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  • Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The room is furnished with a 17th century day bed in blue fabric, a Louis XIV style footstool, a tortoiseshell veneered red cabinet with bone and ebony inlay by Pierre Gole, 1620-84, with 3 potiches and 2 vases in porcelain dating to the 18th century, and a 'doll's head' clock made c. 1650 by Balthazar Martinot. The painting is The Annuncation to Manoah of the Birth of Samson to his Wife by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The room is furnished with a 17th century day bed in blue fabric, a Louis XIV style footstool, a tortoiseshell veneered red cabinet with bone and ebony inlay by Pierre Gole, 1620-84, with 3 potiches and 2 vases in porcelain dating to the 18th century, and a 'doll's head' clock made c. 1650 by Balthazar Martinot. The painting is The Annuncation to Manoah of the Birth of Samson to his Wife by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The room is furnished with a 17th century day bed in blue fabric, a Louis XIV style footstool, a tortoiseshell veneered red cabinet with bone and ebony inlay by Pierre Gole, 1620-84, with 3 potiches and 2 vases in porcelain dating to the 18th century, and a 'doll's head' clock made c. 1650 by Balthazar Martinot. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Day bed with blue fabric, 17th century, in Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tortoiseshell veneered red cabinet with bone and ebony inlay by Pierre Gole, 1620-84, detail, in Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The room is furnished with a 17th century day bed in blue fabric, a Louis XIV style footstool, a tortoiseshell veneered red cabinet with bone and ebony inlay by Pierre Gole, 1620-84, with 3 potiches and 2 vases in porcelain dating to the 18th century, and a 'doll's head' clock made c. 1650 by Balthazar Martinot. The painting is The Annuncation to Manoah of the Birth of Samson to his Wife by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The room is furnished with a 17th century day bed in blue fabric, a Louis XIV style footstool, a tortoiseshell veneered red cabinet with bone and ebony inlay by Pierre Gole, 1620-84, with 3 potiches and 2 vases in porcelain dating to the 18th century, and a 'doll's head' clock made c. 1650 by Balthazar Martinot. The painting is The Annuncation to Manoah of the Birth of Samson to his Wife by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Annuncation to Manoah of the Birth of Samson to his Wife, painting by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, in Mme Fouquet's Sitting Room, originally a sitting room for Marie-Madeleine de Castille, then turned into a guest room in 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Small sitting room, seen from the dining room, through a lobed triple arch structure separated by twisted columns with carved capitals, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of the Duchess de Villars, allegorical painting by Charles Coypel, 1694-1752, in the King's Sitting Room, a state room in the Royal Apartments which became the study of Marshal de Villars after 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The duchess was Jeanne-Angelique Roque de Varangeville, wife of Claude-Louis Hector, Marshal de Villars. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • King's Sitting Room, a state room in the Royal Apartments which became the study of Marshal de Villars after 1705, at the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The cabinet is 17th century, made from ebony with pewter and ivory marquetry with pierres paysageres, stone cut to resemble landscapes. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Small sitting room adjoining the dining room, with marble tiled floor, terracotta walls and a coffered wooden ceiling, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Small sitting room adjoining the dining room, with marble tiled floor, terracotta walls and a coffered wooden ceiling, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Small sitting room at the entrance to the ground floor, opposite the library, in Casa Rocamora, the Isabelline mansion of art collector Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, where he lived from 1935, on the Carrer de Ballester in El Putxet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house is open to the public, managed by the Fundacion Rocamora, and houses the private collection of Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, 1892-1976, including Modernist art, figureheads and ceramics. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Candelabra, sculpture and framed maps in the Sitting Room, in the Chateau de Hardelot, originally the site of a 12th century castle, rebuilt over the centuries and finally redeveloped in the 19th century, in Condette, Pas-de-Calais, France. The current building dates from 1865-72, when its owner, Henry Guy, rebuilt the chateau in Neo-Tudor style. Since 2009 the building has housed the Centre Culturel de l'Entente Cordiale, with an arts programme involving France and Britain. It is situated within the Reserve Naturelle Regionale du Marais de Condette, a protected marshland area. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sitting Room, in the Chateau de Hardelot, originally the site of a 12th century castle, rebuilt over the centuries and finally redeveloped in the 19th century, in Condette, Pas-de-Calais, France. Above the fireplace hangs a portrait of King Charles I with his wife Henrietta Maria of France, daughter of Henri IV,   representing a time of alliance between France and Britain. The current building dates from 1865-72, when its owner, Henry Guy, rebuilt the chateau in Neo-Tudor style. Since 2009 the building has housed the Centre Culturel de l'Entente Cordiale, with an arts programme involving France and Britain. It is situated within the Reserve Naturelle Regionale du Marais de Condette, a protected marshland area. