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Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.
Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).
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Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.
Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).
[holycool.]
Via abbyjean:
A new metro station named after the famously gloomy Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has opened in Moscow despite fears it could attract suicides. The station, called Dostoyevskaya, is decorated with brooding grey and black mosaics that depict violent scenes from the 19th-century writer’s best-known novels. One mural re-enacts the moment when the main character in Crime and Punishment murders an elderly pawnbroker and her sister with an axe.
Another shows a suicide-obsessed character in The Demons holding a pistol to his temple. If that was not enough to darken the mood, shadowlike characters are shown flitting across the cavernous new station’s walls and a giant mosaic of a depressed-looking Dostoevsky stares out at passengers.
Via benjaminhilts:
Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is… now
via @Carin Berger
The New York Public Library’s Thomas Lannon (Manuscripts and Archives Division) talks about that great old book smell: “It has a shoe box. There’s a shoe box. It has a shoe box-ness.”
Via libraryland, via mudwerks, via Artists in Action #535:
Vladimir Nabokov contemplates his next move
“The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition.”
- Mark Twain, speech, April 24, 1906
Photo via vintagephoto
Photo cutout of the Lygon family, on whom Evelyn Waugh partially based Brideshead Revisited’s Marchmain/Flyte family.
Via Vanity Fair
