#architraves

Monastery of Saint Mary of Iranzu, Navarre, Spain,

'The book "Carved architraves. Central Russia". A book about architraves, which includes more than two thousand photographs and stories recorded during expeditions of several years.

"Since three-quarters of the book's contents are photographs, its size is as large as it could be: 275x350mm. It's more than an encyclopedia. This is delightfully much and even the small details of the carving of the architraves will be visible. In fact, it's so much that I'm worried that you'll say that the book is too big and doesn't fit on the shelf. But… There are also small photos on the Internet, and in the book, on every spread, there is a delight in beauty and scale.

The book is divided into two parts.

The first one is small. The history of the appearance and development of architraves and house carvings from the XI century to the present day. What happened before their appearance, how they spread and changed, how they were influenced by stone architecture, the Decembrist uprising, the industrial revolution, the Great Patriotic War and much more.

Door Casings -by Gautam Shah

  Door Casings Door masonry gaps are often too deep and a wood (or other materials) frame cannot cover the entire width. To economize the use of wood, door frames have to be of functional size (depth). The sides of the gap are covered by a Casing. Casing is a widened frame, or additional panelling that is placed on the remaining area of sides. The casing usually is placed on the interior face of…

The Edinburgh based trio STILLHOUND have announced the release of their  ‘Bury Everything’ alongside album opener ‘Spring Conscious,’ a huge and sailplaning pop track with Foals-esque guitar elaboration and a soaring chorus.

STILLHOUND and their shameless synth pop architraves …Photo Credit – Benedetta Margoni

STILLHOUNDconsists of Fergus, Laurie Corlett-Donald and Dave Lloyd — the outfit take…