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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Obscure Architectural Term of the Day!

ENFILADE. The French system of aligning internal doors in a sequence so that a vista is obtained through a series of rooms when all the doors are open. They are usually placed close to the windows. The arrangement was introduced c. 1650 and became a feature of Baroque palace planning.

From the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition.

Here's a photo of the interior of L'Hôtel de la Préfecture du Calvados, which, according to the Google tranlation, means "The Hotel of the Prefecture of the Apple-brandy." Also, here's a picture showing the same sort of effect from a Dutch site, and if I knew Dutch I'd tell you what building it is. I don't think it has anything to do with apple-brandy, however.

posted by Terry at 8:03:00 AM

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