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Slovenia

The island, ringed by waves …
behind it stand the giants of the snows;
Bled Castle on the left, and on the right
hill hides behind hill.
Carniola has no lovelier place than this,
with all around it—an image of paradise.

France Prešeren Baptism at the Savica (1836), translated for blonde.travel
The Jože Plečnik 1872–1957 jacket by Damjan Prelovšek: a dark bronze urn on a carved stone pedestal above a curving staircase, in warm light against a pale arched wall.

For your coffee table

Jože Plečnik

Architectura Perennis

Yale University Press

Damjan Prelovšek follows Plečnik from Vienna and Prague Castle home to Ljubljana, the city his buildings still shape, in rich colour photographs.

Cloth hardcover with dust jacket · colour and black-and-white photographs

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A colour plate of Plečnik’s Church of the Ascension in Bogojina, Slovenia: white arches spring from one squat dark column above wooden pews, with the organ loft beyond.

Some of my Instagram posts from Slovenia

Bled Island and its church reflected in the lake beneath mountains and Bled Castle.Olga holding a coffee cup beside Lake Bled at sunrise, with the island reflected in the water.