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This week's Good Things enjoys the view through the finest of fenestration

It was Bill Gates who once famously said ‘Everyone loves windows’ and we’re inclined to agree. Now that spring is here, one can open their curtains to the world with a little more confidence. So this week's Good Things celebrates the finest of fenestration, inspiring you to look up, open up and enjoy the view.

Jose Guizar meticulously draws the windows of New York on a weekly basis, taking in their vast array of shape and colour. The results are not only attractive but will heighten your own awareness of the glass portals in your city.

Josef Albers and Frank Lloyd Wright both turned the notion of stained glass windows on its head. Using their trademark grids and palettes they created windows which were architectural feats in their own right.

Sinziana Velicescu has a penchant for a door or window, her portfolio is a cocktail of colour ways which you will want to inhabit.

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