People often ask me what saws someone needs for woodworking, why some people have so many saws, and do I need one of every type. I can answer all three by giving you some historical background.
When one is a professional, working by hand, having a perfectly tuned tool is productive. Historically each trade had its own specialized equipment, more efficiently tuned for specific tasks than the generic version of the same tool.
In the United States, where houses were predominantly made of softwood, the generic 26″ crosscut saw more than suited most tasks.
For most carpenters specializing on one area of the trade, a very small number of saws were actually required. Speed was everything and there was nothing to be gained by using a dull tool, or the wrong tool. Duplicates were needed, so that as a tool started getting dull during the course of a day, one could switch to a sharp saw (and have someone else sharpen the dull one).
For a carpenter who did a diverse set of tasks, for example on flooring where the underfloor might be of pine and the finished flooring oak, separate saws filed for both soft and hard woods would be wanted. And that made professional sense.
But, and this is important, except for the most common saw–a handsaw used for crosscutting softwood, which rips abysmally–most saws can be used for most tasks. This is especially true with hardwoods, and our combo filed sash saw is basically a rip saw with a little negative rake and fleam so it cuts great on hardwood in all directions. But if I was cross-cutting pine 2×4’s all day I would want something with far more fleam and rake for faster action. “One size fits all” may not be appropriate for traditional professionals, but for everyone else one sharp saw is perfectly adequate.
What I own:
In my toolbox I have five saws. First up, two 26″ handsaws, both by Disston. About a decade ago I got the saw collector bug and found these.
Over the years my backsaws have evolved from a Sanderson I bought from Garrett Wade in the ’70s or ’80s (I don’t remember), and then some Adria saws, but now all of my backsaws are totally Gramercy Tools (which of course makes tons of sense) but I only use two backsaws, a Gramercy Tools Sash Saw and a Gramercy Tools Dovetail saw.
I used to use a cross-cut carcase saw, but don’t anymore as the sash saw is combo filed and fits the entire bill for sawing straight joinery cuts (except when you need a smaller saw). So I took it out of my tool box where it was wasting space.
In the near future I will probably add a BT&C Hardware store saw, simply because it’s shorter, cuts faster, and also useful for carrying around. I don’t do veneering (or haven’t yet) so I don’t own a veneer saw, and since I have a turning saw I don’t use a coping saw.
All my saws are sharpened for hardwood, but they work on pine in a pinch, if not ideally. When they get dull I get them sharpened (I don’t sharpen my own saws because it is far easier and better to let our saw sharpening service do it for me, and I can’t see the teeth anymore anyway. I don’t feel the need to have duplicates of the saws.
I have lots of saws I don’t use. I got them because I collect tools and they are a useful reference. By keeping the actual number of saws I use sharp and accessible and ignoring the rest, I don’t have to justify why I own so many saws, and waste time looking for the saw I actually want to use. It’s right there in my toolbox.
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This “Tools & Craft” section is provided courtesy of Joel Moskowitz, founder of Tools for Working Wood, the Brooklyn-based catalog retailer of everything from hand tools to Festool; check out their online shop here. Joel also founded Gramercy Tools, the award-winning boutique manufacturer of hand tools made the old-fashioned way: Built to work and built to last.
Bit of a mystery on yesterday morning’s dog walk. On the east side of Columbus Park I spotted these.
I wouldn’t touch these any more than I’d grab and shake a ticking backpack with wires sticking out of it. But I was curious, as these were purposefully placed where they are (away from the curbside trash pile) so I leashed the dogs tightly behind me and crept a bit closer to inspect these, careful not to come into contact with them.
They appear to be boxes filled with bottles that contain some kind of oil, judging by the blotting on the boxes. I can’t describe why, but when you see marks like this on cardboard you can tell it’s from oil, not regular liquid.
Why the 2x3s? My only guess is that they were placed atop the box to prevent local critters (the park is home to squirrels and, of course, rats) from getting into the box and gnawing the bottles open. Which suggests to me that someone left this oil here (for what purpose? To cool off?) and plans on retrieving it.
Not sure what “temp open” means, and can’t work out what’s written above that.
Across the street from this spot are two businesses, a deli and a funeral home. I might not have my choice with the latter, but I am definitely never going to patronize the former.
Oh, wait a second. Now that I’ve blown the photos up I see it says “Ultra 35” on the box, which I overlooked in person. Let me Google that. Be right back.
