Kuriosas

Editor - 20th century buildings, book covers, illustration, design & objects of intrigue from the past | Artist & Photographer

[Amelia Soth @AmeliaSoth]

This tiny boxwood peapod (~4 inches) was carved in the 1500s. It opens to reveal little peas, and then those peas open to reveal little carved stories

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

Me preparing for my first Zoom arts and wellbeing session - exploring the colour pink with vulnerable adults in #Brighton for @WellsbourneC . We created pink rabbits together #covidartcreation #creativehealth #artsinhealth #mentalhealth

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Mushrooms" Soviet poetry book for kids, 1930

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

The Jumping Gnome - amazing acid brights on this beautiful children's book published by Partridge Publications in the 1940s https://t.co/eRYHvLuk3b

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

From the Kuriosas archive is this incredible German film making book from the 1920s with a hand crafted cover, found at a Berlin fleamarket #bookart #rarebooks https://t.co/g4GuQaTYr6

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

Very happy to have discovered the beguiling and beautiful work of Finnish illustrator Outi Markkanen via a 1978 forgotten tome in a rural Finnish charity shop - more on Kuriosas here: https://t.co/wDgYRvC9B4

[Daniel Benneworth-Gray @gray]

The candy pastel perfection of old Russian houses. https://t.co/1v0iTk9M7P

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

Fantasising about self-isolation in the beautiful #Modernist Schminke House in Germany, designed by seminal architect Hans Scharoun in the early 1930s https://t.co/O49NWVEkzx

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

Some #isolationdistraction here - love this charmingly lo-fi 1970s GDR geometry book https://t.co/2rjvawiw77

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

@laurenlaverne @BBC6Music Bill Fay -The Garden Song is so charming....parsley, spiders, greenfly all get a mention, 70s Good Life vibes! https://t.co/kw90eI9oky

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

@DanDavisWrites @RadicalEssex ooh the dream eh!

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

Isolation eye fodder - a recent trip to Frinton on Sea in Essex (that now feels like it was a lifetime ago) but was full of incredible Art Deco splendour like these beauties, designed by architect J T Shelton in the 1930s @RadicalEssex #isolationescapism #architecturalhistory

[🌷Soviet Postcards🌷 @SovietPostcards]

Make your own Cheburashka - cover and illustration from a DIY sewing book. Artists G. and V. Karavayev (1976)

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

@robertpopper Newt Order

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

@LulahEllender Whooop! x

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

New post on Kuriosas this morning about a trip to the fascinating Alexandrowka Russian Colony near Berlin - like stepping back into 1830s Russia (with great dumplings too) https://t.co/76yNWlNJKR #russia #berlin #architecture

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

New post on Kuriosas today on my trip to the the cosmic Jested Tower TV transmitter and hotel in Czech republic, designed in the early 1960s and with most of it's original Modernist interiors intact #coldwardesign #architecture https://t.co/7akXX1dycP

[Kuriosas @ali_winstanley]

@rhiaction Christ hope you're okay Rhi xxx

[Present & Correct @presentcorrect]

The colourful delights of off season motels in New Jersey.
https://t.co/5k5VRx0lTc

Via @edwardmbishop @creativeboom

[Present & Correct @presentcorrect]

More coastal palettes & pattern. The balconies of Jesolo Beach in Venice.

https://t.co/YnJkHaYt7y