13 Secret Doors Around the World, for the Architecture and Art Lovers

Door styles and design. I bet you haven’t seen all these doors yet.

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius.

A door is a movable barrier that allows ingress and egress into an enclosure. The opening in the wall can be referred to as a “portal”. A door’s essential and primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the portal doorway. Wikipedia.

There are many kinds of doors, with different purposes.

The most common type is the single-leaf door, which consists of a single rigid panel that fills the doorway.

And there are many variations on this basic design, such as the double-leaf door. And a double door and French windows, which have two adjacent independent panels hinged on each side of the doorway.

Beautiful Door Styles around the world

1 — Ancient Roman wall painting.

This is not a real door. It’ a painting on wall.

It’s a Roman wall painting of an ornate door, in the Villa Boscoreale (Italy), from the 1st century AD.

Ornate door standing at the entrance of a fantastic villa.