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The front of a tall coral-stone house with stacked wooden lattice bays, shuttered windows and a lattice parapet against a strip of sky.
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No. 15 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeThe front of a tall coral-stone house with stacked wooden lattice bays, shuttered windows and a lattice parapet against a strip of sky.

What it meansThe tower houses of old Jeddah were faced with tiers of roshan windows, which shaded the walls and drew breezes through every floor.

Where it worksSuits a hallway, office or dining room where a structured image is wanted.

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A diamond-patterned patch of light folding across the corner where a plaster wall meets the floor.CornerNo. 16
Three shadows of the same small star screen on a sunlit wall, leaning one way, then upright, then the other.HoursNo. 17
A panelled cedar door with a turned lattice transom in a pale wall, crossed by the patterned shadow of a window above.Lattice DoorNo. 18
One narrow strip of beaded light crossing a dark floor from a slender lattice slit.Single ShaftNo. 19
Light from a pointed-arch lattice window stretched across a dark floor, with a star pattern in the arch and turned lattice below.ArchNo. 20
A long panel of patterned sunlight lying at a slant across a plain plaster floor, thrown by a two-leaf lattice window with a star transom above.Afternoon FloorNo. 1
A close view of a turned-bead lattice seen from inside, its balls and spindles dark against a bright afternoon sky.Turned LatticeNo. 2
A carved wooden panel of eight-point stars and crosses standing proud of a sunlit wall, its shadow and points of light falling beside it.Star and CrossNo. 3

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