some Chinoiserie in the Belvedere in Vienna, another Savoy palace. The family had a thing for chinoiserie and bestiaries (c. 1714)

Hi, @hakimboy.bsky.social nice to hear someone asking about Flusser! (I actually met him once in the year he died, but I was way too young to understand anything, at all). I would be very interested to chat! @bruces.bsky.social

... and our library has already got one. Nice to see them work in realtime :)

The contemporary designer vase inspired by Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia Universalis? (cc @bruces.bsky.social )

it is the week of the first UN General assembly since Covid. I appreciate the platform for political expression and seeing all the world's diplomats at my doorstep :)

Stift Lambach near Linz has one of the most beautiful libraries and the largest of those carousels I know. They call it "Lesemühle": https://www.stift-lambach.at/grosser-kleiner-bibliothekssaal/
(easy to visit while at Ars Electronica :)