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Haus des Lehrers Mosaic

The Haus des Lehrers tower in East Berlin features a wrap-around mosaic entitled Unser Leben. See the whole thing here.

Roman Deer

Mosaic fawn uncovered at Uzès, France. Source.

The Madness of Heracles

The Madness of Heracles in mosaic form in the Villa Torre de Palma, Portugal. See here for more antiquities from Roman Lusitania.

Hare and Hound

At the Royal Ontario Museum.

The House of the Faun

Mosaic from the House of the Faun at Pompeii. See more.

And How Many Quills a Porcupine's Got

Read about the mosaic makers of Hackney at Spitalfields Life. This menagerie seems to have been pre-selected by Flanders and Swann.

She Made No Reply, Up Her Mind, And a Dash for the Door

Roman mosaic from the Gazaentep Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Turkey. Zeugma.

Schooner

Tory Building Mosaic Close-Ups

The Vertical Mosaic, Mount Allison

This remnant of the age when social scientists ruled the earth is located at the back entrance of the Avard-Dixon Building at Mount Allison. Some elite really must have fought to preserve this bit of 1950s modernism, seemingly based on a dream of bar graphs, for it to have survived the facilities beautification campaign of the turn of the millennium. The more angular be-bop-inspired designs at the front entrances of Hunton, Bigelow and Bennett Houses did not make it into the present day. Does this mosaic look like a shower room floor tilted on its side? Pretty much. But its cyan, yellow, and orange offer a visual break from the red and grey sandstone uniform worn by the rest of the university, and, bonus, it helps remind us of the writings of Canadian sociologist John Porter. Douglas