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Arachne

‘Under the Spider’ (“Pod pająkiem”) – perhaps Kraków’s most bizarre building and Teodor Talowski’s personal residence. At the corner of Karmelicka and Batory streets, ‘Under the Spider’ was built in 1889 and features Talowski’s signature asymmetry and irregular stone and brick work, as well as special channels in the facade for woodbines and wild grapes to take hold and a winged dragon under an inscription of the architect’s name. Meeting at a forty-five degree angle the building possesses two peaked facades, the one which overlooks Karmelicka street being the site of Talowski’s most imaginative, if not eccentric work. At the top of his home, Talowski placed a large porthole with a bronze web and attendant spider at its centre; directly below the porthole is a bronze sun and below that a sundial. The symbolism Talowski has woven here is lost on us.

(via buonosoldato)