10.23.2008

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v414/n6861/images/414254ba.0.jpg

a design staple

http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/bathwallpaper.jpg



is Albertus Seba's
rad collection of oddities.


This Dutch-pharmacist dude from the 18th c.
collected the crazy stuff and then one day
had someone illustrate a 4 volume
catalog of all his specimens.

what a cool guy.


and so is ny10536

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I like it!!!
I think my sons would like it too!!!

honeydonthink said...

I have the book and love it for rainy afternoons - just a reminder that anything we dream up and design has already been outdone by nature.

nikole said...

indeed

Jana FitzGerald said...

Oh I love this. I don't even mind that I was given the German edition!