From the Department of Awesome Interiors comes the breathtakingly elaborate and colourful Peacock Room, located inside the abandoned Sammezzano Castle in Tuscany. The now derelict castle was built in 1605.
Photos via Romany WG and Martino Zegwaard
[via Design You Trust and inthralld.]
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Ndebele house paintings from South Africa. A style developed after the Ndebele started fighting with the European farmers in 1883. Wikipedia:
These wall paintings done by the women of the Ndebele was their secret code to their people, disguised to anyone but the Ndebele.
Tonina – ruins from the Maya civilization. Not sure what this is supposed to mean, but it seems important!
The Grecas contain a message from the ancients or the gods, perhaps even Quetzalcoatl himself. / The corners add up to 28, which was interpreted as linking it with a 28-day lunar calendar used at one time by the Maya. / The secret pattern in the Grecas becomes evident when the photograph is cropped to remove the steps, as seen below. The left and right sides appear aligned to form an “X.”
Mitla, Mexico. The most important site of the Zapotec people, and later the Mixtecs. Each unit of the mosaic is a separate stone, and they are held together only by the weight of the surrounding stones.
Mitla was inhabited apx 2000 years ago. The European invaders fucked it up, of course.