Tbilisi collection – Gates, Porch canopy, Stairs, Grille

This is not a scientific work, in which the sociocultural situation of Tbilisi at the end of the 20th century, its architectural aspects are discussed in detail...
This is not an artistic album, where works made with highly professional photo techniques are collected...
Just imagine a publication similar to a restaurant menu, which offers, like spicy dishes, the architectural parts of the historical buildings of Tbilisi in the 19th century...
A wide range of flavors and aromas unfolds in front of you, which represents an unusual, unrepeatable mixture of eastern-western, southern and northern architectural components coming from the depths of time and space... Seeing a small fragment of the city’s architecture logically arouses in the observant mind the desire to find out what this fragment is, its purpose, The history of the origin... we follow the movement from details to the general to the desire to explain Tbilisi of the turn of the century as a sociocultural phenomenon...
“Tbilisi collection” is a kind of catalog of architectural details of residential houses, rarely, public purpose buildings, which are the main constituent part of Tbilisi’s architectural environment of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, which includes valuable fragments of the buildings of the old part of the city.
This catalog is ultimately based on the author’s subjective perception and taste, and therefore makes no claim to perfection.
I really hope that the placement of visual information according to the principle of the right-left bank of Mtkvari and indicating the address of each fragment will facilitate the further search for interested persons...
I dedicate this book to all those people who inspired me with their life, love of Tbilisi and high professionalism and gave me an incentive to create this collection.
The list of these people includes my parents, my friends, my teachers from the Academy of Arts and colleagues who died prematurely.