Design by Jeff Ramsey, series cover design by Liam Gillick July 2017, English 10.8 x 17.8 cm, 360 pages, 11 b/w illustrations, softcover ISBN: 978-3-95679-267-0 Publisher: Sternberg Press Berlin Launch: July 14 at Miss Read New York Launch: Sep 14 at e-flux
In spite of its modest size, this flask in the shape of a mango, adorned with gold, gems, and enameling, eloquently demonstrates the artistic standards and tastes of seventeenth-century Mughal India. Likely to have been created during the reign of Shah Jahan, the emperor who built the famous Taj Mahal, the flask expresses the Mughal […]
Sturdy, monumental, artfully rounded, richly adorned, and so weighty and well balanced that it could hardly be overturned, this dignified and useful inkpot can be seen as a poetic visual symbol of the empire inherited by Jahangir. If his father, Akbar, commissioned works of art as elements of a dynamic imperial vision, the son did […]
This edition comes in four different versions of Janes Simpson’s humorous rubber kitchenware. Each is an edition of 10, comes in a specifically produced cloth-covered, hinged book box and includes a signed copy of the publication Fresh Fresher.
Marvel at the world’s largest cell with this exotic conversation piece, plucked from Creel and Gow’s cabinet of curiosities. An authentic ostrich egg has been hollowed out and lacquered to a creamy gloss that preserves the pitted surface pattern and helps to ensure that it will last much longer in your nest than it did […]