The Black Filigree Staircase
Tag: spiral staircase
The Saigon Staircase
Photographer Unknown, Staircase in Saigon Coffee House
Central Courtyard Stairway
Down Through the Central Courtyard
The Metal Ascension
Photographer Unknown, (The Metal Ascension)
Peles Castle
Spiral Staircase, Peles Castle, Romania
Peles Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, on an existing medieval route linking Transylvania and Wallachia. It was built between 1873 and 1914 and constructed for King Carol I.
The Suspension of the Green Spiral
Photographer Unknown, (The Suspension of the Green Spiral)
“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
The Back Stairway to Heaven
Photographer Unknown, (The Back Stairway to Heaven)
Bertrand Russell: “We Think the Grass is Green”
Photographer Unknown, (The Green at the Center)
“We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that things
are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones
are hard, and that snow is cold. But physics assures us that the
greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of
snow are not the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and
the coldness of snow that we know in our own experience, but
something very different.”
-Bertrand Russell
