the building you keep seeing behind Zelensky is the House with Chimeras , 1902 [LOOK AT THIS!!]

[IcyPeas]

the building you keep seeing behind Zelenskiy is fucking insane, btw. it's called the House with Chimeras and it's just an inexplicable surrealist nouveau mansion that happens to be right opposite the President's office. the entablature has rhinos. Władysław Horodecki, 1902.

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Fucking insane is right! That's incredible!

[SheltieLover]

2. Wow!

Does someone live in that?

[Glorfindel]

3. That's really quite wonderful, IcyPeas.

Thanks for sharing.

[electric_blue68]

4. I see frogs up at the top. 😄

[IcyPeas]

6. more pictures in this article. also some pictures of the interior

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/house-with-chimaeras/

The theme of wildlife continued inside the house. High reliefs, stucco work, and sculptures decorate the ceilings, walls and stairs, all now preserved in their original form (although, of course, they have been restored). It is noteworthy that outside the building all the depicted creatures are alive, and those inside – dead. This is down to Horodetskyi himself. He was an avid hunter, and while others were not always pleased to see the carcasses and skulls of game, the architect himself enjoyed it.

[electric_blue68]

11. That was how you say....

wild. 😄😉

Some interesting floral motifs.
Esp the green and painted yellow ones.


Now I have to look at that stained glass article. 👍
Ty.

[gademocrat7]

5. Wow

That is an amazing building.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. They don't make them like that any more, do they?

[electric_blue68]

8. I guess not... 😄

[ChazII]

9. Sadly, no. n/t

[ornotna]

10. Pretty cool building

Some history and interior shots at this link.

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/house-with-chimaeras/

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Saw it in 2018.

[crickets]

13. I love this! It's beautiful. Weird, but beautiful. nt

[blogslug]

14. Made mostly from cement!

Very cool.