These people are getting life SO right. (Some decent literature in there!) #latergram #books #cuteness #libraries
Gustav Klimt : The complete paintings
An amazing cover for this new book published by the great Taschen publishing company : “Klimt : the complete paintings”, 676 pages, only 150€ for this exhaustive monography of the Viennese artist… This year, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, so this book is a also a celebration of Klimt, who died in 1918. Klimt painted 230 art work, among them 54 landscapes. His golden paintings were inspired by the mosaics in Ravenne (Italy).
Tobias G. Natter is the author of this big book. He studied art history and history at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna. Since October 2011 he has been the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. His extensive publications and his conception and organization of exhibitions on the theme of “Vienna around 1900” have made him an internationally acknowledged expert on Viennese art at the turn of the century.
Quiero ese libro YA :)
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I didn’t buy it, but this would have filled a lore hole I didn’t even know I had.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Looks like this might be a First, if there are any collectors out there.
MYSTERIOUS TINY ROOMS BY MARC GIAI-MINIET
French artist Marc Giai-Miniet (Born in 1946 in Trappes) makes some of the most incredibly detailed (and disturbing!) dollhouses that we’ve ever seen. Marc started creating these disturbing shadowbox dioramas rather late in his career, recurring themes include libraries, furnaces, laboratories, submarines and intestine-like tubing in lonely, decaying spaces.
Click through, but be prepared to disappear for a while…
Actual GPOY
need to read this
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Orrie Hitt is obviously my new favourite name.
From our colleagues in the UK, a bold new cover for George Orwell’s 1984. (via Kottke)
I want to go to there
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making my newest book set, one for each month
The holidays are coming, and my friend Wendy’s handmade books are a seriously fucking perfect gift idea. She makes lots of different ones, so peep her tumblr and place your order to support artisan handcrafts and the rad people keeping olde-tyme knowledge alive. (This is not a paid advertisement, she’s just my friend and I think more people should buy her beautiful books!)
Waist Not: Migration of the Waist 1800-1960
Our New Clothes: Acquisitions of the 1990s
Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress
Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
The Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of Eighteenth Century Costume
Skull sculpture made from books by Artist Maskull Lasserre.
WHY WOULD YOU RUIN PERFECTLY GOOD BOOKS
Yes, how dare someone ruin literary classics like, “Internet Explorer 4 in Action” and ‘Database Developer’s Guide”
-cracks up-
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