ab. 1922 Evening dress by unknown maker

Hotel Amanauz, Dombai, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia (Caucasus).

A late-1980s Soviet brutalist project designed with that wild honeycomb facade of modular balconies. It was planned as a huge resort hotel (~480 rooms, cinema for 630) and even had a rumored rotating base to follow the sun.

Construction halted mid-project due to foundation cracks and funding collapse as the USSR fell.

It’s stood abandoned ever since - a concrete monument to ambitious dreams that never finished.

Ribwort plantain and grasses - Paula von Goeschen-Rösler

German , 1875-1941

Stoneware bowl in the form of a drum with three legs with kintsugi a gold lacquer repair technique originated in Japan.

China, 12th-14th century, repairs 19th century.

Unknown maker

Now housed at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.