39/40.- Bucharest, Paris, where art thou?

Caryatids, Renaissance motifs, small and large columns, everything about this particular building seems to indicate that it belongs to the French Beaux-Arts tradition. The fact that it's in a Bucharest setting only seems to indicate that it's not so much the location that makes a house glorious, but the actual worth of the design. It's more likely to be noticed and admired here, where no house ever looks like another, than in Paris where the strict regulations imposed on those who wanted to build gave it a more uniform, organised but also more homogenous aspect whereas here no particular style seems to prevail.

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