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A beech wood and rubber walking stick created by Marialaura Irvine and produced by Thonet, from the book Walking Sticks, edited by Keiji Takeuchi and Marco Sammicheli, and published this month by Lars Müller Publishers. © Marialaura Irvine. Photograph by Natalia Gracia. Courtesy Lars Müller and D.A.P.
“Untitled (Zabriskie Point) Death Valley, California, 2021,” a photograph by Victoria Sambunaris, whose book Transformation of a Landscape, was published in November by Radius Books. Courtesy the artist
Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1557, a print by Pieter van der Heyden (after an engraving by Pieter Bruegel the Elder), whose work is included in the book Art in a State of Siege, by Joseph Leo Koerner, which was published this month by Princeton University Press.
A beech wood and rubber walking stick created by Marialaura Irvine and produced by Thonet, from the book Walking Sticks, edited by Keiji Takeuchi and Marco Sammicheli, and published this month by Lars Müller Publishers. © Marialaura Irvine. Photograph by Natalia Gracia. Courtesy Lars Müller and D.A.P.
“Untitled (Zabriskie Point) Death Valley, California, 2021,” a photograph by Victoria Sambunaris, whose book Transformation of a Landscape, was published in November by Radius Books. Courtesy the artist
Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1557, a print by Pieter van der Heyden (after an engraving by Pieter Bruegel the Elder), whose work is included in the book Art in a State of Siege, by Joseph Leo Koerner, which was published this month by Princeton University Press.
A beech wood and rubber walking stick created by Marialaura Irvine and produced by Thonet, from the book Walking Sticks, edited by Keiji Takeuchi and Marco Sammicheli, and published this month by Lars Müller Publishers. © Marialaura Irvine. Photograph by Natalia Gracia. Courtesy Lars Müller and D.A.P.
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