"The Castel Béranger is a residential building with thirty-six apartments located at 14 rue de la Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by the architect Hector Guimard, and built between 1895 and 1898. It was the first residence in Paris built in the style known as Art Nouveau."
Was doing some re-reading of my bookmarks today and went delusional :] More Skybridger doodles!!
(this time with context cause the fic that prompted this was rlly good) https://archiveofourown.org/works/53023297 Someone To Call Mine by TapeMonkey21
The building is dedicated to Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, as the actual building is part of the president's office and is used as a residence for official and diplomatic ceremonies 🇺🇦
I finally finished this house after several rebuilds. No matter how hard I tried, the list of additional materials did not become much smaller. Rather less scattered. But do not be afraid: I divided the entire CC into 2 parts - for the facade and the interior. So if you don't need every detail, you can download just the exterior decoration part and furnish the house however you like. If a particular detail from the screenshots caught your eye - I will gladly share the link.
You might not hear it, but the alien plants from the Get to Work expansion make fantastic sounds, adding to the magical atmosphere.
I changed the back of the facade a bit because I wanted to place this building in Glimmerbrook, while the original building is much larger than lot I used for the house.
Of course, the sculptures only very remotely resemble the original ones. But I think the overall silhouette looks pretty similar if you think of the whole house as one sculpture.
The interior can also only remotely resemble the real one, solely due to its whimsicality.
Today, one of the halls of the building is used for face-to-face diplomatic meetings in light blue tones with Chinese motifs - the "Chinese" room. But you can use it as a dining room.
The exterior of the house is fully matched by its interiors with artistic paintings, marble, stucco decoration, wood carvings, and inlays. The fireplaces of the famous German company Mason are of great artistic value. There are spiral staircases, hunting-themed stained glass windows, and polygonal halls.
The free planning uses the principle of functional interconnection of isolated groups of rooms (halls, residential, utility), which is characteristic of luxurious residences of the beginning of the 20th century (when the house was built).
The architect of the building, Vladyslav Horodetskyi, is a unique and mysterious personality. In addition to his admiration for architecture, he also loved hunting. Therefore, perhaps he decorated the facade with his own dreams for himself for his 40th birthday.
Floor plans, more screenshots, additional info and DOWNLOAD here (always free).
The Memento Mori Collection is an assortment of nature-inspired woodcut prints from Dutch artist Julie de Graag.
I came across her work while looking at public domain images and thought they would look cool in TS4. Enjoy 7 striking swatches of art nouveau reproduction prints for only §120 each!
More info and download after the cut
About This Set
This is a recolor and upscale of a base game painting. I found and edited some public domain artworks from the artist Julie de Graag starting with the eponymous skull piece, Memento Mori, and built this collection around that, choosing artwork that fit the same ratio and worked well with the other art I'd selected.
About The Art
The featured works were created between 1916-1920. Julie de Graag is most well known for her art nouveau style woodcuts which she produced using end grain, a timber difficult to work with which produces much cleaner prints. Julie’s life was marred by illness and, due to her fragile state, she often stayed with her parents in The Hague. In the early 1920’s her physical and mental health deteriorated to the point where she could no longer teach. Her declining mental health was reflected in her work which became increasingly morbid.