#airmail

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from my archive 🔐 reblog is ok, don’t repost / use

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Calder Vs Duchamp !

During the mid-1940s, Calder produced a series of small-scale works, many from scraps trimmed during the making of other objects. When Duchamp saw them in Calder’s studio in 1945, he audaciously proposed, “Let’s mail these little objects to Louis Carré, in Paris, and have a show.”

By taking advantage of the newly available international airmail system, Duchamp’s action predated “mail art” by nearly two decades.

Calder packed thirty-seven miniature objects into six cartons and mailed them to Paris; intrigued by the limitations on parcel size, he also began creating larger collapsible works that could be reassembled upon arrival.

Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations opened at Galerie Louis Carré in 1946 and is remembered today as one of the most important shows of the artist's career.

Images:

Red T with Black Flags (1946), sheet metal, wire, and paint, Measuring approximately 24 ¾" x 16 ¼" x 14" (62.8 x 38.7 x 35.5 cm),

Crayfish (1946), sheet metal and paint, This piece measures a mere 3 ½ inches high (approx. 8.6 cm),

Grand Piano, Red (1946), sheet metal, wire, and paint, 9 ⅝" x 10" x 3" (24.4 x 25.4 x 7.6 cm)

© 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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'Overseas parcels - it's quicker by AIR'

General Post Office poster promoting airmail service to send parcels, featuring a colourful illustration of winged packages (c. 1950). Artwork by Armengol.

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Airmail, Newfoundland, Canada, 1933

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Headcanon that the reason Eddie has so many envelopes with wings all over his post office is because he lost a family member to airmail.

I mean, it would make sense that he would do it in honor and in memory of them, which would also give him the determination and a reason to be a mailman other than tradition and the good of his heart.

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Hussein Chalayan, Airmail Tyvek® dress, 1999, United Kingdom

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Airmail !

1 oz. rum

0.5 oz. lime juice

0.5 oz. honey syrup (2:1)

2 to 3 oz. sparkling wine

Shake rum, lime and honey syrup together hard on ice for six to 10 seconds. Add sparkling wine, then strain into a tall glass over fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wheel or honestly nothing at all.

Photo : Jason O'Bryan

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