Okay, I’m back. Ultra 35 is a heating oil…for industrial furnaces. I’m guessing the funeral home does cremations.
Still can’t figure out why they left it outside, and this morning when I passed by they were gone.
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Organisers of the world’s biggest property event, MIPIM, have been attacked for their soft approach after vowing to “increase communications” with delegates about inappropriate behaviour at the male-dominated trade fair.
The criticism comes in the wake of the Financial Times’ exposure of the sexual harassment and assault experienced by female hostesses at a men-only charity dinner hosted by the Presidents Club earlier this month.
The allegations refocused the spotlight on behaviour at the sector’s notoriously male-dominated trade fair – MIPIM – a key networking event for architects and industry professionals held each year in Cannes, France.
As 2018’s edition fast approaches (13-16 March), reports of prostitution, sexual harassment and discrimination in previous years have resurfaced.
MIPIM gained the reputation of “not the property industry’s finest hour”
Trade publication Estates Gazette described MIPIM as “not the property industry’s finest hour“, in a story that revealed sex workers using the Twitter hashtag #mipim2016 to attract punters, damaging the reputation of the event and putting women off attending.
ZCD Architects co-founder Dinah Bornat, who attended with business partner Codula Weisser last year, told Dezeen prostitution was not limited to the after parties in clubs, bars and on yachts, but was very much present at the event itself.
Bornat, who was recently appointed a Mayor’s Design Advocate, took to Twitter to demand MIPIM and industry bodies take action to “sort this out”.
“We were shocked to find not only that it is a very male dominated environment, but that at the official opening party, open only to visitors with MIPIM passes, there were clearly a large group of what we would describe as prostitutes arriving later on in the evening,” Bornat told Dezeen.
Yesterday I had this reply from @MIPIMWorld. I’m not sure it’s good enough: our own PM taking better leadership on the issue of sexist and degrading behaviour in industry. I’d like @RIBA@nlalondon etc to issue statement. Let’s sort this out. Pls retweet https://t.co/UZIDqto7cK
In response to the allegations, MIPIM told Dezeen it would be directing delegates more firmly towards its code of conduct, which states its right to refuse entry or expell participants threatening the “image, peace or safety” of the event.
MIPIM to “increase communications” with delegates in light of Presidents Club allegations
“MIPIM’s top priority is to provide a safe and secure environment for all its participants to conduct their business. MIPIM has a code of conduct applicable to everyone attending the event,” said MIPIM director Ronan Vaspart in a statement sent to Dezeen.
“We will increase communications to all MIPIM delegates on the code of conduct. If we are informed of inappropriate behavior we will take action. MIPIM is committed to safeguarding the dignity and respect of all its participants.”
It said “additional measures” would be communications to delegates, who will pay €1,995 (£1,752) to attend the four-day high-profile networking event.
Industry bodies have been “mute” on sexual discrimination for too long
“MIPIM is heavily promoted by RIBA, NLA, local authorities and other organisations but they have remained mute on the subject,” said Bornat.
“Not only is this sexist and degrading but it sends out a clear message that this is how we network in our industry and quite frankly it stinks,” she added.
“As Theresa May herself put it: ‘This is about attitudes. It’s about saying that actually women are not objects just to be used by men. Actually we are equals, we have our own position, our own abilities and that should be respected’.”
This year, only 20 per cent of speakers and delegates at MIPIM will be women – up just one per cent from last year.
“There is a meeting in London with our (female) MIPIM conference director and Women Talk Real Estate, which was launched last year to promote women speakers at real estate conferences and in the media,” MIPIM’s head of communications, Mike Williams, told Dezeen.
“This meeting was set up BEFORE the Presidents Club incident as we are committed to increasing the number of women speakers at MIPIM,” he said, adding that all of MIPIM’s conference organisers are women.
Responding to MIPIM’s statement, NLA deputy chair Debbie Whitfield told Dezeen: “Things are changing but too slowly. The built environment professions have traditionally been male dominated.”
“NLA is doing its bit to speed things up. Our Inspiring Women programme supports and celebrates the role of women across the industry through lectures, debates and mentoring.”
Dezeen approached RIBA for comment, but at the time publication the body had not responded.
Dezeen has teamed up with French illustrator Jean Jullien and his animator brother Nicolas to create this exclusive film, in which Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder tells the story behind five of the American furniture brand’s chairs.
