
David Shrigley, ‘Pet Carrier #5’ (2007)

A nail house is a Chinese neologism for homes belonging to people (sometimes called “stubborn nails”) who refuse to make room for real estate development. The term, a pun coined by developers, refers to nails that are stuck in wood, and cannot be pounded down with a hammer.





Sir Edward James‘s surrealist garden in Las Pozas, a mountainous village in North-East Mexican, lost in the jungle of Xilitla, in the state of San Luis Potósi.

Joseph Gandy, ‘Buildings of Sir John Soane’ (1818)
Watercolour of an imaginary room filled with the architect John Soane‘s models.