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Aspen magazine

Aspen was a multimedia magazine published on an irregular schedule by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Described by its publisher as "the first three-dimensional magazine," each issue came in a customized box or folder filled with materials in a variety of formats, including booklets, "flexidisc" phonograph recordings, posters, postcards and reels of super-8 movie film. Issue #3 was designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. Published in December, 1966, the issue is housed in a box with graphics based on the packaging of "Fab" laundry detergent. Among its contents were a flip-book based on Warhol's film "Kiss," and Jack Smith's film "Buzzards Over Bagdad," a flexidisc by John Cale of the Velvet Underground, and a "ticket book" with excerpts of papers delivered at the Berkeley conference on LSD by Timothy Leary and others.

Bibliotheca Wittockiana

Considered one of the most beautiful and prestigious binding collections in the world, Bibliotheca Wittockiana was created by a passionate booklover, Michel Wittock.

Mima mounds

Mima mounds are mysterious formations found in fields in various parts of the world, including China, Alaska, and in this part of southwestern Washington.

Everclear

Everclear is a brand of neutral grain spirit that is available at concentrations of 75.5% alcohol (151 proof) and 95% alcohol (190 proof). Due to its high alcohol content, Everclear is illegal, unavailable, or difficult to find in many areas.

Jules Renard

Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United States. Throughout his journal, Renard develops not only his artistic convictions but also his humanity, as he reflects on the nineteenth-century French literary and art scene and the emergence of his position as an important novelist and playwright in that world, provides aphorisms and quips, and portrays the details of his personal life-his love interests, his position as a socialist mayor of Chitry, the suicide of his father-which often appear in his work.

Michelangelo – La Dotta Mano

Guaranteed for 500 years (a more and more common requirement today with museums), this special limited edition of only 33 copies worldwide, all numbered and signed, is a pictorial essay on the sculptures of the grand-master of the Renaissance in Italy.

Ama divers

Ama are Japanese divers, famous for collecting pearls. The majority of ama are women. Japanese tradition holds that the practice of ama divers may be 2,000 years old. Traditionally, and even as recently as the 1960s, ama dived wearing only a loincloth. Even in modern times, ama dive without scuba gear or air tanks, making them a traditional sort of free-diver.

Alberto Spadolini

Alberto Spadolini was an Italian dancer who cut a dash in the Paris of the “golden years” alongside muses such as Mistinguett and Josephine Baker, and intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais, offering his perfect, athletic nakedness to the public and earning the nickname “the living Rodin”.

Felice Beato

Felice Beato was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first photographers to take pictures in East Asia and one of the first war photographers.

Pierre Louis Delaval

Pierre Louis Delaval was a French painter.

Opus

Encyclopædia of the sublime