Argorias Svartha

Illustrator · Worldbuilder · UX Designer · Future game dev. I build worlds from scratch and occasionally make them look good. Dark aesthetics

[soli @solisolsoli]

By Kensuke Koike

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Imagine building a house 548 years ago in France... and it's still standing today. This is Maison de Jeanne, a 15th-century house in France.

[Muse @xmuse_]

A single box can cost €20,000!

Used by Degas, Monet, and even Winston Churchill.

La Maison du Pastel is the world’s oldest pastel maker.

Founded in 1720 and they still handcraft in Paris today.

[Pasthetique @Pasthetique]

Not just a lamp—an illuminated masterpiece where art, nature, and craftsmanship shine as one.

[Bel @itsmebelb]

Dishonored 2

[Seascape Nature @SeascapeNature]

Bibury, England 🇬🇧

[soli @solisolsoli]

The fall of Icarus by René Milot

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

ANTWERP’S 1531 TRADE HALL

Opened in 1531, Antwerp’s Handelsbeurs is often described as the world’s first purpose-built commodity exchange.

Merchants from across Europe once met here to trade, negotiate and build the financial networks of the early modern world. The building later inspired other exchange halls, including London’s Royal Exchange.

The Neo-Gothic interior seen today is not the original 16th-century structure. After major fires and rebuilding, the current hall was completed in the 19th century — abandoned after the stock exchange closed in 1997, then restored and brought back to life as an events venue.

📸 @ isabelle_van_assche

[Yoann Lossel @YLossel]

You watched this map take shape for months.
Now it exists in the room: pressed into paper,
edged in gold, stamped by hand, numbered.

Mercator never kept his maps.
He drew them so others could cross.

Pre-order in bio. Until July 12.
https://t.co/h0sKP1eRyP

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

The Art Nouveau central staircase and iconic "Medusa" lamp inside the Ryabushinsky Mansion (also known as the Gorky House Museum) in Moscow, Russia.

[Frothy Friar @frothyfriar]

Friggin druids

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

Still Life with Oranges, by Rafael Romero Barros (1863)

[Yoann Lossel @YLossel]

You watched this map take shape for months.
Now it exists in the room: pressed into paper,
edged in gold, stamped by hand, numbered.

Mercator never kept his maps.
He drew them so others could cross.

Pre-order in bio. Until July 12.
https://t.co/h0sKP1eRyP

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

🎨🖌️🖼️
Hidden in a Parisian courtyard is La Maison du Pastel, the world's oldest pastel maker.

With a 300-year-old legacy of making pastels by hand, the shop served clients like Edgar Degas.
@MaisonPastelRP

[CityVibesX @earthviewss1]

France, this hidden gem in Grand Est is a monumental Gothic cathedral featuring over two thousand stone statues, a historic royal coronatior site, and spectacular thirteenth-century stained-glass windows.

[Sinnoware 451 @Sinnoware]

After laying off 17 people from Warren Spector's Argos team two weeks ago, OtherSide has laid off another 18 people from Thick as Thieves team. Fewer than 10 people remain to maintain Thick as Thieves, and there are "currently no plans for the studio to work on any future games".

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

A VICTORIAN HOUSE ON WHEELS

This is the Neverwas Haul — a three-story, self-propelled mobile art vehicle built to look like a Victorian house.

Designed by Shannon O’Hare and built by a volunteer crew in Berkeley in 2006, it was originally created for Burning Man. The structure measures about 24 feet long, 24 feet high and 12 feet wide, and was made largely from recycled materials.

Part house, part vehicle, part steampunk fantasy — it turns architecture into something that can actually move.