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the  Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ernie LaPointe, b. 1948, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, holding a drum, on the terrace of Diane Jos' 'Paris avec toits', where bees are kept in hives on Parisian rooftops, Paris, France. Ernie LaPointe is a Native American sun dancer, speaker, writer and founding president of the Sitting Bull Family Foundation. He follows a traditional Lakota life in South Dakota, using oral traditions to perpetuate the history of Sitting Bull. Photographed on 20th May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil painting of flying birds, in the cupola of the first floor sitting room, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil painting of flying birds, detail, in the cupola of the first floor sitting room, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female Guinea Baboon (Papio papio), sitting on top of a tree stump on look-out, in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female Guinea Baboon (Papio papio), sitting on top of a tree stump on look-out, in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female Guinea Baboon (Papio papio), sitting on top of a tree stump on look-out, in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Woman sitting on a steel bench of the Cuvier alley in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil painting of flying birds, in the cupola of the first floor sitting room, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil painting of flying birds, in the cupola of the first floor sitting room, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil painting of flying birds, detail, in the cupola of the first floor sitting room, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil painting of flying birds, detail, in the cupola of the first floor sitting room, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sitting room, with wood burning stove and mismatched chairs and wallpaper, in the Pavillon des Canaux, a coffee shop, cafe and meeting place on the Quai de la Loire, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. The Pavillon des Canaux provides an inspiring interior with original furniture and decor to relax, eat, drink, work and pass the time. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man sitting on a bench in the Old Harbour, watching a passing boat leaving for Lokrum Island, Old Town, Dubrovnik, Croatia. The city developed as an important port in the 15th and 16th centuries and has had a multicultural history, allied to the Romans, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Ancona, Hungary and the Ottomans. In 1979 the city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Guinea Baboon (Papio papio) sitting in a tree and eating, in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female Guinea Baboon (Papio papio), sitting on top of a tree stump on look-out, in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female Guinea Baboon (Papio papio), sitting on top of a tree stump on look-out, in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Old women sitting in the narrow stepped streets of the old town or Casc Antic of Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain. Tortosa is an ancient town situated on the Ebro Delta which has a rich heritage dating from Roman times. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • People sitting in the square, Capileira, in the gorge of the Poqueira river, Alpujarra, Andalucia, Southern Spain. Moorish influence is seen in the distinctive cubic architecture of the Sierra Nevada's Alpujarra region, reminiscent of Berber architecture in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. Photograph by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Woman in Red Sitting and reading on her mobile phone, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France. In the background the balustrade catches the low light of the sunset. Photograph by Manuel Cohen.
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  • People walking or sitting on the benches of the alley of Buffon, Jardin des Plantes, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the relief behind the statue of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck, known as Lamarck, depicting an elderly Lamarck sitting beside his standing daughter, one hand on his shoulder, trees and tropical foliage carved in the background of the scene, created by Leon Fagel in 1908 and located at the entrance of Carr»s de la perpective (the plots of Perspective), Valhubert Place, in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of a woman sitting on a bench in the courtyard of the Memorial of Baha Ad-Din Naqshband, died 1389, patron of Bukhara, seen through the richly decorated archway to the tomb, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, on July 12, 2010, in the afternoon. The construction of the whole complex took over five centuries. Bukhara, a city on the Silk Route is about 2500 years old. Its long history is displayed both through the impressive monuments and the overall town planning and architecture.
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  • Medina, Tangier, Morocco pictured on December 27, 2009. A group of men sit along a stone bench in the Old Town. The white cap of one of them catches the rays of the winter afternoon sunshine.  Tangier, the 'White City', gateway to North Africa, a port on the Straits of Gibraltar where the Meditaerranean meets the Atlantic is an ancient city where many cultures, Phoenicians, Berbers, Portuguese and Spaniards have all left their mark. With its medina, palace and position overlooking two seas the city is now being developed as a tourist attraction and modern port. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • A boy sits and waits in the arid landscape beside the path leading up the Calderon Hondo volcano, Lajares, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. Fuerteventura is a volcanic island with semi-desert steppe and long sandy beaches. The island was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Monument a Cezanne (Monument to Cezanne), 1925, lead, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944),Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1664, Le Notre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Michel Serres, Ph.D. (1930), French philosopher specialized in epistemology, professor as well as a writer, member of the prestigious French Academy (March 29th 1990), honoured with National Order of the Legion of Honour (Grand Officier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur) in July 2010, at his Parisian residence on May 5th, 2012. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Spanish writer and journalist, Cristina Fallaras, winner of the Spanish Hammett Prize at Gijon Crime Fiction Festival in 2012 for her last crime fiction novel "Las ninas perdidas" (The Lost Girls), Roca 2011, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on January 09, 2013. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Spanish writer and journalist, Cristina Fallaras, winner of the Spanish Hammett Prize at Gijon Crime Fiction Festival in 2012 for her last crime fiction novel "Las ninas perdidas" (The Lost Girls), Roca 2011, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on January 09, 2013. