A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand at odds with the monogram

at odds with the monogram

it was published by the Hayes Lithographing Co

making for a pair of striking and delightful boxes great for jewelry

I’m so intrigued by this tiny clay figure on horseback

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand at odds with the monogramI love this book, which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings, with a great sense of poetry to boot. Published by Oxford University Press in 1977, authors Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl King, Shlomo Angel) sought to identify essential, enduring design problems or "patterns" (of which they identify 253) and ways of approaching