Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms wicker covered flask If you zoom in

If you zoom in

Late 19th or very early 20th century and drawn on the reverse of a postcard-sized Parisian abeublements (furniture) shop

This double-sided graphite drawing and watercolor I purchased along with the rest of the c

Lots of context in which this could be great--and useful--hung on the wall

Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms wicker covered flask If you zoom inOne of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)