Image from last Sunday’s walking tour which I organised in Gradina Icoanei area of Bucharest. It is a wall lamp representing a fearsome dragon, which through the fire flames billowing out of its mouth suggest its role as a light appliance, acting also as the symbolic protector of the family living in that house. The artefact and the building are designed in what I term as the fairytale castle style architecture, popular in Bucharest and other large Romanian towns during the prosperous period of the late 1930s.
Valentin Mandache, architectural historian 
The dragon is superb!! a real testament to the skill of the metal worker who fashioned it
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Those skills are unfortunately lost nowadays and it will take another decade, maybe more, for talented local craftsmen to re-emerge. VM
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