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Doors of Berlin

@doorsofberlin.bsky.social
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The ornate decoration and arcane iconography of doors in Berlin. From the people who brought you @berlintypography.

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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Correct: one also needs some butter and a glass of wine.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
A close-up of the detailed stonework at the top.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
We’re back … and we have lots of strange and wonderful doors for the coming year.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
An arch of leaves.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Time to cleanse the palate with some post-war modernism. That diagonal bar – which appears on numerous mid-century Berlin doors – is an unheralded design classic.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Two inscriptions flanking yesterday’s door. No. 2: Additional information.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Two inscriptions flanking yesterday’s door. No. 1: Essential information.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
The battle between modernity and monumentality (1925).
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
The door that goes with yesterday’s devil.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
The devil in the details.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Egg and Dart detail.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Egg and Dart in the Gründerzeit.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Detail from yesterday’s door.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Corner grandeur.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Exotic windows over the lintel (from the same Siedlung as the previous door).
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Detail from a door in the same Siedlung as yesterday’s door.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Door and non-door.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
The detail from yesterday’s door features some vicious birds attacking a snake flanked by the heads of two sleeping kings. Perhaps…
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
An inconspicuous entrance.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Owl detail.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
A pair of owls preside over yesterday’s door.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Liven up your Altbau with some tobacco-coloured seventies tiles.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
A triangular cap.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
A triangular cap.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Beautiful!
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Guard lion.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Detail from yesterday’s door: there is a lot of symbolism to unpack here…
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
In the world of Berlin doors, there is no such thing as ‘too much’…
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Detail from yesterday’s door.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
A touch of neo-classicism in the first flourish of modernity.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Lives of the great philosophers, or: detail from the House of Heads.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
The house of heads.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Detail of the relief above yesterday’s door.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
The keystone head.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
[continued…] We’ll also be posting doors and details on Instagram, so feel free to join us over there: t.co/TV1S76zuyi We hope you’ll enjoy this voyage of discovery.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
[continued…] The second post will feature an architectural or iconographic detail from the door (see below). The decorative imagery of Berlin doors can be arcane, but if you have any idea what it all means, feel free to reply.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Welcome to Doors of Berlin. Our goal is to provide you with the best – and strangest – doors Berlin has to offer, from Gründerzeit to PoMo. We’ll be posting two or three times a week, and many posts will consist of two parts. The first post will be an overview of the door:
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Doors of Berlin, an investigation into the strange world of Berlin’s building entrances, will begin tomorrow.
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Doors of Berlin @doorsofberlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Coming soon…
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