Just an occasional library loan of a book on Dutch furniture happened to contain an image of an thus-far unknown strycsitten. More su...

Writing about making pattens was quite out-of-place at the moment I started working on this post. Last week, it was very hot in the Netherl...

Again a post on Kloster Isenhagen at the southern Luneburger moor in Germany ... and some more treasures of this convent will follow. Ther...

Eugene Viollet le Duc (1814-1879) was a renowned architect from the 19th century, famous for his restoration work on the cathedrals of Rhei...