Damayanti, Lost in Her Thoughts, While Everyone else Sleeps, folio from an unidentified Nala­Damayanti, ca. 1785. Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, included in Divine Pleasures: Painting from India’s Rajput Courts—The Kronos Collections

avec-plaisir-avec-plaisir:

Ray Eames holding Dot Pattern fabric, Library of Congress

grupaok:

Gallery at the Newark Public Library, c. 1910

Safronova Antoneena Federovna, Odessa Food Trust box and cover, ca. 1922. Printed paper on board

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 

furtho:

Hannah Höch’s poster promoting the Frühlings-Messe Der Kunstgewerbe Gruppe, Berlin, 1925 (via Christies)

Fingers crossed that this will someday escape the clutches of private ownership…

thirdorgan:

Nicolaj Michajlovic Suetin (Russia, 1897 - 1954) AGITAČNÍ TRAMVAJ c.1920

geewhiz:

Linnea’s Haircut from Linnea Hendrickson, c. 1950s.

Nikolai Sokolov, “Spa Hotel in Matsesta,” 1928-29. Course project for the architecture department at Vkhutemas. From the archives of the Щусев State Museum of Architechture, via Togda Zine.

Celebrating one hundred years of Duchamp’s readymade at MoMA

ringsofslattern:

Grete Sterne, Advertisement for Bostanjoglo No. 7, Russian cigarettes, c. 1928

furtho:

Cover of Ogonyok magazine, USSR, 1939 (via togdazine)

thirdorgan:

Victor Servranckx (Belgium, Diegem, 26 juni 1897 - Vilvoorde, 11 december 1965)

French art magazine “Bulletin de l'Effort moderne”, October 1925; with graphics from the Belgian artist Victor Servranckx 1925

ringsofslattern:

archimaps: The telegram office for newspaper Die Zeit, Vienna

last-picture-show:

Diane Arbus, Clouds on Screen at a Drive-in-Movie, NJ, 1960