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To the Reader, in the Manner of a Preface A herbal is a sober book, whatever the woodcuts may suggest, and it is sober because the matter is serious. The plants it describes will, a good many of them, do a man real good …
The sixth post in this arc treated the Italian Baroque, and named the Italian Renaissance as the antecedent it had grown …
The fifth post in this arc treated Kashan, and it opened the central Persian court register by setting the urban …
The Dutch Colonial post, which closed the previous entry, ended by promising that the series would at last leave the …
A Preface, Addressed to the Practitioner There is a class of book, old and disreputable, that proposes to teach a man …
The ninth post in this arc treated Thomas Sheraton, and closed by promising one of two continuations: the heavier …
The ninth post in this arc treated the Hereke — a rug made not by a place but by an institution, a state manufactory …
The Federal post, several entries back, closed by promising one of two styles for later treatment: the Pueblo Revival of …
What follows is a shooting script, assembled from field notes taken over a single season in a habitat that has, in the …
The eighth post in this arc treated George Hepplewhite, and closed by promising one of two continuations: a return to …
To the Reader, in the Manner of a Preface A herbal is a sober book, whatever the woodcuts may suggest, and it is sober because the matter is serious. The plants …
The sixth post in this arc treated the Italian Baroque, and named the Italian Renaissance as the antecedent it had grown out of — the sixteenth-century cassone …
The Dutch Colonial post, which closed the previous entry, ended by promising that the series would at last leave the revivals and turn to the thing they had …
A Preface, Addressed to the Practitioner There is a class of book, old and disreputable, that proposes to teach a man the management of spirits. The grimoire is …
The ninth post in this arc treated Thomas Sheraton, and closed by promising one of two continuations: the heavier Regency succession that displaced Sheraton …
The Federal post, several entries back, closed by promising one of two styles for later treatment: the Pueblo Revival of the Southwest, or the Dutch Colonial of …
What follows is a shooting script, assembled from field notes taken over a single season in a habitat that has, in the brief span of its documented existence, …
The eighth post in this arc treated George Hepplewhite, and closed by promising one of two continuations: a return to the English neoclassical line in its …
| Date | Category | Title | Words | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-24 | ai | A Herbal of the Artificial Age | 3456 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-24 | antiques | Italian Renaissance | 3341 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-24 | antiques | Isfahan | 3539 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-24 | architecture | Saltbox | 3814 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-23 | ai | A Grimoire of Prompts | 3694 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-23 | antiques | English Regency | 3629 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-23 | antiques | Oushak | 3377 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-23 | architecture | Dutch Colonial | 3850 | 19 min |
| 2026-05-22 | ai | The Feeding Grounds: A Natural History of the Intelligent Machine | 3665 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-22 | antiques | Thomas Sheraton | 3625 | 18 min |