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Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Santa Maria Formosa, Venice: the entrance area with stone mosaic pavement seen from the entry doors
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NOTES: This 16th century Venetian palazzo housed the library and the art collection left to the public by Count Giovanni Querini Stampalia in 1869. Carlo Scarpa's remodelling of the ground floor and the garden in 1961-1963, included the removal of extraneous 19th century additions, the repositioning of the entrances, the recovery of the original space of the 'portego' (water entrance from the canal) and the layout of the garden.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Santa Maria Formosa, Venice: the entrance area with stone mosaic pavement seen from the entry doors
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NOTES: This 16th century Venetian palazzo housed the library and the art collection left to the public by Count Giovanni Querini Stampalia in 1869. Carlo Scarpa's remodelling of the ground floor and the garden in 1961-1963, included the removal of extraneous 19th century additions, the repositioning of the entrances, the recovery of the original space of the 'portego' (water entrance from the canal) and the layout of the garden.
Designs for the London, Edinburgh & Glasgow Assurance Company Limited head office, Euston Square, London: plan of the mosaic floor in the entrance hall
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NOTES: Pite designed the original building from 1906 with several later extensions. The mosaic floor shown in this design incorporates the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Designs for the London, Edinburgh & Glasgow Assurance Company Limited head office, Euston Square, London: plan of the mosaic floor in the entrance hall
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NOTES: Pite designed the original building from 1906 with several later extensions. The mosaic floor shown in this design incorporates the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Designs for the London, Edinburgh & Glasgow Assurance Company Limited head office, Euston Square, London: details of the mosaic floor in the entrance hall
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NOTES: Pite designed the original building from 1906 with several later extensions. The mosaic floor shown in this design incorporates the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester: the Victorian Hall with Roman mosaics inlaid in the floor
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NOTES: This museum was founded in 1846 but moved to a new purpose-built building in 1884 designed by Crickmay & Son of Weymouth.
Dorset County Museum extension, High West Street, Dorchester: the new extension seen from the Victorian Hall
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NOTES: This museum was founded in 1846 but moved to a new purpose-built building in 1884 designed by Crickmay & Son of Weymouth. It was extended at the rear by Michael Brawne & Associates in 1974.
San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
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NOTES: The church, which is the cathedral of Rome, was rebuilt by Borromini in 1646-1649. The principal or east front was added by Galilei in 1734-1736.
Old England department store, Rue Montagne de la Cour, Brussels: base of one of the cast iron columns in the entrance hall
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NOTES: The department store was converted into the Musee des Instruments de Musique in 2000.
Halifax Town Hall, West Yorkshire: the Victoria Hall
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NOTES: This hall is daylit by a twelve-sectioned blue and green glass ceiling, surrounded by yellow painted glass coving.
15 Vale Avenue (now The Vale), Chelsea, London: the hall
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NOTES: The house was built for the American artist Ethel Sands in 1914. The mosaic decoration in the hall was Boris Anrep's first major commission (1917). Sands commissioned her friend Walter Sickert to decorate her dining room but this commission was never fulfilled and eventually Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the room.