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Booths with lifting mechanisms for card catalogues in the Prague archive
The Prague Archive was fitted out with very convenient booths with lifting mechanisms for using vertically oriented card cabinets. Today all this is, of course, obsolete: card catalogues are being replaced everywhere by electronic ones, which is, in my view, a serious mistake, one we shall yet have cause to
NB! · Books · Ethnography
Pine canopy bed from County Waterford in Claudia Kinmonth's book on Irish country furniture
A canopied bed resembling a barrel. The decoration of the bed is stylised after the interior fittings of a large, wealthy house, while the bed itself is made of rather rough planks. Illustration from Claudia Kinmonth's book on Irish country furniture.
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Humour
Tolkien fans have spoken quite clearly about Amazon's new show based on the appendices to The Lord of the Rings
Evil cannot create anything new, it can only spoil and destroy what good powers have invented. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Evil can also spend billions buying up the rights and try to squeeze the maximum profit out of them.
Books · People · Humour
Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter
I don't mind people looking at their watches while I lecture, but I can't bear it when they hold them to their ears to check that they haven't stopped. The French playwright and screenwriter Marcel Achard
Books · Observations · Nature · Humour
The play of young mares in Leo Tolstoy’s “Kholstomer” recalls the behaviour of coquettes
“The yearlings, the young fillies, already pretend to be grown-up and staid, and seldom skip about or join the merry companies. They graze decorously, arching their swan-like, close-cropped necks, and, as though they too had tails, flick their little brooms. Like the grown horses, some lie down,
NB! · Cinema · Books · Observations · Pop Culture · Ethnography
As for the images from "Quiet Flows the Don", I was reminded of Ulyana Sergeenko's 2019 collection, which was inspired precisely by this screen adaptation of the novel
As for the images from "Quiet Flows the Don", I was reminded of Ulyana Sergeenko's 2019 collection, which was inspired precisely by this screen adaptation of the novel. One can make out lace masks, prints on fabric with steppe landscapes, and headscarves
Cinema · Books · Observations · Ethnography
Aksinya and Darya veil their faces with scarves in the haymaking scene of “And Quiet Flows the Don”
Strange, really, that with the epidemic upheavals in fashion no designer has borrowed the manner of swathing the whole face in a headscarf from Aksinya and Darya in the haymaking scene of "Quiet Flows the Don". How elegant, and how wonderfully original! The text describes it simply, without
Books · Observations · Society
There will yet be accusations against the author from so-called patriots, who sit quietly in their corners occupied with wholly unrelated affairs, piling up little fortunes and arranging their own fate at the expense of others; but the moment something ha
There will yet be accusations against the author from so-called patriots, who sit quietly in their corners occupied with wholly unrelated affairs, piling up little fortunes and arranging their own fate at the expense of others; but the moment something happens that they consider offensive to the fatherland, some
NB! · Books · Education · Paris
The Library of the Sorbonne
NB! · Books · London · People
Virginia Woolf, the British writer, was born 140 years ago
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Marko
An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Markova. The painting, which was considered lost