Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2007

How's your sense of humor?



Earlier this month, I happened to be in Brussels.


On the famous Grand Place, one of the 'brasseries' (think pub, cafe, bar, etc) is the 1697 Guild House "Roi d'Espagne" (King of Spain), which is located the northern corner of Grand Place.


For reference, their website is:
http://www.roydespagne.be/


In any event, their men's room is up on the 1st Floor (ie, one level up), which had the following interesting decor:





This angle reveals that the "wallpaper" consists of full-size black & white (mostly) photos behind a sheet of glass. However, this angle gives an interestingly diffrent interpretation:




Saturday, September 15, 2007

Lust




Sometimes, there's just certain cars that hit some sort of primordial "lust" button.



The Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing" is one of those cars.



Naturally, the perfect color combination is a German silver exterior with a red leather interior.

I believe that this one was a 1955 edition; its in the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart, Germany (go!)



-hh