Jean and Nicolas Jullien, who work collectively as the Jullien Brothers, have illustrated products from across Emeco‘s 75-year history in the playful style that has marked Jean’s rapid rise to prominence as an illustrator in recent years.
Emeco’s classic Navy Chair was first produced in 1944 for the US Navy
Dezeen brought the duo and the furniture brand together almost a year ago, when Emeco asked us to suggest innovative ways to tell the brand’s story.
Since then, Dezeen has been working with the Pennsylvania-based brand and the London-based artists to produce the six-minute movie, which features Jullien’s trademark style of wry, amusing illustrations in pencil, brush pen and watercolour.
Created by Emeco founder Wilton Carlyle Dinges, the Navy Chair was originally designed for use on US Navy ships and submarines during World War II.
The Jullien Brothers created animated pencil drawings to illustrate the key qualities of the Navy Chair, a playful sequence that ends with two sailors using the chairs to hit each other over the head.
“The Navy had some stringent requirements,” Buchbinder explains in the film. “The chair had to be lightweight, fireproof, able to withstand the salt air and, most importantly, durable and hold up against the big burly sailors.”
Navy Chairs are made from recycled aluminium via a 77-step process
Made by hand from 80 per cent recycled aluminium at Emeco’s factory in Hannover, Pennsylvania, each Navy Chair is the result of a complex 77-step process, which transforms the soft raw material into a sturdy chair.
Making such a long-lasting product proved problematic for the company, which saw orders tail off significantly in the 1990s when the Cold War came to an end.
“The ships and submarines were used for scrap metal, but they saved these chairs because they were made so well,” Buchbinder says in the film, as the Jullien Brothers’ visuals show a man emerging triumphantly from a scribble of scrap metal holding a Navy Chair aloft.
Emeco guarantees each Navy Chair for life
Despite the declining orders, Buchbinder purchased the company in 1998. While the US Navy had stopped buying the chairs, he noticed that a host of leading designers were specifying them, illustrated in the film with a brush-pen drawing of Buchbinder reading through a seemingly infinite list of names.
One such designer was Philippe Starck, who placed a large order of chairs for the Paramount Hotel he designed for hotelier Ian Schrager in New York.
Gregg Buchbinder bought Emeco in 1998
“What I realised at that time was that the chair really had a future beyond the US Government,” Buchbinder says.
“I purchased the company and went off to New York to start selling chairs. Today you will find the chair everywhere – in restaurants, in hotels, in schools, in people’s homes. It’s a part of American history.”
Under Buchbinder’s leadership, Emeco developed new products, as well as a range of new recycled materials to make them with.
In 2010, it launched the 111 Navy Chair, a plastic version of the classic design made from 111 recycled PET bottles.
The project was initially a collaboration with Coca-Cola, which the Jullien Brothers have conveyed in the film by creating a whimsical Coke bottle-shaped character wearing a suit and tie.
Emeco’s 111 Navy chair is made from 111 recycled plastic bottles
“Emeco has used recycled materials from the very beginning,” Buchbinder explains. “Recognising this, Coca Cola approached us with a challenge – how to turn waste plastic bottles into a structurally sound chair.”
Emeco spent years developing a recycled plastic material that was strong enough. The resulting 111 Navy Chair is made from 65 per cent recycled PET, reinforced with 35 per cent glass fibre.
Emeco claims the 111 Navy Chair saves 10 million bottles from landfill every year
“Every year over 10 million bottles are kept out of the landfill,” Buchbinder claims.
“But more importantly, we’ve inspired so many other companies to follow suit and use this material.”
Emeco continued to research and develop new materials. Two years after the launch of the 111 Navy Chair, it launched Broom, a chair by Philippe Starck designed to be made from a mixture of waste plastic and wood.
Philippe Starck called Broom “a chair made from nothing”
The Jullien Brothers created a portrait of Starck sweeping up with a broom for this section of the film to explain the name of the chair.
“Philippe Starck called the chair Broom because it was the result of sweeping up factory waste and making it into a chair,” Buchbinder explains, “75 per cent of it is reclaimed polypropylene, 15 per cent is reclaimed wood from lumber.”
“Philippe Starck said it was a chair made from nothing because we didn’t use any virgin resources – it was all made from waste materials.”
