super tiny town!!

Window display in town, so great.

1800's Album Pages Braided Mourning Hair Scherenschnitte Filigree Paper

Sold! for $182.50.

hong kong windows

Hong Kong Report for the Year 1961, Hong Kong Government Press, 1962.

Detail.

han bennink

the jazz drummer who makes music out of everything! via fresh air/ npr.

froebel fascination

Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, Abrahms, 1997

My new book arrived: !!! This is Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, about Friederich Froebel (1782-1852), the inventor of kindergarten. I'm reading it cover to cover and it is ridiculously fascinating. The program taught spiritual unity demonstrated through principles of art, mathematics, design, and natural science. You can see how the seeds of what was to become Modernism were planted in original kindergarten students like a wee Frank Lloyd Wright. Traces of the original kindergarten remain in public education today, but we all know how that ended up.For more information/ inspiration, see:

http://www.brosterman.com/kindergarten.shtml

http://www.flickr.com/photos/orihouse/859284808/in/photostream/

http://www.uppercasegallery.ca/uppercase-journal/2008/6/23/old-school-research.html

http://theiff.org/oexhibits/kindy01.html

If you live in the NY area, more is coming your way: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1239

Wow, one more:

Vasily Kandinsky’s Composition 8 from 1923, recreated with kindergarten gifts number 7 (paper parquetry), 8 (sticks), 9 (rings), 14 (weaving), 15 (slats), and 16 (jointed slats).

From Cabinet: "Froebel and the Gifts of Kindergarten"

four years and a million spiders

"The four metre long woven textile was made from the silk of more than a million female Golden Orb spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar. The hand-woven brocaded textile is naturally golden in colour and took over four years to create. It will be shown together with a new gold cape, woven and embroidered in Madagascar, which will go on public display for the very first time at the V & A." 

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/26/spider-silk-cape-by-simon-peers-and-nicholas-godley/

DESK UNIT

Vintage 1989. Oh honey if you were there, you know what I am talking about!