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Some Fun and Festive Wrapping Papers for All Your Last-Minute Gifts

Dwell

I yearn to be one of those celebrities who has a whole room dedicated to gift wrapping, with bags of every imaginable size and elegant-yet-whimsical tags that will make my loved ones feel extra special, whether they’re getting a hand-knit sweater or a giant bag of honey-roasted nuts (both gifts I am giving this year, incidentally).

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The Latest from MoMA: Emerging Ecologies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books with keywords to better filter and find them. In lieu of a thematic organization following from the layout of the exhibition (e.g., Prehistory of Environmental Architecture," "Enclosed Ecologies," "Life Forms," etc.)

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Why Are These Sleek Shelving Systems From the ’60s Suddenly Everywhere?

Dwell

The piece—a variation of the about six-foot tall R2 unit—is a green étagère highlighting and hiding art books about Ferrari, New Order shirts, rare coffee batches from Montreal and the like. But it also holds all my books, and blends in seamlessly with the apartment." Next to the mud, it’s the shop’s centerpiece.

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A Love Letter to the Stumbled-Across Garage Sale

Dwell

There are many names for the ad hoc sales characterized by patinaed silverware strewn on plastic tables and clunky mirrors propped up against trees: lawn sale, yard sale, tag sale. Months later, I was sitting in an art history class in college when a lookalike of my family’s mug holder popped on screen: Marcel Duchamp’s Bottle Rack.

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Frieze London is 20: what to see at the Art Fair and beyond on its milestone edition

The Spaces

’ The London of 2003 was languishing in a post-YBA, pre-Post-Internet era, Banksy was still carefreely tagging on its streets; Grayson Perry had accepted the Turner Prize, and Olafur Eliasson was enveloping Tate Modern’s (shiny new) Turbine Hall with The Weather Project. See more on the show. Courtesy the artist and Frieze.

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Glasgow School of Art presents 10 postgraduate design projects

Deezen

Dezeen School Shows: an app that teaches human anatomy by visualising organs as baked goods and a musical elephant that helps teach children new languages are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow School of Art. Institution: Glasgow School of Art (GSA). Hair by Meihui Zhang.

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Sketching the Housing Crisis

Landscape Architecture Magazine

One notable exception is Breath on the Mirror: Seattle’s Skid Road Community, a book by Laurie Olin, FASLA, that is a powerful anthropological depiction of Seattle’s Pioneer Square in the early 1970s. More often, landscape architects use sketching to explore means of communication, observation, and sense of place.