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“The Modernisation of Romania: Royal Destinies” – Presentations and debate at Cafeneaua Liberala, 10 Jan. ’13
The event is hosted by Cafeneaua Liberala (The Liberal Cafe, in Lipscani quarter of Bucharest), through the invitation the National Liberal Party Bloggers’ Club, Thursday 10 January 2013, 18.30h – 20.30h.
There are two presentations, followed by questions and discussions:
-120 years since the marriage of Princess Marie of Edinburgh with Prince Ferdinand of Romania – by Diana Mandache and
-The “Little Paris” style – architectural identity in the times of King Carol I – by Valentin Mandache.
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The partitipants will also have the opportunity to buy the authographed volume entitled “Marie of Romania. Images of a Queen” de Diana Mandache, the first pictorial history of the life of Queen Marie of Romania: http://www.royalbooks.se/produkt/45/marie-of-romania-images-of-a-queen.html, and also the album “HM King Michael of Romania – A Tribute” by HRH Prince Radu http://www.royalbooks.se/produkt/44/h-m-king-michael-i-of-romania-a-tribute.html
The most popular 20 Historic Houses of Romania blog articles in 2012
From the blog statistics (click titles to access articles):
- The NEO-ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: a brief guide on its origins and features
- ART DECO Bucharest building damaged through ignorance and avarice
- Earthquake Events in Bucharest and Their Effect on Historic Houses
- Bucharest mid-1930s Art Deco Style House
- Superlative Bucharest Art Deco House
- CASOTA CONAC: a magnificent Romanian period property with a great potential
- Art Deco Style Greek God Bass-Reliefs: Photomontage & Slide Show
- The FOUR BUILDING BOOMS of BUCHAREST
- The FINIALS of Neo-Romanian style houses
- Art Deco Floral Motifs for Birthday Celebration
- Bucharest Neo-Romanian style windows
- Round towers Art Deco apartment house
- Cheerful Art Deco panel
- ALLEGORICAL SCULPTURES on the Building of Romania’s National Bank
- Bucharest’s Art Deco glass canopies
- The Mascarons of Bucharest: Photomontage and Slides
- Art Nouveau ironwork ornaments
- Art Nouveau Beer Restaurant in Provincial Romania
- People from Bucharest’s Art Deco era
- Bucharest 1900s architectural ironwork
The 10 most popular Historic Houses of Romania articles in November 2012
- The NEO-ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: a brief guide on its origins and features
- Earthquake Events in Bucharest and Their Effect on Historic Houses
- ART DECO Bucharest building damaged through ignorance and avarice
- Bucharest mid-1930s Art Deco Style House
- CASOTA CONAC: a magnificent Romanian period property with a great potential
- Art Deco Style Greek God Bass-Reliefs: Photomontage & Slide Show
- Art Deco doorways
- Cheerful Art Deco panel
- The FOUR BUILDING BOOMS of BUCHAREST
- Bucharest Neo-Romanian style windows
The author of Historic Houses of Romania blog at the launch of the Liberal Publishing House
I had the honour to be invited, yesterday 21 Nov. ’12, at the launch of the Liberal Publishing House, in the great company of Mr. Radu Campeanu, a veteran of the National Liberal Party of Romania, who spent many years in the Stalinist prisons and in exile (he is among the main re-founders of the party after the fall of Ceausescu’s dictatorship), and Mr. Varujan Vosganian, a leading member of that National Liberals. I spoke about the Neo-Romanian architectural style and how the building hosting the event, Ionel IC Bratianu House, by architect Petre Antonescu – 1908, is one of the archetypes of this design peculiar to this country. I trust that the speech was received with interest, judging from the images and video-recoding presented bellow. VM
November sunlight and Little Paris architecture in Bucharest
We had a wonderful sunlight this autumn, beginning roundabout the equinox in late September until the time I write, in the second week of November. This season at 45 degree north latitude in continental Europe, where Bucharest is located, seems to be exceedingly propitious for architectural photography, with its clear, crisp atmosphere and intense colours. The images in this post are of a house in the Little Paris style (a term which I use to describe the late c19th architecture of Romania of that period, inspired mainly from French historicist styles, rendered in a provincial manner in this corner of South East Europe), a manner of architectural design that imprinted the identity of Romania’s capital ever since its day of vogue in the La Belle Époque period. The photograph was taken on 8 November at midday. It is a pity that the house and the entire surrounding garden is left derelict and damaged through being exposed to the elements or theft. These houses can be relatively easily and cheaply restored, but the actual citizens of Bucharest seem to not understand yet the fatal loss of their identity and heritage though that kind of damaging communist and post-communist attitude.
The 10 most popular Historic Houses of Romania articles in October 2012
- Art Deco Building Interior Elements
- The NEO-ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: a brief guide on its origins and features
- Bucharest mid-1930s Art Deco Style House
- Travel writing: trip to Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Church royal chair featuring King Ferdinand’s cypher
- ART DECO Bucharest building damaged through ignorance and avarice
- Art Deco Style Greek God Bass-Reliefs: Photomontage & Slide Show
- CASOTA CONAC: a magnificent Romanian period property with a great potential
- The DOORWAYS of Bucharest – Part 1 (the Little Paris type)
- The FOUR BUILDING BOOMS of BUCHAREST
Autumnal sky and clouds rushing over Antim Monastery, Bucharest
This is a small sample from Bucharest’s environmental identity: one of the city’s old churches, Antim Monastery, with its majestic cupola towers set against the beautiful autumnal blue sky, peppered with fast moving patches of clouds, so peculiar to this latitude, mid-way between the North Pole and the Equator, in continental Europe.
Short visit to Antim Monastery, Bucharest
I just had a short visit to the beautiful Antim Monastery in the very centre of Bucharest. It is a superb building gathering many motifs and styles from the Ottoman world of the c17th and c18th that I need to thoroughly investigate, analyse and meditate upon.
HM King Michael of Romania – 91st birthday, 25 October 2012
Today is the 91st birthday of HM King Michael of Romania!
Bellow is the article in the British monthly magazine “Majesty” published last year, authored by Diana and the undersigned celebrating His Majesty’s life and achievements:
Valentin Mandache, architectural historian 