The World of Interiors

Opposite: this stone bust still wearing crystal Christmas decorations was moved to this terrace from the dining room during one ...

This page: Bhutan’s flag hangs on the ceiling of a brightly painted room. Opposite: blankets for visiting family and friends a ...

HIDDEN DRAGON Prior to 1974 Bhutan was closed to the outside world. And until recently its rural farmhouses remained relatively ...

This page clockwise from top left: in a valley off the main road from Paro to Thimpu vernacular architecture is dwarfed by the H ...

This page clockwise from top left: the altar as seen from the extension room; elaborate window frames are common to farmhouses a ...

Top: a blanket thicker than the others in the house protects the living room from the elements. Above: at one end of the kitchen ...

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Top: offering cups sit beneath a mural of the Buddha in the altar room of the village’s main administration building. Beside t ...

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THE S5 BUILDING AT THE GUIANA SPACE CENTRE – EUROPE’S SPACEPORT IN KOROU FRENCH GUIANA – IS USED FOR THE FINAL PREPARATION ...

WE FORM OUR CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE FROM RAYS BEAMING VAST DISTANCES SO IT IS SOMEHOW APT THAT PHOTO GRAPHER EDGAR MARTINS SH ...

AT THE YURI GAGARIN COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTRE IN RUSSIA’S STAR CITY A PRESSURE SUIT SITS IN FRONT OF A SOYUZ-TMA TRAINING MODU ...

HISTORIC SPACE HARDWARE: SPACELAB – THE REUSABLE LABORATORY MOD- ULE EMPLOYED ON 22 ORBITAL MISSIONS DURING THE 1980s AND 1990 ...

TOP: LIKE HI-TECH LEGO THE MOBILE GANTRY FOR THE VEGA LAUNCHER AT THE GUIANA SPACE CENTRE BECOMES ALMOST ABSTRACT WHEN SHOT FROM ...

TOP: THE MERCURY TRANSFER MODULE – THE PROPULSION VEHICLE FOR BEPI- COLOMBO THE ESA’S FIRST MISSION TO MERCURY DUE TO LAUNCH ...

TRAVEL IS in a sense inseparable from our conception of outer space. To be specific travelling light. Our view of the heav- ens ...

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This page: shown here are designs for the bedspread carpet and lambrequin or window drapery. Opposite: on the far wall is the do ...

Before the fall of his empire in 1870 Napoleon III toured France in locomotive luxury. Two years earlier it was all change for o ...

This page clockwise from top left: the reverse of the 3D model shows a cut-out and covered opening describing the door between t ...