@doorsofberlin.bsky.social
The ornate decoration and arcane iconography of doors in Berlin. From the people who brought you @berlintypography.
Correct: one also needs some butter and a glass of wine.
21.01.2024 12:51 — 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A close-up of the detailed stonework at the top.
14.01.2024 12:26 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re back … and we have lots of strange and wonderful doors for the coming year.
13.01.2024 11:45 — 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
An arch of leaves.
26.12.2023 13:39 — 👍 41 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Time to cleanse the palate with some post-war modernism. That diagonal bar – which appears on numerous mid-century Berlin doors – is an unheralded design classic.
16.12.2023 12:33 — 👍 127 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
Two inscriptions flanking yesterday’s door.
No. 2: Additional information.
Two inscriptions flanking yesterday’s door.
No. 1: Essential information.
The battle between modernity and monumentality (1925).
09.12.2023 12:04 — 👍 38 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
The door that goes with yesterday’s devil.
05.12.2023 11:02 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The devil in the details.
03.12.2023 11:26 — 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Egg and Dart detail.
27.11.2023 10:43 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Egg and Dart in the Gründerzeit.
26.11.2023 11:09 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Detail from yesterday’s door.
24.11.2023 12:30 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Corner grandeur.
23.11.2023 10:57 — 👍 50 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Exotic windows over the lintel (from the same Siedlung as the previous door).
21.11.2023 10:47 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Detail from a door in the same Siedlung as yesterday’s door.
20.11.2023 10:55 — 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Door and non-door.
19.11.2023 12:00 — 👍 52 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
The detail from yesterday’s door features some vicious birds attacking a snake flanked by the heads of two sleeping kings. Perhaps…
17.11.2023 11:48 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An inconspicuous entrance.
16.11.2023 11:07 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Owl detail.
14.11.2023 10:53 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A pair of owls preside over yesterday’s door.
13.11.2023 11:11 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Liven up your Altbau with some tobacco-coloured seventies tiles.
12.11.2023 12:02 — 👍 42 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A triangular cap.
09.11.2023 10:45 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
A triangular cap.
09.11.2023 10:45 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1Beautiful!
07.11.2023 10:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Guard lion.
07.11.2023 10:38 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Detail from yesterday’s door: there is a lot of symbolism to unpack here…
06.11.2023 11:52 — 👍 32 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
In the world of Berlin doors, there is no such thing as ‘too much’…
05.11.2023 11:34 — 👍 116 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
Detail from yesterday’s door.
02.11.2023 10:55 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
