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From Cuddly Toy to Personality

The Quiet Future of a Familiar Companion
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Small brown teddy bear sitting on the left side of a neutral sofa against a white wall

For now, the classic cuddly toy still lies mostly silent on the sofa or at the head of the bed. Yet as machines learn to speak, the role of these familiar objects that have accompanied people for...

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Time as a Trophy

Mechanical Perfection Between Memory and the Present
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Book cover of Ultimate Collector Watches by Charlotte & Peter Fiell featuring a rose gold Patek Philippe wristwatch on a black background

„Ultimate Collector Watches“ brings together objects that measure time and shows how strongly time today is understood as something to be preserved. Not as experience, but as form. What matters...

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Shine Between Being and Seeming

Costume Jewelry as Cultural Dynamism and a Coded Image of Modernity
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Cover of the TASCHEN book Costume Jewelry, featuring colorful vintage brooches including a jeweled octopus, a parrot with a green stone, cherries, a fish, and a hand-shaped pendant.

With remarkable visual force, “Costume Jewelry” stages the history of American costume jewelry. At the same time, ideas of freedom, style, and social ascent become visible. What is most compelling is...

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Machine and Myth

How TASCHEN Creates a Monument to Speed with Ferrari
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Ferrari XL book by Pino Allievi published by TASCHEN

A book like an engine block: cool, gleaming, precise. “Ferrari XL” does not only want to tell a story but to embody one. It is less a declaration of love than a monument – a testament to the idea of...

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