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They are both lavishly decorated with colorful tiles, sculpture and wrought iron. One house, at 40 Linke Wienzeile, has a facade covered with majolica, or glazed earthenware tiles in floral designs, is popularly known as the Majolica House. The second, at 38 Linke Wienzeile, is called the Medallion House, for the bronze medallions on the facade.
Interior architecture is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed. It can refer to the initial design and plan used for a building's interior, to that interior's later redesign made to accommodate a changed purpose, or to the significant revision of an original ...
Here a tall painting by Anne Harris pairs with a polychrome parcil gilt bureau cabinet to create an an inviting Italianate writing corner in Charlotte Moss's 1920s Tudor in Houston. Trevor Tondro ...
The choice of paint color on the walls in Victorian homes was said to be based on the use of the room. Hallways that were in the entry hall and the stair halls were painted a somber gray so as not to compete with the surrounding rooms. Most people marbleized the walls or the woodwork.
The Looshaus was a pioneering reinforced concrete building in Vienna; this form of construction made possible large interior spaces and rational grouping of the manufacturing and sales areas, and Loos also used varied ceiling heights to save space. The street-level salesroom was divided by four interior columns into distinct areas, and had oval ...
The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
The Miles Brewton House is a National Historic Landmark residential complex located in Charleston, South Carolina.It is one of the finest examples of a double house (a reference to the arrangement of four main rooms per floor, separated by a central stair hall) in Charleston, designed on principles articulated by Andrea Palladio.
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