As the year moves into autumn, the leaves give over to gold and brown, and the calendar drops its last pages. And so, in preparation of the year’s end, Taschen expands its libraries from the bookshelves to the calendars on your walls and desktops. With month-tracking motifs ranging in everything from the arts to the […]
16
Sep
Track the days & nights with a legend in pin-up art
20
May
Only 100 American made Peter Driben lighters
In case you haven’t figured it out, we’re kind of obsessed with vintage pin-up girls and basically everything they represent. The difference between Vargas and Elvgren-era pinups and modern Maxim centerfolds is the difference between burlesque and Peppermint Rhino strippers, and if that’s unclear then you’re probably at the wrong site. So the discovery of […]
15
Apr
The innocent eroticism of master pin-up artist Gil Elvgren
There are some pivotal historical events that are integral we all learn as Americans, lest we forget the soul of our nation and what it stands for. There are aspects of the formative years of our culture that if we let fade into the ether of yesteryear, we threaten to fray the very fiber of […]