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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2010 17:52:01 GMT
Wow, that second one of yours in #27 is really something, with a delicate Iberian/Moorish feel to it, BJD. Check out the 4th photo down in my post #18 above. Not as daintily wrought, but you can see they were still informed by that same sensibility.
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Post by imec on Feb 18, 2010 17:57:11 GMT
kimby, bixa, bjd - lots of beautiful ironwork here! Funny, I had forgotten all about that elaborate elevator in Lisbon - do I recall correctly that it was originally steam powered?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 17:58:54 GMT
Yes, I had forgotten about the elevator, too, but I must confess that Salazar was still in power the last time I was in Lisbon.
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Post by bjd on Feb 18, 2010 18:23:01 GMT
Indeed, Imec. The elevator was steam-powered for the first 5 years (1902-1907) and then was converted to electricity.
You should go back to Lisbon, Kerouac. It's a wonderful city. One of my favourites.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 20:49:47 GMT
Yes, I absolutely loved it when I was there. I keep promising myself to go back and then something else comes up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 21:58:19 GMT
Very beautiful pictures good people,love this stuff! I took a couple on Mardi Gras,may post,not so hot... Now,I really want to go to Lisbon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 1:13:44 GMT
This is the Pontalba Building in the French Quarter,the oldest apartment building in the U.S. Legend has it, that in 1958,there was a plot to assassinate Charles De Gaulle while here for a commemorative anniversary event,from the third window(the one with no blinds drawn)which overlooks Jackson Square. Anyway,beautiful wrought iron.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2010 23:21:29 GMT
entrance to the Biblioteca Hemeroteca (periodical library) in Oaxaca
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 17:46:50 GMT
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of "wrought" iron in my part of the world. But if you look around you can find metal work that approximates it: In the window above the entrance to the US Forest Service regional headquarters building. (note the tree) This is a pedestrian gate for a new low income housing development: and a detail from the same gate/fence:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 0:20:32 GMT
That looks so pretty, Kimby. Here's some:
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2010 19:23:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 22:01:48 GMT
A wrought iron festival and Bob Marley, too. Excellent, deyana and bixaorellana!
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Post by fumobici on Apr 26, 2010 22:29:14 GMT
This thread is excellent. There doesn't seem to be wrought iron around here- none that I can remember at any rate.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 22:35:10 GMT
Thanks...
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2010 21:17:05 GMT
I love your gate Kimby!!! I have always been partial to spiral motifs in anything ( when I doodle I make spirals... ) Saw this while on a walk today. 'Tis a departure from our ornate iron work,but, I love it.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2010 21:53:28 GMT
Nice spirals!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2010 10:53:57 GMT
Thanks! Oak motif (very, very common here):
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Post by greyghost1 on May 12, 2010 22:15:12 GMT
Not quite wrought iron but by Hector Guimard, a friend of Maurice Neumont, artiste, peintre and lithograph. He designed the art nouveau door at #1 Place du Calvare, 18e, home of Neumont, 1861-1930, "Mort dans cette maison." As you know Guimand also did this one:
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2010 0:31:04 GMT
Gorgeous, GreyGhost! I love that little spiderweb detail on the door, and your angle on the Metro entrance really "makes it".
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Post by greyghost1 on May 13, 2010 17:23:17 GMT
Thanks bixaorellana, it was my first time spending several days just wandering the 18th and I really!!! enjoyed the area.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2010 0:18:18 GMT
Fabulous Greyghost!!! These were taken at a museum in Southampton,N.Y.
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:16:27 GMT
Not wrought, more like "distressed"! There are dozens of flower baskets like these made of welded and cut metal, waiting to be filled with color for the short summer. For now, though, they are empty, as it's still likely to freeze at night....
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:17:45 GMT
(and I love all the real wrought iron shown here, particularly casi's gates)
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:30:18 GMT
The decorative awning over the entrance to the Macy's/BonMarche/Mercantile building. Which as you can see is now vacant, after over 120 years as a retail center in Missoula. I'm happy(?) to report that after closing "our" downtown Macy's and a couple other stores, Macy's is now reporting profitable operations. Shame they couldn't have hung on a bit longer...
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2010 0:41:28 GMT
A detail of one of the wrought iron balconies in Sydney's The Rocks neighborhood.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2010 17:49:06 GMT
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Post by rikita on Jul 24, 2010 23:44:21 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2010 23:53:24 GMT
Those are two really amazing photos in a row, Kerouac and Rikita. What I love about both of them is that they feature a hard material -- iron, but are both are "soft" pictures in the way they depict texture and light.
I love the water dripping through the first one, and the glimpse of soft red that enriches the tones of gray, black, and white in the second.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2010 15:55:03 GMT
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Post by cigalechanta on Aug 1, 2010 17:10:42 GMT
thanks, all great shots! I like looking up at the campaniles of Provence
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