Holy hell, I had no idea Phillips was Russian-owned these days. Yikes. And - yeah, I really hope that in every single case, the Russian people in question are being looked at in a manner proportionally related to how pro-invasion/pro-Putin they are, not just because they're Russian with a history of not being publicly anti-Russian-govt. That could get very ugly very fast (and I'm sure is doing so, in plenty of places). Sigh.
Those tiny books are everything to me today. Everything. Thank you. I'm obsessed. I've always loved the old fit-in-a-small-pocket style of 17thC-early 20thC books, with their creaky, bendy leather covers & barely-there tissue-paper pages. (I dream of having a house with a room completely filled with them. FILLED. Or maybe just one wall, and the facing wall is all the National Geographics to date.)
But what I would really, really love is for someone to be republishing modern books in this exact style. Tiny books of modern classics, turned into "antique" objects of literary beauty. Pls? Someone? *scoops up some money and throws a handful at laptop screen*
That's funny - a dealer in one of the articles I read said that this situation probably won't hurt Phillips, because "most people still think Simon DePury owns it" (or something like that).
The tiny books are giving me a HUGE case of the grabby hands, too - along with the tiny bookcases! I wish I could go back in time and see the cabinetmaker's face when his client came in and asked for two Chippendale-style bookcases, the only catch being that they each needed to be four inches tall.
Yes indeed. The scene from "This Is Spinal Tap" springs to mind, where the sketch for making the props for their Stonehenge set turns out to have mistaken feet for inches. Nobody wants to be in THAT situation with a client...
The envelope ring 🥲
I love it all over again!
Holy hell, I had no idea Phillips was Russian-owned these days. Yikes. And - yeah, I really hope that in every single case, the Russian people in question are being looked at in a manner proportionally related to how pro-invasion/pro-Putin they are, not just because they're Russian with a history of not being publicly anti-Russian-govt. That could get very ugly very fast (and I'm sure is doing so, in plenty of places). Sigh.
Those tiny books are everything to me today. Everything. Thank you. I'm obsessed. I've always loved the old fit-in-a-small-pocket style of 17thC-early 20thC books, with their creaky, bendy leather covers & barely-there tissue-paper pages. (I dream of having a house with a room completely filled with them. FILLED. Or maybe just one wall, and the facing wall is all the National Geographics to date.)
But what I would really, really love is for someone to be republishing modern books in this exact style. Tiny books of modern classics, turned into "antique" objects of literary beauty. Pls? Someone? *scoops up some money and throws a handful at laptop screen*
That's funny - a dealer in one of the articles I read said that this situation probably won't hurt Phillips, because "most people still think Simon DePury owns it" (or something like that).
The tiny books are giving me a HUGE case of the grabby hands, too - along with the tiny bookcases! I wish I could go back in time and see the cabinetmaker's face when his client came in and asked for two Chippendale-style bookcases, the only catch being that they each needed to be four inches tall.
Yes indeed. The scene from "This Is Spinal Tap" springs to mind, where the sketch for making the props for their Stonehenge set turns out to have mistaken feet for inches. Nobody wants to be in THAT situation with a client...
That amethyst ring 😮😍 And I see it sold for $12k!!
SO beautiful. And the butterfly sold for $35k -- $27k over estimate! I hope they take good care of it.
THE TEENY, TINY BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!
I knoooooooow