Washing dishes today, I scrubbed at the cookie jar we keep on the top of the cabinets. Being architects, our cookie jar is, of course, an architectural one... a white china replica of Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda.
I'd never noticed before - not while studying the drawings, not while visiting the building in Italy - but Palladio couldn't quiiiiite get enough headroom for his spiral stairs under his perfectly 4-way symmetrical roof design. He had to cheat a bit.
Look at the cookie jar roof!
Proof! Proof, I tell you! Even a genius struggles with getting the roof to work!
Villa Rotunda cookie jar / model - with Fallen-Over Tower of Pisa beyond
(Not that you can see his little oopsie in real life... and that's all that matters. Remember that!)
