B
building babel
Guest
Bite me.
|
|
|
A
adma
Guest
B
building babel
Guest
Tastier than Bob Boback?
B
building babel
Guest
Anyhow, back to the ongoing renovation of the Summer Palace and Tempelhof red: the large bedroom has now been painted and looks suitably bordello-hued. This will be the evening room, furnished in rich and voluptuous shades as befits the aging voluptuary who will use it. The small bedroom, by contrast, is sunny yellow and will be accented with light colours - cream, white and beige. Next, I'm getting the ghastly old hardwood floors ripped up and replaced with unstained red oak. Then the hideous mirrored sliding closet doors in the Tempelhof bedroom get turfed - to be replaced with doors that match the original upstairs doors. And the little back-to-back bedroom closets that became one space when the dividing wall between the bedrooms was removed many years ago will get fitted bookshelves - and become the smallest library in the world. No rest for the wicked.
A
andreapalladio
Guest
Presumably resting isn't the principal purpose of a bedroom the colour of Belle Watlings crushed velvet portiers?
B
building babel
Guest
The true purpose of the Tempelhof red room will become clear in the fullness of time. Some things must be left to evolve, perhaps quite slowly. There can be much enjoyment in watching such mysteries resolve themselves ... or perhaps never do so. For the time being I have no idea, though the Tempelhof closet will certainly be used for clothes. The room will definitely double as a spare bedroom as the need arises. It may act as a cabinet, in the archaic sense, an adjunct to my small sunny yellow bedroom: an antechamber where my retinue of advisers gather when summoned. Or maybe, as you suggest, as a trysting place when I'm in full grande horizontale mode.
The tiny, tiny, tiny interstitial library will be fun to create. It will have floor to ceiling fitted bookshelves along one wall. I may punch a small window through the other wall - it will offer a Rapunzel-like view down into the stairwell, with the stairs leading up from below. I may have a ceiling light installed in the tiny, tiny, tiny library, and design a stained glass window for the hole punched through the wall, so that light from the tiny, tiny tiny library shines through at night and casts a magical Chartres-like glow below. And the light from the skylight above the stairwell will, in turn, illuminate the tiny, tiny, tiny library by day.
The tiny, tiny, tiny interstitial library will be fun to create. It will have floor to ceiling fitted bookshelves along one wall. I may punch a small window through the other wall - it will offer a Rapunzel-like view down into the stairwell, with the stairs leading up from below. I may have a ceiling light installed in the tiny, tiny, tiny library, and design a stained glass window for the hole punched through the wall, so that light from the tiny, tiny tiny library shines through at night and casts a magical Chartres-like glow below. And the light from the skylight above the stairwell will, in turn, illuminate the tiny, tiny, tiny library by day.
E
Ed007Toronto
Guest
Guys you have your own thread for discussions like this. Stop constantly hijacking threads with this nonsense.
A
adma
Guest
Well, at least they didn't go on about their fleshy lampshades...
Anyhoo, take note of the pre-Nazi proto-Tempelhof: Poelzig's IG Farben building in Frankfurt
Anyhoo, take note of the pre-Nazi proto-Tempelhof: Poelzig's IG Farben building in Frankfurt
S
scarberiankhatru
Guest
^ Kind of reminds me of IBM's new software lab in Markham.
A
adma
Guest
In related news...
LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Bryan Ferry apologized on Monday for remarks he made in an interview with a German newspaper in which he praised the Nazis' iconography as "just amazing" and "really beautiful".
The 61-year-old lead singer of Roxy Music told Germany's Welt Am Sonntag newspaper last month: "The way that the Nazis staged themselves and presented themselves, my Lord!
"I'm talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags -- just fantastic. Really beautiful."
In a statement, Ferry said he was "deeply upset" about the negative publicity the interview triggered, and added:
"I apologize unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography, which were solely made from an art history perspective.
"I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent."
Jewish leaders in Britain, some of whom had condemned Ferry's comments and questioned whether he should be dropped by the Marks & Spencer retail chain that employs him as a model, welcomed Ferry's clarification.
"We do welcome the fact that he has issued a swift comment that there was no intention to condone the Nazi regime," said Jeremy Newmark, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council.
Nevertheless, his choice of language was deeply insensitive," he added.
Lord Greville Janner, vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, told Reuters: "His apology was total, appropriate and absolutely necessary. I hope that he will never make the same mistake again."
Marks & Spencer was not immediately available for comment.
Riefenstahl was Adolf Hitler's official film maker who was both admired and condemned for her documentaries that pioneered film techniques but glorified Nazism. Speer was an architect and friend of Hitler's.
B
building babel
Guest
Our Bryan models for Marks and Sparks now? My goodness, how the mighty have fallen!
P
prometheus the supremo
Guest
ya, i'm sure those marching to their death thought it was "beautiful". lets not forget about all the "valuable" medical experiments like sewing two people together - really usefull and relevant research. :rolleyes