Curiosities & Design

Grow House Grow creates handmade wallpaper and tile with a story. This is where we paste the interesting, weird, and fantastic stuff that gets our imagination pumping. www.growhousegrow.com

[thecolorblockcurator]

Study of Drapery, Alphonse Maria Mucha

[nicoooooooon]

Untitled from the Flowers series, lithograph (1965) by Ruth Asawa

[last-picture-show]

René Magritte, The Land of Miracles, 1964

[lefildelhorizon]

CRISS CANNING, Green Chrysanthemum, 2016

[pmamtraveller]

Claude Monet by Thomas Bossard

[twirld]

The Sarcophagus of the Amazons from Tarquinia, Etruscan (detail, ca. 4th Century BC)

[thegameofart]

Jose Val del Omar (1904 - 1982)

[peaceinthestorm]

Max Kurzweil (1867-1916, Austrian) ~ The Artist’s Wife (Martha Kurzweil, Sleeping on a Divan), 1902

[Source: schirn.de]

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Pigment by Lefranc, 1927.

[nobrashfestivity]

 Leonora Carrington, Tarot Cards, 1960s

book available at 50wattsbooks

[nemfrog]

Bending a light beam. Scientific Ideas of Today. 1909.

Internet Archive

[growhousegrow]

Our Elizabethan-inspired Good Queen Bess tile pulls symbolism from two sources: a young Elizabeth, future queen, who took to adding a looped quatrefoil flourish to her signature (mirroring that of her father, Henry). And the bold, intricate hedge designs of Tudor knot gardens where the quatrefoil–a symbol of luck and harmony–could also commonly be found.

Available on growhousegrow.com

[publicdomainreview]

French novelist Jules Verne was born #onthisday in 1828. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emile-antoine-bayard-s-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870 #otd

[nemfrog]

Marbled endpaper. 1776.

Internet Archive

[yama-bato]

Maja Fjæstad

[enchantedbook]

'Alice in Wonderland ' illustrated by Tove Jansson, 1959.

[nemfrog]

“The moon six days old.” The common sights in the heavens. 1862.