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Portugal, 1956. Edouard Boubat. Gelatin silver.

Amarillo, Texas | Casey Niccoli

Notting Hill Carnival, 1970’s

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1915 c. Mother and laughing child. From the Nebraska Collections, Nebraska State Historical Society.

Vintage Pair Of Wooden Dining Chair with Green Leather, Funky Dining Chairs, Mid Century, Made in Yugoslavia

Unknown group | mid century Japan

a small quilt for my inner child. my first time doing hand applique and hand quilting!

Maya Beaudry, Childhood Home, 2024, Digital pigment print on cotton, 33 x 51 x 3 in.

Panels by Oregon sculptor Leroy Setziol

Young-Ji Cha

christi verklärung // köln heimersdorf

architect: josef lehmbrock

completion: 1966

a small gem of cologne's post-war modernist church architecture can be found in heimersdorf. it has a cruciform floor plan and is clad in panels in various shades of anthracite. the monumental rose window is the building's outstanding feature. unfortunately, construction work was underway when i visited, so i was unable to see the interior.

eine kleine perle des nachkriegsmodernen kölner kirchenbaues befindet sich in heimersdorf. sie besitzt einen kreuzförmigen grundriss und ist mit platten in verschiedenen anthrazitschattierungen verkleidet. die monumentale fensterrosette ist das herausragende merkmal des bauwerkes. bei meinem besuch fanden leider bauarbeiten statt so das ich das innere nicht besuchen konnte.

Administration of the company Bacardi (1957-61) near Mexico City, Mexico, by Mies van der Rohe. Photo by Balthazar Korab.

Bunch of violets brooch by Leitão & Irmão, 1940s

19.2kt yellow gold and platinum, enamel and diamonds. Leitão & Irmão are the Portuguese crown jeweller.

Fishway, Hokkaido

Headquarters of the French Communist Party, Paris. Oscar Niemeyer.

A jewel box of a book ✨ This 19th century French sales sample book contains very thin metal ornaments, made of foil over card. These would have been used like fancy sequins, and adorned everything from cards to clothes! They’re sometimes called Dresdens after the town in Germany where many were made. I know I say this a lot, but this book really floored me 🤩 Part of col. 838 in the Winterthur Library 📚

Convento Casa Raina do Mundo (1961-63) in Gouveia, Portugal, by Ernst van Dorp

courtney love performing at reading festival , 1994 ₊ ˚ ⊹ ♡

Hanky Panky (1980) by Patrick Angus (1953-1992). The American realist artist produced keenly observed and compassionate depictions of the 1980s gay demimonde. His work captures, with sympathy, understanding, and wit, the longing and loneliness of many urban gay men of the era.

Actress Machiko Kyô, Japan, 1951. Werner Bischof. Gelatine silver print.

“There’s two major schools of European existentialism of the twentieth century: there’s the French school of Camus and Sartre and there’s the Anglo Saxon school of Monty Python. […] In the French school there is this discussion of the absurdity of existence and the pointlessness of everything and it’s all rather serious and sombre. In Monty Python it’s exactly the same thing and you just laugh at it.”

— Julian Baggini, Philosopher