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Spanish writer and journalist, Cristina Fallaras, winner of the Spanish Hammett Prize at Gijon Crime Fiction Festival in 2012 for her last crime fiction novel "Las ninas perdidas" (The Lost Girls), Roca 2011, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on January 09, 2013. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Spanish writer and journalist, Cristina Fallaras, winner of the Spanish Hammett Prize at Gijon Crime Fiction Festival in 2012 for her last crime fiction novel "Las ninas perdidas" (The Lost Girls), Roca 2011, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on January 09, 2013. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • L'Abondance (Abundantia), stone, 1846, by Louis Petitot (1794-1862), pont du Carrousel, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Controller-General of Finances, by Jacques-Edme Dumont (1761-1844), early 19th century, Palais Bourbon, seat of the French National Assembly, left bank of the Seine, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Le Baiser (The Kiss), bronze, 1881-1898, by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens), 1664, Le Nôtre, Paris, France. Egyptian obelisk of Place de la Concorde visible in the distance. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Monument a Cezanne (Monument to Cezanne), 1925, lead, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944),Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1664, Le Notre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Monument a Cezanne (Monument to Cezanne), 1925, lead, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944),Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1664, Le Notre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Michel Serres, Ph.D. (1930), French philosopher specialized in epistemology, professor as well as a writer, member of the prestigious French Academy (March 29th 1990), honoured with National Order of the Legion of Honour (Grand Officier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur) in July 2010, at his Parisian residence on May 5th, 2012. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Michel Serres, Ph.D. (1930), French philosopher specialized in epistemology, professor as well as a writer, member of the prestigious French Academy (March 29th 1990), honoured with National Order of the Legion of Honour (Grand Officier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur) in July 2010, at his Parisian residence on May 5th, 2012. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tourists on Saint Vincent Beach, Collioure, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Medina, Tangier, Morocco pictured on December 27, 2009. A group of men are barely seen in the shadowy Old Town. One wears a white Djellaba and cap which catch the little available light. Tangier, the 'White City', gateway to North Africa, a port on the Straits of Gibraltar where the Meditaerranean meets the Atlantic is an ancient city where many cultures, Phoenicians, Berbers, Portuguese and Spaniards have all left their mark. With its medina, palace and position overlooking two seas the city is now being developed as a tourist attraction and modern port. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Romantica, or The Novel, oil painting on canvas, by Santiago Rusinol i Prats, 1861-1931, from the collection of the Museu National d'Art de Catalunya, in the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted stone decoration of 2 figures, on the intrados or lower curve of the arch of the main door separating the terrace from the Sala de Contratacion or Trading Hall, at the Llotja de la Seda or Lonja de la Seda, the Silk Exchange, a Gothic building designed by Pere Compte and built 1482-1548 in Valencia, Spain. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated bronze statue of Gaudi, 1989, by Marco Herreros, on a stone bench opposite the rear facade of the building, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maids' Parlour Room, with frescoes, beside the Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petit Salon, in the Chateau d'Eu, in Eu, Normandy, France. On the wall are portraits of the count and countess of Paris, 1866, by Charles-Francois Jalabert. The chateau was begun in 1581 by Henri de Guise and Catherine de Cleves and finished in 1665 by Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans, the Grande Mademoiselle. In the 19th century the chateau was a royal residence of King Louis Philippe. The chateau houses the Musee Louis-Philippe and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted stone capital with lions holding shield, detail, in the living room overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted stone capital with animals and foliage, detail, in the living room overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Living room, with displays of the family's collection of glassware, overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted stone capital with head and foliage, detail, in the living room overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted stone capital with Capital with heron holding a purse, representing Antoni Amatller's control over the company finances, flanking the door to Antoni Amatller's bedroom, in the living room overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cabinet displaying the Amatller family's collection of glassware, in the living room overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Living room, with displays of the family's collection of glassware, overlooking the Passeig de Gracia, in the Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Floral capital and lobed arches of the Diagonal room, on the first floor of the Palau Baro de Quadras, a mansion remodelled 1904-6 in catalan Modernisme style by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, 1867-1956, between the Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Rossello, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This large room overlooking the Avinguda Diagonal was the family's main living room, with Moorish style arches, floral decorations, a coffered ceiling and stained glass gallery. The house was commissioned by Manuel Quadras i Feliu of the Quadras textile family. The building now houses the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes catalan language and culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Floral capital and lobed arches of the Diagonal room, on the first floor of the Palau Baro de Quadras, a mansion remodelled 1904-6 in catalan