Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Parisian architecture


How amazing is this? 
Owners of this house close to the centre of Paris have commissioned an artist to paint these murals on to their property. The main image depicted is a replica of a building in the same area. 
I feel that the doorway 'leading' to the picturesque path is particularly effective when juxtaposed with the cosmopolitan setting in which the property sits! As you can see from the photographs the image of the house front is simply amazing! You really wouldn't know that it was a bog standard house fascia beneath this beautifully detailed painting. The photographs don't even show the true effect of the image! It was staggering! 
What do you think? If I hadn't seen for myself how tastefully it has been handled, I would probably have thought the idea was a bit tacky? It definitely stretches the meaning of the term architecture!

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