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Book of wagashi / design, Edo period (1603-1868), Japan. Wagashi is a traditional confectionary, served with tea and often fashioned into shapes of nature, 

Complete Book 1 / Book 2 / Book 3. Via present & correct

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Pages from a trade catalog, Christbaumschmuck / Christmas Tree Ornaments, 1936. Erwin Geyer, Lauscha, Germany. Illustrating ornaments, as well as other decorative items for Christmas. Via @cmog  Corning Museum of Glass. Thx to Present & Correct

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh, competition entry “House for an Art Lover), 1901/1902. Mackintosh did win, but the house wasn’t built at that time but decades later from 1989 to 1991 in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, based on his plans. Via wolfsonian/wiki commons

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Leopold Bauer, Portfolio / Competition entry “House of an Art Lover”, 1902. Published bei Alex Koch, Darmstadt, Germany. The winner was Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Complete via wolfsonian

Bauer (1872-1938) was a pupil of  Otto Wagner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was both an architect and an arts & crafts designer, as well as a writer on these subjects. He took a mediating position between Historicism and Secession, thereby meeting the taste of most of his contemporaries. Antiquariat Rohlmann

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Waka poems (Shikishi), poem cards, pictures of flowers and grasses of the Four Seasons, Tawaraya Sôtatsu, painter, Hon'ami Kôetsu, calligraph. Edo, ca. 1610. Japan. Museum für Asiatische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jürgen Liepe

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David Palladini, Aquarian Tarot Deck, 1970. Morgan Press. More to see here: We are the Mutants

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The Complete Commercial Artist, Volume 15, 1929. Editor: Hamada, Masuji (濱田 増治) Via Letterform Archive

The japanese journal shows contemporary typography of the 1920s, including Bifur by Cassandre, early Futura by Paul Renner or the Bauhaus font Universal by Herbert Bayer.

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Collection of japanese and chinese matchbox labels. Spread over 4 books. Via presentandcorrect. There you’ll find the download links.

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Male mannequins by Pierre Imans, made by the sculptor Clovis Trouille, circa 1930-1940, Paris. More to see: godsandfoolishgrandeur

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Waterbeds circa 1970s and ‘80s.

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Eight gold ornaments, Minoan, ca. 2300–2100 B.C.

Via the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Antique Chinese hair ornaments.

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mudsongs.org: Cutting & Bottling Honey

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Infra Realism by Kate Ballis

Australian photographer Kate Ballis has toured Palm Springs with an infrared camera and coloured filters to produce these images, which show the muted desert city in lucid purple, pink and red tones. Melbourne-based Ballis created the Infra Realism series to offer alternative views of Palm Springs’ famed mid-20th century architecture, having captured its vistas many times previous.

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(via Valentino’s Grandeur and Levity - Style Bubble)

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Risograph prints by We are out of office (Etsy)

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From “400 Years in 4 Minutes” (1945).