My Favorite Things
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062122975 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. She is a contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Times. Born in Tel Aviv, she lives in New York City. Maira Kalman is an author and illustrator of numerous books for adults and children
From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, comes this beautiful pictorial and narrative exploration of the significance of objects in our lives, drawn from her personal artifacts, recollections, and selections from the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.With more than fifty original paintings and featuring bestselling author and illustrator Maira Kalman’s signature handwritten prose, My Favorite Things is a poignant and witty meditation on the importance of both quotidian and unusual objects in our culture and private worlds.Created in the same colorful, engaging, and insightful style as her previous works, which have won her fans around the world, My Favorite Things features more than fifty objects from both the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Kalman’s personal collections: the pocket watch Abraham Lincoln was carrying when he was shot, original editions of Winnie-the-Pooh and Alice in Wonderland, a handkerchief in memoriam of Queen Victoria, an Ingo Maurer lamp, Rietveld
I will be giving this book The Principles of Uncertainty to everyone I love.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love) . “So friendly, so classic, so delightful Kalman has taken ‘the little book’ The Elements of Style and made it even more elegant and uplifting.” (Los Angeles Times)“While The Elements of Style has never lacked fans or dutiful adherents, appreciation for this slim volume has taken a turn toward the whimsical and even
"A New Level of Genius !" according to Paris fan. I have long been a Maira Kalman fan, but in this book she has moved to a new level of genius! Gertrude Stein said that it was hard being a genius since you need to sit around all day doing nothing. Well, not sitting around and doing something--walking, observing, collecting, drawing, painting, writing, curating, thinking, remembering, LIVING ( and I'm sure occasionally sitting on broken chairs found on the street!), have taken Maira Kalman. Lindsey Dawson said Ideas, memories, colours, sighs. A lovely thing, this book. Contemplative, tender, amusing, droll, perceptive. Ideal for those with magpie minds who like to mull things over and have their own collections of memories - and wish they had the wit and talent to gather them together in similarly creative ways. Writers, artists and curators of all things whimsical will delight in these pages. Kalman's hand-writing is also a delight - not a whiff or Arial, Verdana or Times New . "A Lovely Book About Art with a Bit of Memoire Thrown In" according to Spencer in Seattle. This is another lovely, creative, fun, and touching book from Maira Kalman. She begins the book, which is richly illustrated in her clever art, with a short memoire. Funny accounts and touching stories fill out a sense of where she comes from in this section. Next comes the description of her curation experience at the Whitney.The cool thing about this book is that it's an account of how she currated a set of pieces at the Whitney, finding