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Sunday, July 22, 2018

S P H E R E S

a color photograph of children's glass marbles
this children's game was in past centuries a gambling game for adults ... later,  children gambled for the glass marbles themselves
  
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1939 NY World's Fair photograph
a playground for adults ... the 1939 NY World's Fair      see full size
   
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Jack Kirby spash panel
Jack Kirby comic book art      see full size
  
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Niklaus Troxler art, black and white striped spheres
a Niklaus Troxler poster for a music event,
  a jazz quartet with sax,  drums,  and two bass
      
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a 1925 Muller Freres beaded chandelier
1925 lighting by Muller Freres
   
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's 1700s 'House of the Farm Guard'
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's 1700s design for 'House of the Farm Guard'
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a Herbert Paus illustration of an ocean bouy
 a Herbert Paus illustration
     
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a 1900 BB gun ADVERTISEMENT
a 1900 BB gun for boys without supervision      see full size
     
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copper BBs, a color photograph close up macro
copper BBs for a BB gun      see full size
   
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a 1960s Melvin Sokolosky fashion photograph
in the 1960s Melvin Sokolosky photographed fashion models in plastic bubbles ...
a suspension cable was later airbrushed out
  
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a 1963 Melvin Sokolosky fashion photo of a woman in a floating sphere
Melvin Sokolsky,  1963
  
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a Don Martin cartoon for MAD magazine, balloons and pea shooter
a Don Martin cartoon for MAD magazine
    
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a Franco Marinai photo of a sphere water tank
a Franco Marinai photo      see full size
     
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Maurits Cornelis Escher sphere
Maurits Cornelis Escher art, 1940s?      see full size
   
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Arnaldo Pomodoro art 1963
Arnaldo Pomodoro art,  1963
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Arnaldo Pomodoro art photograph
Arnaldo Pomodoro      see full size
        
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Daffy Duck hugs a pearl
tiny Daffy Duck hugs a pearl with greed
     
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a 1970 Automodule photograph
a 1970 Automodule,  the final wedge between this couple?        see full size
        
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a 1953 textile pattern by Knoll, Kramer on Seinfeld wore a shirt with this pattern
a 1953 textile pattern by Knoll ... television's Kramer on Seinfeld wore a shirt with this pattern
               
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a 1959 illustration of an orange with intentionally off-position color for loosenessa 1959 illustration with intentionally off-position color for looseness
               
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a cut-away view of an Etienne-Louis Boullee planetarium design
a cut-away view of an Etienne-Louis Boullee planetarium design 
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an Eliel Saarinen brass sphere coffee or tea set
Eliel Saarinen,  1910s?
               
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a Fred Taylor travel poster illustration 1922, woman with balloons at regattaa Fred Taylor travel poster illustration,  1922
               
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Orrefors crystal spheres advertisement with photograph, large diameterlighting spheres in 24" and 36" diameters:  Scandinavian design influenced the world
from the 1950s to early 1970s
               
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a large color illustration of a 1925 crystal ball
a 1925 crystal ball      see full size
               
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Disney animation, 1959 evil witch with wand in castle, color cel on background
Disney animation,  1959      see full size 
                
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1899 ornament wallpaper in color1899 ornament
               
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a Dorothy Lathrop 1968 scratchboard illustration of a snow globeDorothy Lathrop,  1968
               
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a 1966 refrigerator ad with future theme
futuristic silliness in this 1966 refrigerator advertisement 
. . . in film,  fashion and design,  the future was often
represented by spheres or the color white 
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Hans Hinterreiter art, 1959
Hans Hinterreiter art,  1959      see full size
   
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