{"id":3100,"date":"2008-05-09T02:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/09\/elizabetes-iela-10b-riga\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T03:31:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:31:57","slug":"elizabetes-iela-10b-riga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/09\/elizabetes-iela-10b-riga\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabetes Iela 10b, Riga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Riga_-_Elizabetes_Iela_10b%2C_1903.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/riga1.jpg\" alt=\"riga1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paris and Brussels are well-known centres of Art Nouveau architecture, less well-known but equally valuable is the Latvian capital of Riga whose historic centre is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldheritagesite.org\/sites\/riga.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Heritage Site<\/a>. The highly distinctive building at Elizabetes Iela 10b is one of a number of buildings there designed by Mikhail Eisenstein, father of film director Sergei Eisenstein. The giant decorative heads are quite unique, and I also like the peacock and other mascarons. One can&#8217;t help but think that this fa\u00e7ade\u2014in a street full of equally detailed fa\u00e7ades\u2014would have sustained a lot more attention had it been built in a European capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Rigaartnouveau1.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/riga2.jpg\" alt=\"riga2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Riga_-_Elizabetes_Iela_10b%2C_detail_2.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/riga3.jpg\" alt=\"riga3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/05\/atelier-elvira\/\">Atelier Elvira<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/30\/louis-bonniers-exposition-dreams\/\">Louis Bonnier\u2019s exposition dreams<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/20\/the-maison-lavirotte\/\">The Maison Lavirotte<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/10\/02\/the-house-with-chimaeras\/\">The House with Chimaeras<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris and Brussels are well-known centres of Art Nouveau architecture, less well-known but equally valuable is the Latvian capital of Riga whose historic centre is now a World Heritage Site. The highly distinctive building at Elizabetes Iela 10b is one of a number of buildings there designed by Mikhail Eisenstein, father of film director Sergei &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/09\/elizabetes-iela-10b-riga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elizabetes Iela 10b, Riga&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,58,51,4],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-nouveau","category-cities","category-design","tag-peacocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-O0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}