Paper sculptures - Li Hongbo

Chinese artist and designer Li Hongbo makes sculptures out of paper. What first seems like a plaster sculpture turns out to be made out of thousands of layers of paper, glued and carved. The sculptures open like a flexible sculpture. Watch the video to see how it works.

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Li Hongbo demonstrating, how his paper sculptures work.

from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

Li Hongbo - Pure White Paper from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

Encyclopedic Cuttlefish & Mussels

Edmund de Waal

British ceramist Edmund de Waal is one of the world’s leading artists working in ceramics today. He is best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels. Much of his recent work has been concerned with ideas of collecting and collections: how objects are kept together, lost, stolen, or dispersed. 

I'm not particulary interested in pottery and ceramics but I can enjoy it very much. But this goes beyond pottery. His large scale of the collections is what makes his work so beautiful. 

MixMax

To think I actually doubted to buy this game! I didn't like the illustrations at first but when I photographed it the game actually grew on me. Such fun!

It's a classic theme, of course, mixing and matching the several pieces. But it never gets boring.

This Ravensburger game is from 1972. I was happy to discover it was complete.

  

The Fire Bird - Russian fairy tales

I found this gorgeous children's book in a thriftshop. It's an English translation of Russian fairy tales, with beautiful titles. Such as: the fire bird, the frog Tsarevna, chestnut grey, Emelya and the pike, Vasilisa the beautiful. 

I'm always interested in vintage books from Eastern Europe. The illustrations are always so interesting and beautiful. The drawings are by Igor Yershov and Ksenia Yershova. The book was first published in 1973 by Progress Publishers Moscow.