Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913.
The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.
Collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
The New York Five, in 1972, dressed as their own favourite buildings, a nod to this famous picture from 1931.
The only published photograph of an Adolf Loos interior that includes a human figure. The man can only just be seen at the entrance to the drawing room of the Rufer house in Vienna (1922).
Snapped in New York on the roof of the Marceau Studio on Fifth Avenue, by a group of photographers working for the Byron Company, this picture is one of the first selfies in history, made in 1920. (via)
Bob Verbruggen, from the series/book ‘Morgen is alles anders’ (Everything will be different tomorrow) (2006)
