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No. 0139 Art & Design · Nordic

Notes from an Island

Tove Jansson

For twenty-six years, Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent summers on a bare platter of rock in the Gulf of Finland, a tiny speck called Klovharun, living their dream of art and isolation. Her…

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No. 0134 Art & Design · No fixed address

Parks 2

Brian Kelley

Author and photographer Brian Kelley has a huge collection of U.S. national park maps and ephemera—at least twelve hundred items. He notes, “If you just have one map, it doesn’t feel as significant. But then when you start getting this…

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Parks 2
No. 0150 Art & Design · No fixed address

Surf Shacks Vol. 3

Matt Titone

No matter how swanky the houses in the third iteration of Gestalten’s addictively voyeuristic Surf Shacks series, you know there’s sand on the floor—maybe not in the luscious pictures, but just before or after. What distinguishes these forty homes, from…

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Surf Shacks Vol. 3
No. 0132 Art & Design · Eastern U.S. & Appalachia

Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains

Rosalie Haizlett

With luck, Tiny Worlds will trigger FOMO—and point you toward the miraculous web of beauty seen at foot level and strolling speed. Plagued by chronic migraines as a teenager, West Virginia watercolorist Rosalie Haizlett started taking long walks in nature…

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