Ghost Furniture

"Chaises à Calke Abbey par Tom Mannion
Dans les bureaux de la maison Martin Margiela, via Café Mode
A l'ambassade d'Autriche à Paris, par Eugène Atget. "

Post shamelessly stolen from the magnificent Le Divan Fumeur Bohémien

Manta Ray

"Known as 'Bertuch's Bilderbuch für Kinder', this rather enlightened 12-volume natural history / science / enthnographic encyclopedia for children was published in instalments between 1790 and 1830."

more images and info at BibliOdyssey

Sinai Hotels

via BLDGBOG:

[these] images by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz+Zoche, (look) at "the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes" abandoned on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

They are resorts that never quite happened, then, with names like Sultan's Palace and the Magic Life Imperial. This makes them "monuments to failed investment.""






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Satirical Map of Europe

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Lifted from BibliOdyssey:

"Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) was one of the most famous cartoonist/caricaturists of WWI. He crossed the border from Holland into Belgium to witness first-hand the atrocities of the advancing German army. He subsequently chronicled the brutality of theses forces in his cartoons which drew the wrath of the Germans. They forced the Dutch authorities to put the illustrator on trial for jeopardising the neutrality of the Netherlands (acquitted). A reward was offered by the Germans for Raemaekers' arrest and he escaped to Britain where he continued to skewer the German army in his drawings. He produced a thousand cartoons during the war and gained world wide acclaim from their syndication."

See more incredible maps at BibliOdyssey.

Barcelona 1908 and Tico Tico

See also San Francisco 1905.

The Lion and the Wall of Death.

Post Secret

It has been ages since I visited Post Secret...

Just stumbled upon it. glad to see it still going strong.

Ornamental Typography

Ornamental Typography at BibliOdyssey

BibliOdyssey Raid

I have about a million BibliOdyssey posts saved up for re-posting. It's about time I made a clear-up. So here are a bunch of random images from quite probably the best visual blog on the net. If you want to find out the story behind them, you'll just have to lurk. Which is just as well, because you are only bound to find even more impressive stuff.

I hope peacay doesn't mind.



























BibliOdyssey

Ink-redible (sorry)

Gorgeous Chinese ink drawings of scenes from Hansel & Gretel.

via le equally gorgeous divan fumoir bohemien

Beautiful Specimens

"Wikipedia tells us: “A microscope slide was originally a ‘slider’ made of ivory or bone, containing specimens held between disks of transparent mica. These were popular in Victorian England until the Royal Microscopical Society introduced the standardized microscope slide in the form of a thin sheet of glass used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.”

Read full entry at the nonist

American Civil War Envelopes

"The printed envelope came into use in America in 1840 and was first used for advertising or satirical purposes. In the 1850s to 1860s 'corner cards,' with printing applied in the upper left-hand side of the front of the envelope, were common. By the onset of the Civil War, printed envelopes were already in use as a propaganda medium. Lithography was the main mode of printing used for envelopes, especially for colored designs. Printed envelopes were sold either as a single item or with matching paper."

See full post @ BibliOdyssey

New from Mose

mose

A bunch of roses

via le divan fumoir bohemien

Defiant Gardening

"Defiant gardens are gardens created during times of extreme crisis, built behind the trenches of World War I, on both sides of the Western Front; in Jewish ghettos and Nazi concentration camps during World War II; in POW and civilian internment camps of both wars, tended to by prisoners and their captors; in internment camps for Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II; in garrisons, depots and battalion headquarters; in refugee camps; on the hollowed out concavities left behind by the Blitz. They are “short-lived, their marks on the land quickly obliterated.”

A plant nursery in the Glubokoye ghetto.

A Taoist and Buddhist inspired stone garden in an internment camp in Manzanar, California for Japanese Americans during World War II. Photo by Kenneth Helphand.

A bomb crater in 1942 London becomes host to a kitchen garden. Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.

"To learn more about them, either read this report from NPR or purchase Kenneth Helphand's engrossing book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime."

Pictures and text lifted from Pruned (with more pics and ting)