The love of mosaics

My friend Paul Spain posted me a series of pictures from Sachin Tendulkar's new home that included this wonderful handbasin

Which is wonderful on a number of fronts. Firstly it has mosaics and you can almost never go wrong with mosaics. It reminds me of Gaudi and his side kick Joseph Jujol who was actually responsible for the mosaics at Gaudi's famous Park Guell

Underneath the upper deck is an underground grotto with a famous undulating mosaic ceiling with these glorious mosiacs ceiling roses

Jujol was also responsible for some wonderful eccentric Catalan Art Nouveau buildings

Then there is Gaudi's famous dragon water sculpture which brings me back to the other wonderful aspects of handbasin that started this all off - the play of water in buildings

There was a bank HQ built in Amsterdam in the mid 1980's (the NMB Bank Building now ING) that had a lovely water feature incorporated into one of the handrails. This is the only photo however that I can find of it. Even though it is a rubbish photo, if you look closely you maybe able to get a bit of idea of what the handrail looked like

Despite the crap photo I think that water can be wonderful thing to play with in the design of a building