Buchbinder attributes his environmentalism to his love of surfing
Buchbinder says that his drive for Emeco to develop new environmentally friendly materials comes from his love of surfing, which the Jullien Brothers depict with an illustration of a young Buchbinder waiting to catch a wave as dolphins leap above the surface of the sea.
“I would surf before school, after school and sometimes during school,” he recalls. “When you’re in the water, it heightens your awareness of the environment. That’s why I’m so passionate about taking care of it.”
In 2014, Emeco launched a range of stools called Su by Japanese studio Nendo, which is available in a range of environmentally friendly materials.
Oki Sato of Nendo wanted to use all of Emeco’s environmental materials
The seat of the stool, which is based on the shape of the seat on the original Navy Chair, can be ordered in eco concrete, cork, recycled plastic, or reclaimed barn wood, which is sourced locally from Amish woodworkers near where the Emeco factory is based.
In the film, the Jullien Brothers depict a woodworked carving a stool out of a large piece of wood.
The wood used in the seats of Su is sourced locally from Amish woodworkers
“Oki Sato of Nendo designed more than just a stool, he gave us a platform to explore some of our latest environmental materials,” says Buchbinder.
“Sato visited us in our R&D lab in Baltimore. We showed him all of the environmental materials that we had been experimenting with and asked him: ‘Which one would you like to use?’ And he said: ‘why don’t we use them all?'”
Emeco launched the 1 Inch chair by Jasper Morrison in Milan last year
The final chair featured in the film is the 1 Inch chair by British designer Jasper Morrison, which Emeco unveiled last year.
The chair is so-called because the profile of the square aluminium tube used to make it is just one inch wide.
The 1 Inch chair is made with a square aluminium tube, which is one inch thick
Developing the chair was a time-consuming back-and-forth process, which the Jullien Brothers convey with an animation of Buchbinder playing a game of table tennis with Morrison.
“This chair would have been easy with a round tube, but it was important to Jasper, and to us, to capture the look of Emeco,” Buchbinder says.
“Jasper would the design the shape of the frame and then the guys on the shop floor would bend it until the aluminium would fail. And this process went back and forth like a ping pong game until we were able to achieve the shape and comfort Jasper was after.”
Buchbinder describes working with Jasper Morrison as “like a ping pong match”
The aluminium frame of the 1 Inch chair is produced by hand using the same 77-step process as the Navy Chair, but it also features a seat and backrest made from a range of Emeco’s new recycled and environmentally friendly materials. As such, it can be seen to embody much of the company’s 75-year history.
The film ends with three Emeco chairs coming together to form a recycling sign.
“The 1 Inch chair combined all of the things that we are known for: our craftsmanship, our recycled aluminium, along with all the new recycled materials we are using,” says Buchbinder.
“At Emeco, I feel it is our responsibility to use recycled materials in everything we make. Hopefully we’ve inspired others to do the same.”
Buchbinder says he hopes Emeco has inspired others to use recycled materials
This film was produced by Dezeen for Emeco. Illustration, animation and music are by the Jullien Brothers.
Design studio Sasaki has completed a minimalist white pavilion and a glazed library for a growing university in Monterrey, with terraces that offer generous views of the city.
The Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, often referred to as Monterrey Tec, is situated on an urban site in the capital of Mexico’s northeastern state of Nuevo León. The institute has 29 campuses around the country, with the Monterrey location serving as its flagship.
The library and pavilion are part of a larger masterplan conceived by Sasaki, a multidisciplinary firm with offices in Boston and Shanghai. The firm was founded in 1953 by the late landscape architect Hideo Sasaki, who was born in California and taught at Harvard.
In 2015, the firm was commissioned to rethink the university’s educational model and to develop its spatial expression. The team devised a programme called the Tec 21 Educational Model, which addresses new ways of teaching and learning, the use of digital tools, a commitment to society rooted in humanitarianism, and the importance of interdisciplinary and collaborative learning.
“The work included thinking at both the level of the overall campus environment to more detailed work at the scale of the learning environment,” the team said.
“The latter included developing a toolkit of spaces that could be deployed on existing campuses, or in the planning of new academic buildings, to assist the university in implementing the new pedagogical model across existing infrastructure at the university’s 29 campuses across Mexico.”
The New Main Library sits on the site of a former library that was demolished. The team had hoped to renovate the original 1969 structure, but that plan proved too costly due to the need for major seismic upgrades.
