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Rain and Flowers: Marthe Romme and the Art Déco...
In 1919, French designer Marthe Romme published a portfolio of fourteen pochoir lithographs illustrating the months of the French Republican Calendar. Two of them — Pluviôse, the month of rain,...
Rain and Flowers: Marthe Romme and the Art Déco...
In 1919, French designer Marthe Romme published a portfolio of fourteen pochoir lithographs illustrating the months of the French Republican Calendar. Two of them — Pluviôse, the month of rain,...
The Tree That Became a Book: Baobab and Beech i...
Two trees, one French encyclopaedia, and a story that spans continents. The baobab — ancient, colossal, sacred — and the beech, whose very name gave us the word for book....
The Tree That Became a Book: Baobab and Beech i...
Two trees, one French encyclopaedia, and a story that spans continents. The baobab — ancient, colossal, sacred — and the beech, whose very name gave us the word for book....
Charting the Heavens: Vintage Astronomical Educ...
A history of astronomical wall charts and educational diagrams — from Nicolas de Fer's 1705 baroque planisphere to Elias Colbert's 1869 star maps — tracing how print technology made the...
Charting the Heavens: Vintage Astronomical Educ...
A history of astronomical wall charts and educational diagrams — from Nicolas de Fer's 1705 baroque planisphere to Elias Colbert's 1869 star maps — tracing how print technology made the...
Colour from the Deep: Gustav von Hayek and the ...
In 1887, Austrian naturalist Gustav von Hayek contributed to one of the most ambitious zoological atlases of the century. The story of the fish plates that turned scientific observation into...
Colour from the Deep: Gustav von Hayek and the ...
In 1887, Austrian naturalist Gustav von Hayek contributed to one of the most ambitious zoological atlases of the century. The story of the fish plates that turned scientific observation into...
Silence Over the Marsh: Ohara Koson and the Art...
In Japanese art and poetry, the wild goose has carried a weight of meaning for more than a thousand years — the bird of autumn, of migration, of distances too...
Silence Over the Marsh: Ohara Koson and the Art...
In Japanese art and poetry, the wild goose has carried a weight of meaning for more than a thousand years — the bird of autumn, of migration, of distances too...
The Art of the Orchard: Miss May Rivers and The...
In the early 1890s, a botanical artist known only as Miss May Rivers illustrated one of the most ambitious horticultural projects of the Victorian era. Her chromolithographs for John Wright's...
The Art of the Orchard: Miss May Rivers and The...
In the early 1890s, a botanical artist known only as Miss May Rivers illustrated one of the most ambitious horticultural projects of the Victorian era. Her chromolithographs for John Wright's...