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This week’s photos of numbers selection is a sneak preview of my upcoming post on Alvar Aalto’s house and studio, because that’s where all three of these numbers were spotted…
…the two number 20s are both his house number – one from the wall outside and one from the door itself. And the A16 was spotted in his studio – I think it was a case for an architectural model.
Have a fabulously geeky weekend!
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