Modernisme style by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, 1867-1956, between the Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Rossello, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This large room overlooking the Avinguda Diagonal was the family's main living room, with Moorish style arches, floral decorations, a coffered ceiling and stained glass gallery. The house was commissioned by Manuel Quadras i Feliu of the Quadras textile family. The building now houses the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes catalan language and culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Floral capital and lobed arches of the Diagonal room, on the first floor of the Palau Baro de Quadras, a mansion remodelled 1904-6 in catalan Modernisme style by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, 1867-1956, between the Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Rossello, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This large room overlooking the Avinguda Diagonal was the family's main living room, with Moorish style arches, floral decorations, a coffered ceiling and stained glass gallery. The house was commissioned by Manuel Quadras i Feliu of the Quadras textile family. The building now houses the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes catalan language and culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Painted coffered wooden ceiling with corbels carved as animals, in the Diagonal room, on the first floor of the Palau Baro de Quadras, a mansion remodelled 1904-6 in catalan Modernisme style by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, 1867-1956, between the Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Rossello, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This large room overlooking the Avinguda Diagonal was the family's main living room, with Moorish style arches, floral decorations, a coffered ceiling and stained glass gallery. The house was commissioned by Manuel Quadras i Feliu of the Quadras textile family. The building now houses the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes catalan language and culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Door, detail, in the Diagonal room, on the first floor of the Palau Baro de Quadras, a mansion remodelled 1904-6 in catalan Modernisme style by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, 1867-1956, between the Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Rossello, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This large room overlooking the Avinguda Diagonal was the family's main living room, with Moorish style arches, floral decorations, a coffered ceiling and stained glass gallery. The house was commissioned by Manuel Quadras i Feliu of the Quadras textile family. The building now houses the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes catalan language and culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Door, detail, in the Diagonal room, on the first floor of the Palau Baro de Quadras, a mansion remodelled 1904-6 in catalan Modernisme style by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, 1867-1956, between the Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Rossello, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This large room overlooking the Avinguda Diagonal was the family's main living room, with Moorish style arches, floral decorations, a coffered ceiling and stained glass gallery. The house was commissioned by Manuel Quadras i Feliu of the Quadras textile family. The building now houses the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes catalan language and culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Living room, where visitors were received, with sculptures and paintings, including artwork by Modest Urgell and Ramon Marti Alsina, in Casa Rocamora, the Isabelline mansion of art collector Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, where he lived from 1935, on the Carrer de Ballester in El Putxet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house is open to the public, managed by the Fundacion Rocamora, and houses the private collection of Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, 1892-1976, including Modernist art, figureheads and ceramics. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Living room, where visitors were received, with sculptures and paintings, including artwork by Modest Urgell and Ramon Marti Alsina, in Casa Rocamora, the Isabelline mansion of art collector Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, where he lived from 1935, on the Carrer de Ballester in El Putxet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house is open to the public, managed by the Fundacion Rocamora, and houses the private collection of Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, 1892-1976, including Modernist art, figureheads and ceramics. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Living room, where visitors were received, with sculptures and paintings, including artwork by Modest Urgell and Ramon Marti Alsina, in Casa Rocamora, the Isabelline mansion of art collector Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, where he lived from 1935, on the Carrer de Ballester in El Putxet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house is open to the public, managed by the Fundacion Rocamora, and houses the private collection of Manuel Rocamora y Vidal, 1892-1976, including Modernist art, figureheads and ceramics. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Egg living room, with Arabic style furnishings, in the Salvador Dali House Museum in Portlligat, Cap de Creus, Cadaques, Catalonia, Spain. Salvador Dali, 1904-89, Spanish Surrealist painter, lived and worked here from 1930 to 1982, when his partner and muse Gala died. The building was originally several fisherman's cottages which the couple bought and developed, with windows overlooking the bay, a swimming pool and garden studio. The house became a museum in 1997, run by the Dali Foundation. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cafes and benches along the seafront in Collioure, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Behind is the Eglise Notre-Dame-des-Anges, or Church of Our Lady of the Angels, built in 1684, with an attached bell tower which was originally used as a lighthouse or beacon. The church is listed as a historic monument. Collioure is a small town depicted by many artists in the 20th century, on the Vermilion Coast near the Spanish border. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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