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From the little-known architect to the over 375,000 terra cotta pieces on the facade, the pioneering radio stations and ...
The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of ...
Curators think the volume's corners and spine are bound in the skin of William Corder, an infamous criminal who was convicted ...
The hair-raising 13th century reads were previously thought to be bound with local boar and deer skin, the report states. “Contrary to the prevailing assumption that books were crafted from ...
The feeling of unease begins with the title in David Szalay’s “Flesh.” Flesh is something different from skin, more elemental and purely physical (its Spanish translation, carne, is also the ...
“Having identified this specific type of binding, characterized by a furry skin chemise, further research was conducted in other libraries,” researchers said. An additional 23 books were found ...