A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand and would be wonderful on

and would be wonderful on the bedside table

as if subtly pointing toward what lies at its center

at odds with the monogram

possibly dating from as early as the late 18th century

making for a pair of striking and delightful boxes great for jewelry

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand and would be wonderful onI love this book, which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings, with a great sense of poetry to boot. Published by Oxford University Press in 1977, authors Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl King, Shlomo Angel) sought to identify essential, enduring design problems or "patterns" (of which they identify 253) and ways of approaching