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Traditional windcatchers and earthen domes at Shish Badgiri in Yazd, Iran — Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized.

Andrea Pozzo's illusionistic painted ceiling in the Church of Sant'Ignazio, Rome

A stack of old leather-bound books photographed by Chris Lawton

An American tie-on pocket, circa 1784, embroidered with red and yellow flowers

An eighteenth-century Japanese Chūjō Noh mask with painted brows and an open mouth

Panoramic view across Fez el-Bali from Borj Sud — Photo: Hiroki Ogawa, CC BY 3.0, resized.

The monumental main hall of Antwerp Central Station, Belgium. — Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized

Paint pots, brushes and accumulated working materials in Francis Bacon’s reconstructed studio — Photo: Hjamesberglen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped

Curved bentwood backrest and woven cane seat of a Thonet No. 14 chair — Photo: Henry Townsend · Free Art License 1.3

Models walk along an illuminated runway between rows of seated spectators. — Photo: Andrew Schutzman, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Resized with side borders

White marble basins and a central stone platform beneath the vaulted ceiling of Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hammam in Istanbul. — Photo: Satayman, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized with side borders

Colourful hillside houses and a church tower in Valparaíso, with the sea visible beyond the buildings.

The sweeping timber-clad facade of Helsinki Central Library Oodi

The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, its vaulted ceiling painted deep blue and scattered with gold stars above Giotto's frescoes — Photo: Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0

A 1956 Braun SK4 radio-phonograph with white steel body, clear lid and pale wooden side panels

Close-up of Japanese boro textile: overlapping patches of faded indigo cotton joined with sashiko stitches — Photo: Karl Zetterström, Statens museer för världskultur · CC BY 4.0

Shelves of colourful handmade zines beneath a paper bunting that spells ZINES

The Sassi of Matera lit at dusk above the Gravina ravine — Photo: Rocco Scattino · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sunlight entering the Pantheon through its circular oculus, surrounded by the coffered dome — Photo: Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

Claude Monet's Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), two grainstacks in a sunlit field

Black overhead station sign reading Grand Army Plaza in white Helvetica on a New York subway platform — Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0

The Sex Pistols performing at Paradiso in Amsterdam in January 1977, photographed in black and white.

A woman preparing handmade corn tortillas with a wooden press in Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico — Photo: ElsaAFlores · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped and resized

A narrow Lisbon street lined with blue-and-white tiled facades and patterned stone paving

The exposed-concrete terraces and towers of London’s National Theatre. — Photo: Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized

Michelangelo's unfinished Atlas Slave emerging from a rough block of marble in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence — Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna, CC BY-SA 3.0

Historic lithographic printing presses and a demonstration at the Musée de l’imprimerie de Bordeaux — Photo: William Ellison, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

Tasha Tilberg wearing a flowing black and red Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2018 runway look, shown full length — Photo: Christopher Macsurak, CC BY 2.0 · Resized with side borders

People reading newspapers and talking over coffee in a historic European coffeehouse with marble tables and velvet banquettes

A passenger ferry crosses the water below Galata Tower and Istanbul’s waterfront skyline.

An open courtyard at Bahia Palace in Marrakech, with white arches, patterned tiles and a central fountain beneath a blue sky.

Chicago skyline seen from beneath Cloud Gate, with the sculpture's mirrored steel curving into the frame and reflecting visitors — Photo: Roman Boed.jpg), CC BY 2.0

A black spring-balanced articulated desk lamp on an oak desk, its springs, jointed arms and domed shade lit by soft daylight

A beige trench coat on a hanger beside a folded white T-shirt and indigo jeans on a wooden bench

Sweeping white architectural interior with broad stairs and daylight

The Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City at dusk, its golden dome lit against a deep blue sky — Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0

Interior of a converted brick industrial hall with iron trusses, arched windows and a contemporary glass-and-steel insertion

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