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Source: Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815–1930: The Art of the Book. University of Wisconsin–Madison. I highly recommend looking through their collection! Search string “art nouveau” gets 132 results, all of them delicious.
Which one of the above is your favorite?

I never thought I needed or wanted an e-reader until I had one. Birthdays are great!
I must admit I spend a good portion of yesterday peering at the Kindle and sometimes, when nobody was looking, petting it in awe. The E-ink screen, so touted by Amazon, is really quite amazing. I have no idea how [...]

Ways in which Parisian pigeons differ from American pigeons:

are often partly white (not like doves, but like white-and-brown colored pigeons)
have different-colored poo (I would not mention this but it’s chartreuse, I’m not lying)
seem to poo a lot (it’s only a matter of time for my hair)
little else

In other news that does not involve animal droppings, [...]

This is a plaque in Église Saint-Sulpice. Not sure when it was engraved but it had to have been a while ago. What I find most interesting about it, aside from the glorious letterforms, is the “vous estes” in the middle. In today’s French, “you are” would be “vous êtes.” That circumflex accent denotes that [...]

You wouldn’t think a cemetery would be a great place for a date, would you? But Cimitière Père-Lachaise is actually a peaceful and romantic place, not to mention beautiful as well. Deven and I took a stroll amongst the headstones on our second anniversary last month. It’s been two years since we began dating! It [...]

The day after we arrived in Brussels, we took a day trip to Antwerp! This gorgeous specimen of an A greeted us upon disembarking the train. It was a cold, cloudy day. We immediately bought some fries, got our bearings, and headed to our first item on the list…

The Museum Plantin-Moretus, which is a printing [...]

Scene: TD (like section) for Géographie de l’alimentation. 40 students in severely overheated classroom. Professor hands out photocopies of articles, discusses the first one by himself. Robin, seated in 4th row, begins to lose focus in the suffocating heat. Professor flips to second article, then consults attendance sheet. A pause in the silent classroom.
Prof: Euh… [...]

PS. This is my 100th blog post. Yay?

New obsession. Evidently.