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snowce:

Flower-shop, Brussels, designed by Paul Hankar, XIX century

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY DON’T I LIVE HERE
I QUIT

snowce:

Flower-shop, Brussels, designed by Paul Hankar, XIX century

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY DON’T I LIVE HERE

I QUIT

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copperbadge:

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain. Andre Malraux referred to it as “The only diabolical church in the world”. 

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hostofsparrows:

A RARE ART NOUVEAU “BUTTERFLIES AND BATS” POCKETWATCH, BY RENE LALIQUE Of gilt-finished jeweled lever movement, the openface pocketwatch of circular outline with blued-steel moon-style hands and applied black enameled Arabic numerals, against the gold ground accented by blue and white enameled fluttering butterflies, within a polished gold case, the reverse depicting numerous flying purplish blue enameled bats, with scattered moonstone accents, further embellished by a sculpted gold serpent bow, circa 1899-1900, with French export marks.

GODDAMNIT LALIQUE

hostofsparrows:

A RARE ART NOUVEAU “BUTTERFLIES AND BATS” POCKETWATCH, BY RENE LALIQUE 
Of gilt-finished jeweled lever movement, the openface pocketwatch of circular outline with blued-steel moon-style hands and applied black enameled Arabic numerals, against the gold ground accented by blue and white enameled fluttering butterflies, within a polished gold case, the reverse depicting numerous flying purplish blue enameled bats, with scattered moonstone accents, further embellished by a sculpted gold serpent bow, circa 1899-1900, with French export marks.

GODDAMNIT LALIQUE

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enochliew:

Villa Ruggeri by Giuseppe Brega
The villa was completed in 1907 and is situated in Pesaro, Italy.

enochliew:

Villa Ruggeri by Giuseppe Brega

The villa was completed in 1907 and is situated in Pesaro, Italy.

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fyeaheasterneurope:

Built in the 1890s, the Museum of Applied Art in Budapest is an art nouveau-style building designed by the great Hungarian architect Ödön Lechner.

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bobthedino:

bohemian girl by taiyangguodu.

love love love

Jesus, this is beautiful, and I’m just imagining some retrofuturistic dystopia where the ads are animated like Bladerunner but they are like the old posters of 1910s France.

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bobthedino:

bohemian girl by taiyangguodu.

love love love

Jesus, this is beautiful, and I’m just imagining some retrofuturistic dystopia where the ads are animated like Bladerunner but they are like the old posters of 1910s France.

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