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Fairy Tale Architecture

A roundup of our holiday Fairy Tale Architecture posts.

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Painting on Black Velvet

Collector's Weekly has a wonderful homage to the "the paintings the art world loves to hate", those on black velvet.

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Recent Books Received: 12.17.13

Why Photography Matters by Jerry L. Thompson; The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker; Common Pavilions: The National Pavilions in the Giardini of the Venice Biennale in Essays and Photographs edited by Diener …

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The Gift of Working Happy

Design Observer and Poppin have teamed up to help one lucky reader through the season of doing-it-all with a very special sackful of gifts.

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New in the Design Observer Store

New items in the Design Observer 10th Anniversary Store.

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The Gorgeous Nothings

Envisioned by artist Jen Bervin and made possible by the extensive research of Dickinson scholar Marta L. Werner, The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems, has full-size reproductions of 52 of Emily Dickenson's …

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The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Simon Garfield's latest book is To The Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing.

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New Items in the Design Observer Store

New products listed in the Design Observer store.

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Dear Bonnie

Announcing Dear Bonnie, a new truth-telling weekly advice column from Bonnie Siegler.

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Dear Bonnie

Announcing Dear Bonnie, a new truth-telling weekly advice column from Bonnie Siegler.

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Recent Recommended Books

Two recently recommended books: Montage Revisited by Charlotte Bundgaard and Space & Psyche, Elizabeth Danze, Stephen Sonnenberg, Editors.

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Frontier Fellowship

The Frontier Fellowship provides creative professionals the opportunity to live and work in Green River, Utah. From this rural place, and in the context of the frontier, Fellows have the opportunity to generate new work that is informed …