Mort à Vignole (Death At Vignole), Olivier Smolders, 1998.

Richard Anuszkiewicz, Stimulus, 1965. From: Albers / Vasarely / Anuszkiewicz: Three Generations, The J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI, April 20 – May 14, 1966

Victor Vasarely | Cassiopée

titled and dated 1957/1960 on the reverse painted relief on panel, in artist’s frame 83.3 by 59.2 cm. 32 ¾ by 23 ¼ in.

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Francesca Colussi Cramer.

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Marcel Proust  (via ancient-serpent)

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Josiah McElheny (American, b.1966)

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Esther Scroll, Ancona, early 18th century

Handwritten text, unfinished decorated cut-away parchment Parchment, 8 membranes, 39 text columns,  23x458 cm Carved wooden roller Gift of Mrs. Erna Ascoli in memory of her husband U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art ON 0495

This scroll is a beautiful example of the particular style of decoration that flourished in the Italian towns of Ancona and Lugo in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Artists in these towns specialized in a laborious technique whereby the parchment was cut away to create an intricately patterned frame for the text that reminds us of the beautiful lace used in fashions of that period. This elaborate technique was employed to adorn megillot, ketubbot and a variety of Judaica objects. Only a few such Italian cut-out parchment scrolls remain today.

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Shanghai-based architecture firm X+Living has designed Zhongshuge bookstores. Each location in this chain of Chinese bookstores has uniquely designed spaces with reflective elements that immerse guests in parallel environments. In the Chongqing branch, criss-crossing staircases and a mirrored ceiling double the room for an effect that seems straight out of an M.C. Escher woodcut.