardienne Simone on a poster of ‘The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun’ (2021) a film by Wes Anderson
A handsome lead (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who can actually act, a beautiful woman (Françoise Dorléac, sister to Catherine Deneuve) who is pretty much crazy, and a villain (Jean Servais) who is charming in Philippe de Broca’s […]
Wassily Kandinsky’s stage set for Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ at the Friedrich Theater, Dessau, on 4 April, 1928. ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ is a suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied […]
The eastern terminus of the Budapest Metro Line M2 at the intersection of Feher and Kerepesi roads shortly after the opening of the inaugural section of the line in 1970. The surface station has a […]
The Volvo 240 became a symbol of Scandinavian values. The safe, the sound, the commonplace. Square and homely, yet solid and reliable. No frills, just function over form. Taking you from A to Z. The […]
Left paradrop door of the Kawasaki C-2 mid-size, twin-turbofan engine, long range, high speed military transport aircraft developed and manufactured by Kawasaki Aerospace Company. The plane is deployed by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). […]
Budapest, Hungary photographed at night from the International Space Station. Amid the lights of the capital city is the dark string of the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river. Budapest’s metropolitan area spans 525 square km and […]
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Bridge was used for electric trains from 1895 until 1958. This was the only 4 track bridge in Chicago’s history. Most sites seem to call it a Jackknife bridge for […]
A Japanese Girl (1918) by Jacob Kramer (1892 – 1962), Ukrainian-born painter who spent all of his working life in England.
Tokyo’s Shibuya station with the Hachiko statue in the late 1930s. The small bronze Hachiko statue may not appear particularly impressive however, it is still Shibuya’s main meeting point. The original statue sculpted by Teru […]
Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 1956 Academy Awards. They both won the Best Actress Award in previous years. Audrey Hepburn won for ‘Roman Holiday’ in 1953 while Grace Kelly won for ‘The […]
Marilyn Monroe with Norman Rosten and his friends | Long Island, 1955 Poet Norman Rosten and his wife, Hedda, accompanied Marilyn Monroe the last seven years of her life. In fact, as time went on […]
The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 were manufactured from 1961 to 1967. They were essentially identical except for their engine displacement, as indicated by their model names. They were available as a saloon and station […]
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