chapter · glass and gilt
Glass and Gilt, on the sheet.
two entries · Bucharest · Sibiu
Two houses where the inside is the commission: a marble colonnade that a French architect threw up in twelve months in 1914, and a Baroque bay over a Sibiu lane that has been answering for its own plaster since 1895. Both are entered for the corridors, not the fronts.
Bucharest · Episcopiei corner
Athenée Palace
Marble, chandeliers and a bar where two wars were overheard; 1914 from one drawing board.
Sibiu · lower town edge
Împăratul Romanilor
Kept since 1555; Joseph II slept here in 1783 and the house was rebuilt in 1895.