Links We Love – What We’re Reading This Week—January 23, 2015

1. Curbed features 12 images by photographer Christian Richter of stunning staircases from abandoned mansions across Europe.

2. Very Short List showcases four innovative and buzzed-about designers to watch in 2015.

3. This Is Colossal highlights a sensational project by Zsanett Szirmay that turns intricate folk embroidery patterns into music.

4. Design*Sponge tours the West Village studio of renowned illustrator Maira Kalman.

5. Wired bites into architecturally inspired chocolates devised by Japanese design studio Nendo.

6. Decorators Tracy Dishman and Leigh Poindexter share six pointers for revamping a space with PopSugar Home.

7. Remodelista rounds up 11 of Italy’s most idyllic farmhouses to rent for a relaxing retreat.

8. Design Taxi provides a lesson in early-20th-century movie-theater etiquette with a series of cinema posters from 1912.

What have you been reading this week? Tweet your links to @archdigest.