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