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Photographs from the Sunday 8 April ’12 architectural tour in Cotroceni quarter

10/04/201218/04/2012Valentin Mandache

Historic Houses of Romania architectural history tour in Cotroceni quarter, Bucharest — Historic Houses of Romania architectural history tour in Cotroceni quarter, Bucharest, 8 April '12 (©Valentin Mandache)

Details about Cotroceni walking tour here- https://historo.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/sunday-8-april-architectural-tour-in-cotroceni-quarter-of-bucharest/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxLIWcUGt4&context=C4f7076eADvjVQa1PpcFO8fgAf_V80gfiKsPYx7l4J4mBqvrmUME4=

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A pre-1916 Neo-Romanian style house in Gara de Nord area of Bucharest, built with side “shield” (the left hand side windowless wall), typical to high density population areas of urban areas in pre-Great War Romania. The scheme is more typical for the wagon houses in Little Paris style, but was also sometimes employed for the ampler national style dwellings. It was completely abandoned in Bucharest after 1918. #neoromanian #calcan #garadenord #1910s #bucharest #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Neglected Neo-Romanian style frieze and facade defaced by ignorant renovations in full disregard of heritage protection laws and rules, an ubiquitous scene in the whole of Bucharest, the fifth largest EU capital, but just in name, certainly not in civilisation. Gara de Nord area. #neoromanian #bucharest #garadenord #1930s #balkans #sputheasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Pseudo-Wallachian portals of Maramures wooden churches from the collection of Sighetul Marmatiei Ethnographic Museum. #portal #woodenchurch #wallachian #pseudowallachian #maramures #sighetulmarmatiei #ethnographicmuseum #sputheasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

This is probably the most valuable art assembly of the town of Buzau in SE Romania: sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s Prayer monument, a tomb in Dumbrava cemetery. It was installed in 1914, one year after the New York’s Armoury Show, which brought worldwide fame to this artist. The female statue is a copy, the original being kept at the Nationals Museum of Art in Bucharest. The copy was stolen numerous times in the 1990s and the 2000s when the locals thought they could get rich over the night on the Western art markets, which prompted the authorities to write clearly on the plinth that is not an original, and thus put a stop to thieving. #prayer #rugaciune #brancusi #constantinbrancusi #dumbrava #cemetery #buzau #southeasteurope #balkans #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Orientalist style gazebo/ kiosk tombs, from the 1890s era, in Dumbrava cemetery, Buzau, SE Romania. #ironworker #tomb #gazebo #kiosk #1890s #buzau #dumbrava #cemetery #casedeepoca #southeasteurope #valentinmandache #orientalist

Sunset seen through the 1890s Little Paris style glass and ironwork of a “tea pavilion” tomb in Dumbrava cemetery of Buzau, SE Romania. #littleparis #labelleepoque #cemetery #ironwork #dumbrava #buzau #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

A charming Little Paris style tomb, with Orientalist/ Early Neo-Romanian elements, from the 1890s, in Dumbrava cemetery, Buzau, SE Romania. #littleparis #earlyneoromanian #neoromanian #tomb #cemetery #1890s #buzau #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

An unusually long table and benches, made from single trunks of oak, like the ship masts, unfurling on the full length of the southern side of Rogoz wooden church (built in the 17th c), in Lapus Country/ Maramures. The table is called the Elders’ Table (‘Masa Mosilor’ in Ro), used for communal festival meals, and protected from inclement weather by an ample roof eave. #oaktable #woodenchurch #rogoz #taralapusului #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

The typical Maramures style wooden gates of the priest’s house in the village of Breb (Romanian for beaver). #maramuresgates #woodengates #gates #breb #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

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