The new building serves as “a place where students, faculty, staff and the region’s industry leaders come together to access information, study, collaborate and be inspired”.
The rectangular 17,000-square-metre building has a central light well that is crossed by sky bridges, and is externally clad in glass and metal fins.
The upper southeastern corner features a large terrace, where students can study and socialise while taking in their surroundings. The terrace is illuminated at night by long, large strips of light that traverse a wooden soffit.
The ground floor contains a cafe, an auditorium and a makers lab. A portion of the ground level was carved away, forming a sheltered student plaza.
The upper levels of the library encompass a range of functions, and offer views of the leafy campus and surrounding city.
“Comprising four floors of program elements, the library transitions from technology-rich collaborative study spaces at its base to quiet, contemplative study at the top,” the team said.
A central staircase extends from the plaza to a roof terrace, where students are afforded dramatic views of Cerro de la Silla, a prominent mountain that overlooks the campus.
Also completed by Sasaki, the Carreta Pavilion sits in a shaded garden within the symbolic and historic core of the campus. The 1,376-square-metre building offers a place for members of the university community to engage and collaborate, while also serving as a gateway structure.
“It serves as a point of arrival to campus and the first impression for visitors, conveying both the rich traditions and history of the university while also expressing its dynamic and innovative future,” the team said.
Topped with a vast flat roof, the minimalist, single-storey pavilion is approachable from all sides and is designed to be highly flexible. Its steel and glass envelope has a series of tall pivot doors, which can open and retract depending upon the number of occupants in the pavilion. The space can accommodate up to 450 visitors.
“With the ability to open entirely to its surroundings, the structure transforms into an open-air shelter in the heart of the campus,” the team said.
The pavilion’s structural grid lines take cues from surrounding buildings on campus. The glazed enclosure benefits from a large pergola, which “tames Monterrey’s direct sun impact and filters daylighting all around it”.
The building was mostly fabricated offsite as a kit of parts. It sits atop a conventional foundation with a basement that houses mechanical systems and storage space.
“This intentional approach to its design and construction allows the pavilion to function as a prototype that can be replicated on other campuses,” the team said.
The pavilion is designed to embody the shift in teaching taking place at Monterrey Tec, which is focused on a “challenge-oriented” curriculum.
“The pavilion is a critical display and presentation space to encourage research, invention, competition and collaboration across campus,” the team said. “For this reason, campus leadership considers la Carreta a symbol of the Tec 21 campus of the future.”
Other projects in Monterrey include an art and design school by Tadao Ando at the University of Monterrey, which has a blocky concrete form and a triangular void at its core. The city also has a steel museum designed by Grimshaw Architects, which features an old blast furnace that was converted into useable spaces.
I think the question that every parent dreads is, “What’s for dinner?” But beyond creating a plan for the evening meal, you can save time and money by planning your entire menu. Menu planning will also help you achieve other goals such as eating healthier. Here are some tips to get you started.
Determine health requirements
Health requirements vary by individual. Size, age, and physical activity all factor into determining calorie requirements. Some people may prefer to consume all of their calories in three large meals per day. Others, especially children, may prefer to get up half of their daily calories in snacks between smaller-sized meals so it is important that these be healthy snacks.
Take a look at a healthy eating chart. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has links to food guides in many countries around the world. Many guides will provide nutritional information for infants, children, youths, pregnant and nursing women, etc.
Estimate how much everyone in your family needs to eat based on the food guide recommendations. For example, you may need to prepare five servings of fruits and vegetables per child but up to 10 servings per active teenager.
Note any dietary restrictions such as religious observances, allergies, or intolerances. (Download this interesting pdf explaining allergies, intolerances, and food labelling!) Many grocery stores are expanding their selections of allergen-free foods as well as Halal and Kosher foods.
If you have certain preferences make sure they are noted. Some children can be picky eaters and what they like or do not like can change on an almost daily basis but if there is anything that is a definite no-go, (I hate beets!) cross those recipes off your list.
Consider seeing a professional to help you get started. Your family health care plan may include a consultation with a nutritionist or dietitian. If so, take advantage of this to help plan your menu.
Go through your cookbooks
Browse through your cookbooks and pull out any recipes that your family loves. You may have meals that you prepare on a regular basis without recipes. If so, list out all the ingredients for those meals. Note any ingredients in any of the recipes you wish change. For example, you could add chopped carrots or celery to a spaghetti sauce or substitute milk for cream in a cheese sauce.
