verdant-abode

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Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:00:40 +0000

4 brothers chair

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:05:52 +0000

4 brothers chair:

Seungji Mun

four intact chairs with no loss in one wooden plate.

leahreena: Houseplants pattern in progress

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:44:02 +0000

leahreena:

Houseplants pattern in progress

laurenmanoogian: AW13 photographer//Darroch Putnam model//Mari...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:00:38 +0000

laurenmanoogian:

AW13

photographer//Darroch Putnam

model//Mari Guidicelli

nybg: Off on a tangent from the other day’s bit of Emily...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:52 +0000

nybg:

Off on a tangent from the other day’s bit of Emily Dickinson trivia. There’s no reason to think that pressing plants need be motivated by some desire to create a thorough and scientifically accurate herbarium (though we wholeheartedly support you if that’s your goal!). Sometimes it’s the simple act of collecting and immortalizing objects that gives you the most satisfaction, really. —MN

livingwithearthlings:

I remember, as far back as maybe third grade, I have collected pressed flowers.

Very recently I opened the two books I have always kept these flowers in and flipped through the whole collection and reflected on what started the collection in the first place.
I can’t think of any specific reason.

With no intention, not even an end goal to what I would use them for or even for their aesthetic value as pressed flowers, I selectively collected particular ones which seemed to strike me in that moment. In a way, they were compulsive, even as I say they were selected I feel as if the action is compulsory.

They hold no specific memories of places, times, or people. They are not particularly sentiment for the reasons of memory, but they are sentiment because I chose them and I kept them. Somehow, they mean something to me.

These reasons could be merely forgotten or they could have never existed in the first place. Here is where my research starts:

Time

Memory

Souvenir

Reflections of the temporary nature of fragile things in the wild, in nature, and how that creates preciousness.

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halleyroberts: The Eames.

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:00:45 +0000

halleyroberts:

The Eames.

nybg: Say you’re worried about deforestation or feel it cruel...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:43:50 +0000

nybg:

Say you’re worried about deforestation or feel it cruel to cut down a tree for a festive fortnight, and say you’re also worried about the foreign labor and petrochemicals that go into most artificial Christmas trees. Solution? Make your own! These charming directions from a time long ago will surely help you construct your own Christmas tree in time for the 25th. Paging Erica! ~AR

smithsonianlibraries:

For the ambitious 19th c. do-it-yourselfer, another timely project from the editors of Amateur Work.

All you need is 32 inches of zinc tubing, a couple pounds of galvanized iron wire, and plaster of paris. Voilá, a fire-proof Christmas tree!