A Chicago house designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1885-86 for John and Frances Glessner and completed in 1887, its rusticated granite walls turned against Prairie Avenue and its rooms opened inward to a courtyard. Derided by neighbours and admired by Sullivan and Wright, it is a National Historic Landmark and a house museum with most of its original furniture.
A country house in the Krajna region of northern Poland, held by the Komierowski family: a single-storey Baroque manor of 1680, rebuilt as a pseudo-Gothic palace around 1900 by Wiktor Stabrowski, then extended between 1924 and 1929 by Stanisław Cybichowski into the neo-Baroque house that stands today. The complex is a protected monument in a large park.
A Lincolnshire cinema opened in September 1922, converted by Major C. C. Allport from a concert pavilion built out of the remains of the Victoria Hotel’s sports pavilion. It projects from behind a transparent screen and is the only fully functioning cinema in the United Kingdom still using back projection.
A Newcastle cinema opened on 1 February 1937 as the News Theatre, built for the exhibitor Dixon Scott to designs by George Bell, with an interior in an ancient Persian manner and mosaic foyer floors. Grade II listed in 2000, it is the only British news theatre still operating as a cinema.
A black and white ‘Old English’ house near Wolverhampton, built in 1887 and extended in 1893 by Edward Ould for the paint manufacturer Theodore Mander, and furnished with Morris & Co. textiles, Charles Kempe glass and William De Morgan tiles. Given to the National Trust with its contents in 1937 and Grade I listed.
The Water House in Walthamstow, a Grade II* listed Georgian house where William Morris lived from 1848 to 1856, given to the public with ten acres by Frank Lloyd in 1900 and opened as a gallery in 1950. It holds the national collection devoted to Morris, his firm and his circle, and admission is free.
The Kensington home of the Punch illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) and his wife Marion, decorated from 1875 in the Aesthetic manner with William Morris wallpapers, sunflower stained glass and blue-and-white porcelain, and left substantially unchanged. Grade II* listed, opened to the public in 1980 and owned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea since 1989.
A Prague hotel of 1904-1907 beside the Municipal House, designed by Jan Vejrych in a mixture of Gothic Revival and early Secession, with café and restaurant interiors by Antonín Pfeiffer and external ceramic mosaics by the painter Jano Köhler. Declared a cultural monument in 1984 and within the UNESCO-listed historic centre.
A Dijon cinema built on the ruins of a workers’ dance hall, permitted in October 1919 and opened in July 1920, with an Art Deco facade carrying classical borrowings. The front was inscribed as a monument historique in August 1986; the house still runs as an independent art-house cinema with three screens and 408 seats.
A Parisian bouillon of 1896 near the Grands Boulevards, opened by Frédéric and Camille Chartier and built by the architect Jean-Marie Bouvier: one tall room for about 350 people under an Art Nouveau glass ceiling, with carved panelling, mirrors and the brass racks where regulars kept their napkins. Listed as a monument historique in 1989.
