Architecture, Painstakingly Rendered In Watercolor

Bernd H. Dams and Andrew Zega, principals in the Parisian atelier Architectural Watercolors, are architectural and garden historians who also come about to be professional at rendering stupefyingly detailed watercolors of buildings—the culmination of painstakingly performed analysis.

“As most buildings we depict are either destroyed or have been severely altered, we start with period documents…all offered info is weighed and sifted, then synthesized in initial sketches.” In collaboration with the New York stationery business Libretto Group, a choice of their watercolors, depicting a series of fanciful pagodas, has been translated into a set of whimsical note cards.

Images: Architectural Digest