Do you want to try some new recipes? Go right ahead but ensure you give yourself lots of time to prepare that meal. I would also recommend that you only try one new recipe per week — just in case it turns out to be too much work to prepare or your family doesn’t like it. If the new recipe is a big success, feel free to incorporate it into your menu plan in the upcoming weeks.
Create a master grocery list
Make a master grocery list of all of the ingredients to all of the meals you have chosen including meals other than dinner. Remember to include snacks such as fresh fruit, granola bars, etc., and other foods not found within recipes (e.g., breakfast cereal).
I have found preparing a list in a spreadsheet helpful. Create one column for the food item, another for its category. You can then sort foods by their category. It will make it easier to do the grocery shopping.
Planning the plan
Check the calendar. Families have busy schedules so look at your calendar and decide which nights of the week you have time to cook. A 30-minute meal may be perfect for Wednesdays when you’ve got some time between getting home from work and taking the kids to music lessons. A crock-pot meal might be just the thing when you have a bit of extra time in the morning to throw ingredients into the slow cooker.
Choose recipes with common ingredients. Preparing several meals during the week that use the same ingredients will avoid wasted food. For example, you might want to prepare spaghetti sauce, stir-fry, and soup in the same week to use up the entire bunch of celery. An occasional Caesar cocktail/mocktail will help finish up those celery stalks too.
Prepare more than you need when you can. When you’re chopping fruit and vegetables for a meal, chop extra for lunches and snacks the next day. Cook twice as much and use it the next day. For example, bake extra chicken breasts to use in sandwiches or casseroles the next day. Cooking more than you need for dinner will allow you to use leftovers in lunches on the following day.
Time savers: Pre-cut fresh and frozen vegetables and packages of grated cheese might be a bit more expensive but they will save you meal preparation time. Use free time on the weekend to make soups, casseroles, or other freezer meals, slice and dice garlic and onions, and wash and chop lettuce and other salad ingredients.
ALWAYS have a back-up meal planned
Ensure you always have the ingredients for a 30-minute meal ready. This could be something as easy as mac and cheese or a store-bought frozen casserole. Because no matter how much you prepare, at some point, something will go wrong. You will come home from work to find the electricity was off and your crock-pot full of raw meat and vegetables has been sitting at room temperature all day or your casserole dish will explode sending shards of glass all over the oven. (Both have happened to me.)
If you have any meal planning tips, feel free to share them with readers in the comments section.
You never know how dirty your spectacles are until someone tells you. At least I don’t. They gather fingerprints, dust, scratches galore and I literally need to be told to wipe them clean… and then I use the base of my shirt to wipe them, adding to the scratches because you’re supposed to use microfiber and not just any regular cloth. The spectacles are a rare case study of a product that transitioned from actually being a vision correction device to now being a style statement. In that jump from being a medical device to a fashion object, the spectacle lost its need to be given due treatment as a medical device.
So while some may say the Smartclean Vision.5 seems a little excessive, I say it’s a blessing. Fill it up with regular water (you could even use a drop of liquid soap too), switch it on, and leave your spectacles inside while the Vision.5 uses ultrasonic vibrations to agitate the water, allowing it to gently but efficiently clean any dirt, dust, grime, oil, smudges you may have on your spectacles. Probably a dozen times more effective than wiping your spectacles with a cloth, the Vision.5 cleanses every nook and cranny of your spectacles (even the dirt that accumulates around the nose-pad) and leaves them looking brand new in just five minutes. The size of a power bank, and available in a rather pleasant variety of colors, the Vision.5 can even be carried around with you, and you may just want to carry a microfiber cloth to wipe the water off your shiny, spotless spectacles. And no, we know what you’re thinking but it’s best if you don’t use these for your contact lenses… or murder weapons.
Reina Takahashi aka Reinasaur, une illustratrice et artiste de papier à San Francisco, a lancé un projet quotidien intitulé 100 Paper Breakfasts, où elle crée des versions papier de délicieux petits-déjeuners mangés par des gens de partout dans le monde. Des crêpes aux céréales les plus exotiques dim sums ou Marmite, ses interpretations de nourriture sont un régal visuellement satisfaisant. Voir le projet ici, et suivez Reina sur Instagram.
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