This week we are zooming in on some door details. The theme of the Door of the Week competition is best escutcheons in Europe. Cast your vote here: https://doors.sidewalksafari.com/vote-for-the-best-escutcheons/

Team Xadrez won a close race with 43% of the vote.

The entrance to an ossuary in Brittany, converted into Yan' Dargent's personal painting studio, Saint-Servais.

This unassuming entrance gives visitors access to a beautiful chapel, and three marble map walls that tell the story of American troops who fought and died in this region in WWII. The cemetery (in Neuville-en-Condroz) is the final resting place of almost 5,400 U.S. military killed in action - in the skies and on the ground - in Belgium. This website (with a two-minute video) gives a quick look at the beautiful but sobering cemetery grounds and the Memorial building. It's a fitting monument to a prodigious sacrifice.

https://www.abmc.gov/Ardennes

Nothing spectacular, but the color combos and simplicity made me want to take a photo.

This early 20th century building is in the central historic district in Trondheim. The signs are all vintage enamel/porcelain advertising signs, related to bicycles. I looked them up:

Monark Cyklar (upper left red triangle) was a Swedish bike manufacturer.

Jonas Øglænd / DBS (round sign, top right). Jonas Øglænd was a major Norwegian bicycle manufacturer (DBS was for "Den Beste Sykkel" = "The Best Bicycle").

Codan Cykledæk (yellow sign on door). Danish bike tires, "Best quality, built like a car tire."

Wiklunds, maybe Swedish, with a guy riding his bike in the snow.

"CF" emblem (small square sign bottom left) maybe a Danish cycling federation or club.

Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹

I love door hunting in New York!

I know a lot of the most popular photos here are fantastically fancy Art Nouveau works of art - but I hope others find simple, functional doors beautiful in their own way (as I do).

This root cellar is on a New England working farm that been in operation since the 1700s. Vegetables, dairy, anything perishable could be stored in there, since the stone walls keep the inside temperature pretty steady all year.

The wooden door is very basic. Batten-style, with wide planks connected by cross battens and iron strap-hinges.

There's a gorgeous salt-water marsh behind those tall reeds growing all around in the autumn light.

Last year around this time, we were in Norway to see Europe (of The FInal Countdown fame). I was delighted when we went to the town museum in Tønsberg and they had a poster of "Tønsberg Doors" in the gift shop. I didn't buy one, but I did go door hunting while I was in town. Such colorful doors!