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redscharlach

And not a bottom in sight

Sep 16, 2009 00:22

It's the Sharing Is Caring meme, day two, which means a picture. Or in this case, several ( Read more... )

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kazzy_cee September 16 2009, 05:09:05 UTC

Wow - I went to Vienna on a school trip too many years ago, and I don't remember pretty architecture like that! Clearly I was too interesting in the boys and the beer! LOL!

Lovely photos!

redscharlach September 16 2009, 20:05:16 UTC

Vienna is full of pretty things, and it is also full of excellent cakes! I think even the teenage me would have appreciated those, even though the architecture would have passed me by...

san_valentine September 16 2009, 11:50:34 UTC

Nice pics. I never thought of Art Nouveau and Vienna but those are some lovely buildings.

The stained glass window looks like it was designed on a Spirograph.

redscharlach September 16 2009, 20:27:29 UTC

Oh yes, Vienna was a major centre of Art Nouveau (which they called Jugendstil), what with Klimt and all his friends in the Vienna Secession. There are even Art Nouveau public toilets, designed by the appropriately-named Adolf Loos.

heatherbelles September 16 2009, 16:13:59 UTC

OOoh, coolness.

Am going to be in the BM on wednesday, I shall look out for the totem pole.

redscharlach September 16 2009, 20:32:27 UTC

I'm very fond of the Easter Island head they have in there too: it's not in the Great Court but I think it's peering out from one of the adjacent rooms.