The Grand Tour and the Invention of the Tourist
Eighteenth-century aristocrats travelling to Italy created the souvenir trade, the guidebook and the idea of travel as self-improvement.
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Art, Design, Culture & Beautiful Places
Art, Design, Culture & Beautiful Places
Culture & Lifestyle
Craft, design history and the culture around beautiful things.
Wabi-Sabi Is Not a Decorating Style
The idea has been flattened into beige ceramics and distressed wood. What it originally described was something considerably harder.
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