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OVERDOOR ENGLISH TRELLIS I

   A lovely curved, wrought iron trellis to hang over a window or door for that    little extra bit of adornment. Available at NeimanMarcus.com

Color Splash Concrete Garden Table

Gorgeous, textured concrete garden table, inlaid with hand-cast glass, and accented with stones, marbles, and shells. Beautiful inside or out, but I like it for the garden. By  Terence S. Dubreuil, and available at Artful Home.

Versailles: the Hall of Mirrors

The Hall of Mirrors at the Versailles Palace is 239 feet long, 34 feet wide and 40 feet high. The seventeen windows that overlook the gardens, are echoed by seventeen arcaded mirrors along the wall. Click to enlarge. Truly breathtaking.

Verdant Architecture

The California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano.  "Capped by a stupendous floating green roof of undulating mounds of plants, it embodies the academy’s philosophy that humanity is only one part of an endlessly complex universal system."
More images.

Images: Tim Griffith/New York Times

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Beauty of Straight Lines

I am not usually a fan of design which incorporates primarily straight lines/rectangles-squares. But, this home in Newport Beach, California, just works, in part because the foliage offsets the austerity of the straight lines. Love it.

Image source: LA Times 

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The Palace Hotel, San Francisco

The Garden Court, famous for it's fifty, immense, Waterford crystal and gold Chandeliers, as well as the enormous, domed glass ceiling.

The ceiling of The Garden Court. The ceiling is one enormous skylight. At night, the beauty is almost surreal.

Another image depicting a detail in The Garden Court

The Palace Hotel in San Francisco was originally built in 1875. It is one of the most luxurious hotels in the world, with the charm of old world elegance. Located in the shopping district downtown, on New Montgomery Street.

Images courtesy of The Palace Hotel. 

Design Files Note: This is part 1 of a 3 part series on this hotel. I have images which I took when a guest there, and I am hoping to post those as well (if I can find them).

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Pattern: Technicolor Bloom

Technicolor Bloom. The interactive image on a website. The first image is what you see when you first land on the site. As you move your mouse over the image, it shifts and changes, much like a kaleidoscope, thus the two images that follow the first. Very intriguing and beautiful. Even more intriguing is the architectural installation created from plywood and acrylic sheets. A design and engineering marvel. Amazing.    

Images are screenshots from the site, Technicolor Bloom

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