Jielde lamp
Jielde lamp by Jean Louis Domecq
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a painter.
Lenco L70
Lenco L70 is a turntable from a Swiss manufacturer.
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel is the first novel by Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, published in 1984. There is no easily discerned plot in the conventional sense, but the central question of the book (the mass religious conversion of the Khazar people) is based on an historical event generally dated to the last decades of the 8th century or the early 9th century when the Khazar royalty and nobility converted to Judaism, and part of the general population followed. However, most of the characters and events described in the novel are entirely fictional, as is the culture ascribed to the Khazars in the book, which bears little resemblance to any literary or archeological evidence. The novel takes the form of three cross-referenced mini-encyclopedias, each compiled from the sources of one of the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism).
Germaine Cellier
Germaine Cellier was a French master perfumer. She was known for creating bold, pioneering fragrances such as Fracas and Bandit.
Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist.
International Necronautical Society
The International Necronautical Society is a semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes of the early 20th century. It replays, not without parody, the politically-inflected structures of these avant-gardes, with their manifestoes, committees, splinter groups and purges. At the same time the INS makes use of these structures to generate artistic projects that explore the relations between death and representation. The representation of physical death, as in obituaries and memorials, is only a starting point for the INS’s exploration of the ways that all representations inhabit a zone of conceptual death. Death is viewed by the INS as “a cipher for the outer limit of description, for the point at which the code breaks down”.
Chirimenbon
Chirimen-bon is a book made of crepe paper, usually illustrated with multi-colored woodblocks print and bound in Japanese style. Many of them were produced from the Meiji to early Showa era (latter half of the 19th century to first half of the 20th century).
Journal des dames et des modes
Journal des Dames et des Modes was a French fashion periodical published in the 1910s and illustrated by some of the finest illustrators of the Art Deco period.
Bottom’s Dream
Bottom's Dream is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt. Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger began to translate the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. The novel was inspired by James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. The gargantuan novel was published in folio format with 1334 pages. The story is told mostly in three shifting columns, presenting the text in the form of notes, collages, and typewritten pages.