Vintage Find: Japanese Design Manuals
I love libraries. I’m a library addict. I guess I love libraries so much because I love books and research, so thank god I basically have one foot in academia. By its nature research is slow so I don’t post much about what I’m working on because in the day-to-day it rarely looks like much. However, I just discovered a amazing scanner in my favorite library and voila! here are some of the beautiful images I’ve been gorging myself on this summer. I’m researching a piece of silver made by Tiffany & Company in the 1870s. The design is Japanese inspired so I’ve been looking at the primary sources that the Tiffany designers might have been influenced by in the 1870s and 1880s.
These are a few of my favorites but you can see some 80 or so more here. Yes, I went a bit nuts with the new scanner (it is so fast!) but it was really all for you. Note to the fabric designers — there are some amazing designs here that I think would translate into modern fabric beautifully.
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August 25th, 2008 14:08
Wow! This one is a great find. I wish I had found it.
August 25th, 2008 15:59
I’m loving these! I’ve always been fascinated by japonisme style…for a more modern take check out these more modern [human sized] prints.
http://pretavoyager.blogspot.com/search?q=mina
August 25th, 2008 17:45
Oh wow! KILLER
August 25th, 2008 21:41
Rock on, library genius.
August 26th, 2008 04:31
Love these, they’re beautiful.
August 31st, 2008 14:42
These are great and I love your library posts. Most of use can’t find the time to et to the library anymore… but it is wonderful that you are doing it for us and sharing your finds with us. Let’s have a library post once a week!
September 1st, 2008 09:56
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!! What an amazing book!
Is there a name & author?