The Thickets of Long Ago

"Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger’s leap into the past,"
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940

Eugene Corbin - French camouflage - 1914
via Complex

Mela Koehler - Wiener Werkstaette fashion illustration - 1910-4
via The Blue Lantern

Unknown artist - French camouflage prototypes - 1914

Move the world

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

Archimedes 

Koloman Moser - Sideboard and Fireplace for Moser’s Guest Room - 1902

Ivo Pannaggi - Casa Zampini - 1925 

Friedrich Kiesler - City in Space - 1925

Number, Measure, and Law

"We need number, measure, and law as armor and as a weapon, lest we be swallowed up by chaos."

Oskar Schlemmer, Perspektiven, 1932

quoted by Beau H Rhee

Koloman Moser - Flower basket S 781 - 1906

Giuseppe Terragni - Casa del Fascio - Como - 1932

Sol Lewitt - 21B - 1989
via Archive of Affinities