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WASARA IS “DISPOSABLE paper ware for spiritual enrichment.” Made from sugar cane refuse and other low-footprint fibers, these high-concept paper plates and cups meld Japanese aesthetics, industrial disposability, and a touch of DIY panache (or […]
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This is the final installment in our HiLobrow Cover Art series. Thanks to Luc Sante, Jonathan Lethem, and everyone else who sent in examples. It’s been fun! Check out the entire series. *** *** *** […]
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Special edition in the HiLobrow Cover Art series! Not esteemed fiction, this time, but classical music with racy cover imagery. Check out the entire series. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** […]
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Will wonders never cease? These covers keep flooding in. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to this important cultural archaeology project. Check out the entire series.
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Our circle of hermenautic comrades has turned up several other examples of esteemed authors published in racy paperback editions. Enjoy! Check out the entire series. *** *** *** NB: Hoagland’s Cat Man won the 1954 […]
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On Thursday, the editors of HILOBROW discussed the particulars of our project during a weekly meetup with Brian and Tom Nealon, proprietors of the excellent Pazzo Books (located in the Boston neighborhood of West Roxbury). […]
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BORN IN 1900, German artist Gerd Arntz designed a pattern language for life in the twentieth century. His prints and designs were intended to further the purposes of a socialist world even as they dreamt […]
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MARGARET and CHRISTINE WERTHEIM are crocheting a coral reef, and they’re eager for help. The sisters direct the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles, which supports lectures, publications, and projects that explore the “figurative ecology” […]
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The art of Thomas Doyle is at once inviting and unsettling. Miniature tableaux under glass, his pieces have the quirky, lilliputian charm of the model railroad, the dollhouse, and the museum diorama. But upon further […]
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Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]
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We learned about this chair — it’s called L’Astiko — from the current issue of Wallpaper. It’s a chic lounger in the midcentury style, but the seat is woven from rubber inner tubes. This experiment […]
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Happy Birthday, Vivienne Westwood! MORE HILO BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH
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Thomas Horvath’s kites are like every kite you’ve ever seen, and like no kite you’ve ever seen. They’re what kites dream of when they lie sleeping in a tangle of string at the bottom of […]
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File the following under: Warning: Contents Not Nearly as Sexy as You Might Think, or Petards, Prurient Paperback Purchasers Hoisted by Own Check out the entire series. *** — Thanks, C.S., for this one. *** […]
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Much contemporary art prides itself on posing questions. But too often the questions are rehearsed, and the answers prompt only tepid flickers of sensation. Works that engage the imagination in a total fashion — that […]
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