This week on my drawing board

Jetsetter, a fabric design inspired by mid-century air travel

Now available on Society 6

American Airlines Inflight Meal c.1960s.

Los Angeles International Airport

Sabena Airlines First Class Lounge with Alfred Hendrickx S3 Chairs, Brussels, 1958 via Mid-Centuria — Sabena Airlines First Class Lounge with Alfred Hendrickx S3 Chairs, Brussels, 1958 via Mid-Centuria

Mary McGloughlin, Idlewild Airport, New York, 1957. Photo credit:Jerry Schatzberg

Abstract Saturday: Ben Nicholson, British (1894-1982)

Exhibition sign painted by Nicholson 1933. From BBC.CO

Feb 2-54 Ben Nicholson via Tate.org

Feb 55 1955 Ben Nicholson OM 1894-1982

Feb 28-53 (vertical seconds) 1953 Ben Nicholson OM 1894-1982

Ben Nicholson, Still Life: Crystal, 1948, Oil and pencil on canvas (Milwaukee Art Museum)

Ben Nicholson 1934 (still life - Birdie) via

This week on my drawing board

Kamp*out fever fabric design

Kamp*out fever

A selection from the book shop

A little browsing among the virtual dusty leaves at Nick Harville Libraries unearths these delightful tomes.

LEFT BANK, RIGHT BANK, PARIS AND PARISIANS 1952 First UK edition. The jacket art is signed H. Willard. $125 — LEFT BANK, RIGHT BANK, PARIS AND PARISIANS 1952 First UK edition. The jacket art is signed H. Willard. $125

Morse, A. Hastings. Blondes Prefer Gentlemen. First Edition. 1938., Sold $475 — Morse, A. Hastings. Blondes Prefer Gentlemen. First Edition. 1938., Sold $475

FRANK SWINNERTON, SKETCH OF A SINNER (MORRIS OF PARIS DUST JACKET) First American Edition. 1929. $75 — FRANK SWINNERTON, SKETCH OF A SINNER (MORRIS OF PARIS DUST JACKET) First American Edition. 1929. $75

IN BED WE CRY, SIGNED TO GEORGE CUKOR BY ILKA CHASE. First edition, 1943 $250 Dust jacket illustration by Constantin Alajalov.

+ Nick Harville Libraries

This week on my drawing board

Rent a goat

Rent a goat, the sketchbook

Hairstyles of the 40s, sketchbook

Home for the holidays card design

Another holiday card design

Spineless jellyfish sketchbook

Konsumerism run amok

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