Thursday, May 28, 2015

Tobias Frere-Jones on cigar-box edging

“Everything is collected by somebody, and I’m grateful for that. Ephemera, the fragile snapshots of everyday design, would be lost without collectors”: Tobias Frere-Jones looks at cigar-box edging.

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Fresca said...

What a great phrase, "fragile snapshots of everyday design".

This is one of the things I love best about sorting donations at the thrift shop--glimpsing fragile snapshots.