It's been a great deal of fun having Nowhere at the Portico, thankful to have been part of Brick by brick! - photos taken last Saturday which was the last weekend of the exhibition.

The Portico's next exhibition & programmes, Dining In, will be a deliciously exciting feast. Watch @porticolibrary space for more updates and sign up to their newsletter for upcoming events.

But first and foremost, this Saturday 10/06 the library will host a Pathway to Publishing series of talks, workshops and activities that will be a real treat not just to those interestes in publishing but to all books lovers. Please come along if you are in Manchester!

Soon after John Y. Brown, Jr. was elected governor of Kentucky, he and his wife, sportscaster Phyllis George, discovered Cave Hill Place, a romantic antebellum mansion in Lexington. With the assistance of R. Wayne Jenkins, the home, built in 1821 by a nephew of Patrick Henry, was totally renovated and decorated in a matter of six short weeks. Lofty pink oaks and maples provide shade for the neo-Federal style residence; its Georgian portico was a 1916 addition.

Celebrity Homes II, 1981

The Portico of a Country Mansion by Hubert Robert

Lord Portico's eldest daughter.

Reread @neil-gaiman's Neverwhere for the first time in... maybe a decade? and have been trying to experiment with different rendering methods, so I thought I'd use Door as a guinea pig. I'd die happy if I could design this show for the stage someday.

My scanner isn't too fond of the fluorescent paints and metallics, so the bottom two are phone pics!

Entrada de la Catedral de Oviedo, Asturias, ESPAÑA

Another beautiful and rare Maurice (1987) production still from the forthcoming 2023 documentary Merchant Ivory [x].

There are other rarely seen b/w stills of Maurice and Alec at the British Museum, but I don’t believe I’d seen this particular shot before. For another, see @oscarwetnwilde’s recent post.

The documentary itself does not seem to have a release date yet. But there’s a wonderful extended taster (the source of this shot) on the director’s Vimeo [x], plus a newer/shorter 2023 trailer via his website [x].

Luigi Moretti, Villa La Saracena, Santa Marinella, Italy, 1957 ph. Emiliano and Lorenzo Zandri | ZA² VS Henri Labrouste, The Pantheon, Rome | Capital and base of a column of the portico, 1825-1830

July 16, 2023

Check out the size of that portico.

that’s it, I’m architecture shaming

Look at all these beautiful stuff! Please come if you are in Manchester! 

The Los Angeles House, 1995

Portico of a Monastery by Giovanni Migliara

Upper Part of the Great Portico, Esna by Francis Bedford

English, dated March 15, 1862

albumen print mounted on card

Royal Collection Trust

Under The Porticos, (Summer 2023) Turin, Italy

Copyright @aliaslittlewilliam

Option to trust Bo: *appears*

Me: *violently hits this option*

Option to tell Bo about tattoos: *app-*

Me: *has already clicked this option*