The Talipot palm flowers only once in its lifetime, producing the biggest inflorescence in the flowering kingdom. The palm grows for 30 to 80 years, storing up energy and strength in its trunk to send out this massive inflorescence. After flowering and fruiting the plant will die.
Six was Rei Kawakubo's magazine from the late 80s.
A master of the portrait.
A Journey to Mount Athos is a book in which an adolescent boy sails to the remote monasteries and hermitages of Mount Athos. His spiritual and erotic wanderings in the picturesque surroundings of the Holy Mountain take both the author and the reader on a journey of self-discovery. Augiéras described Athos as a place where you find everything within yourself, and the experiences in this book as a sojourn in the Land of the Spirits according to the strictest Buddhist or Pythagorean Orthodoxy.
Scagliola is a technique for producing stucco columns, sculptures, and other architectural elements that resemble inlays in marble and semi-precious stones. The Scagliola technique came into fashion in 17th century Tuscany as an effective substitute for costly marble inlays, the pietra dura works created for the Medici family in Florence.
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, first published in 1954, is one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. Written by Alice B. Toklas, writer Gertrude Stein's life-partner, Toklas wrote this book as a favor to Random House to make up for her unwillingness at the time to write her memoirs, in deference to Stein's 1933 book about her, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. This work is as much of an autobiography as it is a cookbook, in that it contains as many personal recollections as it does recipes. The most famous culinary experiment contained therein is a concoction called Hashish Fudge. Made from spices, nuts, fruit, and Cannabis, Hashish Fudge quickly became a sensation in its own right.
Wilhelm Jungmann & Neffe is a venerable cloth merchant that started over 145 years ago. The store has remained unchanged since its opening, so much of it feels like a step back in time. Inside are high-end cloths for suits and shirts, including a range of wools, cottons, moleskins, cashmeres, tweeds, and linens.
Mason Pearson, the company that made, and kept, a name for itself with a boar-bristle brush, has been run by the same family for four generations. The brush’s design has changed little since the original was created in 1885. It still features a soft rubber pad (thought to be easier on the hair), which might not seem like the biggest deal but was pretty much hair-care heresy in the late 1800s.
Remy Charlip was a dancer and children's books author.
Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China.