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The Mad Men of Mid-Century Modern Furniture

George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom
Playboy Magazine, July 1961.

(via The Selvedge Yard)

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One of the National Geographic International Photography Contest entries for 2009

"Nazroo, a mahout (elephant driver), poses for a portrait while taking his elephant, Rajan, out for a swim in front of Radha Nagar Beach in Havelock, Andaman Islands. Rajan is one of the few elephants in Havelock that can swim, so when he is not dragging timber in the forest he is used as a tourist attraction. The relationship between the mahout and his elephant usually lasts for their entire lives, creating an extremely strong tie between the animal and the human being."

Photo and caption by Cesare Naldi

via The Big Picture

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this photo

(via My Parents Are Awesome)

a very cool blog, if I must say

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Pebble Place Mats!

I've been looking for easy-to-clean, stylish place mats.

from Little Factory

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Abby Wynne's illustration

it just brightens up my day :)

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this bench.

xoxo

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Ghosts VI, Sam Taylor-Wood (2008) via White Cube

this photo. 

From Art Observed:

Sam Taylor-Wood first read Wuthering Heights only months before embarking on her series. One night while at her second-home in North Yorkshire, prior to her break-upwith gallery-owner Jay Jopling, she felt compelled to experience a novel she hoped to be “fantastically romantic.” After reading, Taylor-Wood felt it necessary to experience the wild landscape and the turbulent emotional weather that had inspired Brontë and so she set off on a trek across the moors with an assistant and camera equipment in the middle of February- a time of year Taylor-Wood described as prefect; “freezing cold.” Taylor-Wood and her assistant walked for hours in the unremitting sleet and winds. A moment of relief came when the pair finally reached Top Withins – the site of the action in Wuthering Heights – when the clouds parted and the sun appeared as captured in Ghosts IV.

 The resulting photos are up now (but only for a few more days) at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire.  Wuthering Heights wasn't my favorite on my high school summer reading list, but Wood completely captures the epic scenery in her photos. Seeing them in the context of post-breakup adds a sense of futility to the hopeless romanticism.

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A warm, cozy blanket from Terrain

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this photograph

buy it here!

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The Rise and Fall tshirts

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"It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers"

by Colin Nissan

I was literally laughing out loud through this entire essay.

Read it! Read it now!

(via McSweeneys)

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"Workspace" photos by Joseph Holmes

shown at the new Rag & Bone Soho store

(link to the portfolio here, via ACL)

p.s. Rag & Bone is up there on my favorite-to-daydream-about list of clothing items

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Clare Vivier Messenger Bag

Love that cobalt color and the simplest of simple lines.

link here

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Dieppa Restrepo Brogues

(link here)

Images by Leigh Johnson, Michelle Cortez, and Fernando Marroquin.

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Hawaii-printed US currency, used during WWII, when the government was afraid that Japan would soon takeover the islands.

I remember hearing stories from my grandmother about living in Honolulu right after Pearl Harbor. Curfews, blackout curtains, and gas-masks were everyday practices. 

I love the font juxtaposition on the money, and the history behind it. Oh, if only I could find some of this money to frame. That would be so cool.

Link via Hi + Low