Vogue Italia September 2000
Photographed by Corinne Day
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mathematical beauty
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topography laws of geography understanding the world but unable to speak to it
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Yoshida Toshi
Mendocino, Sunrise
with reverse
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Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976) - Ohne Titel (Microbe-décalcomanie), oil and pencil on paper mounted on card, 6.50 x 5.00 cm (1956)
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Julia Ibbini, courtesy of Heron Arts
The United Emirates-based artist sources elements from Islamic geometry, embroidery, meenakari enamel work, and even electronic music to inspire the designs that compose her laser cut paper works. The complex patterns and layers of her colorful compositions are a metaphor for the artist’s multicultural background as a dual national from Jordan and the UK, and share elements of symbolism seen in the Middle East region. Ibbini uses computer algorithms to create digital designs that she laser cuts onto paper. She then layers these detailed pieces and hand-paints them with ink.
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Antique Persian rug (date unknown)
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Stockpile of 2,000-year-old gemstones found in Roman bathhouse drain
Archaeologists recently uncovered a stockpile of 2,000-year-old glittering gemstones clogging the drain of a Roman bathhouse near Hadrian’s Wall in Carlisle, England.
The 30 engraved, semi-precious stones — known as intaglios — likely dropped out of the ring settings worn by bathers who took to the waters sometime during the second and third centuries A.D., The Guardian reported.
“It’s incredible,” Frank Giecco, the archaeologist who led the excavation, told The Guardian. “It’s caught everyone’s imagination. They were just falling out of people’s rings who were using the baths. They were set with a vegetable glue and, in the hot and sweaty bathhouse, they fell out of the ring settings.” Read more.
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Vernacular African architecture (Rwanda)
East Centre of the African continent: half way between the Lac region, the Horn of Africa and the equatorial forest; Rwanda is the typical example of central African womb-like houses with the spacious comfort of east Africa.
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Strawberry Hill House. A Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London 1749
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