Correct: one also needs some butter and a glass of wine.

A close-up of the detailed stonework at the top.

We’re back … and we have lots of strange and wonderful doors for the coming year.

An arch of leaves.

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.

Two inscriptions flanking yesterday’s door.
No. 2: Additional information.

Two inscriptions flanking yesterday’s door.
No. 1: Essential information.

The battle between modernity and monumentality (1925).

The door that goes with yesterday’s devil.

The devil in the details.

Egg and Dart detail.

Egg and Dart in the Gründerzeit.

Detail from yesterday’s door.

Corner grandeur.

Exotic windows over the lintel (from the same Siedlung as the previous door).

Detail from a door in the same Siedlung as yesterday’s door.

Door and non-door.

The detail from yesterday’s door features some vicious birds attacking a snake flanked by the heads of two sleeping kings. Perhaps…

An inconspicuous entrance.

Owl detail.

A pair of owls preside over yesterday’s door.

Liven up your Altbau with some tobacco-coloured seventies tiles.

A triangular cap.

A triangular cap.

Beautiful!

Guard lion.

Detail from yesterday’s door: there is a lot of symbolism to unpack here…

In the world of Berlin doors, there is no such thing as ‘too much’…

Detail from yesterday’s door.