Tagged With "Decorations"

A glittering new gallery in Berlin, just off Karl-Marx-Allee, is taking a new look at mid-century design in the former German Democratic Republic, along with contemporary design from elsewhere in the East bloc and the west.   East German (and...

As if Hello Kitty and Tintin weren't enough for the special-theme plane market, Etihad and Universal Pictures have teamed up to tart up an Etihad 777 with Fast and Furious 7 logos as the new film (partly shot in Etihad's home, Abu Dhabi) is released....

Many people walk up and down 5th Ave. past Rockefeller Center. They look in the windows. They at the garden and at the Prometheus statue. I am not sure how many people look up at the buildings to see the decorative work built there. Originally the building and even the entrances were given different themes, and were decorated accordingly.

DrFumblefinger enjoyed a nice lunch at Croque Madame Café, which is part of the Decorative Arts Museum in Buenos Aires.

Restored buildings and costumed townspeople give you the opportunity to feel as if you have stepped back into the 18th century in Williamsburg.

I did find the Communist Eastern European architecture and decor very bland at the time but people made the most of what they had .I was impressed how people kept items working.

Everywhere I go I look up to see the real architecture of a building. But why is The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom displayed on 5th Avenue ?

Several of the original 14 Rockefeller Center buildings, mainly the ones facing Fifth Avenue, were to be the 'international buildings,' each named for a European country, and each intended to attract commercial and government tenants from that country, and decorated with matching art. The British Empire Building is across a promenade called Channel Gardens from La Maison Francaise; the next building up is the Palazzo d'Italia. The next two, International Building and International Building...

Thanks Paul - very interesting. Wouldn't it be wonderful if those magnificent buildings had a brief description of their history on the outside. Like the American Eagle with the Stars and Stripes carved into the sand stone facia in Church St in Liverpool !

Great piece! For years I've heard the advice don't look up or you'll look like a tourist. They just don't realize what they are missing!

I haven't been to Williamsburg in decades. Your photo essay makes me want to return! Very nice piece!!

Thank you Marilyn. Hope you make it soon. I look forward to our next visit, too.

Travel Rob visits a very small but beautiful community in New Brunswick.

Samantha, her husband and family friends spent some time exploring the Phoenix Zoo Lights. It is a 30-year holiday tradition in Phoenix.

DrFumblefinger shares some holiday winter scenes from Winter Park, Florida.

DrFumblefinger shares photos of a home in a small Montana town, which was elaborately decorated for Halloween.

A few photos of Holiday decorations to share with you this Christmas Day.