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Author: Maira Kalman
Publisher: New York : Harper Design, 2014.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In 2011 [the author/artist] was invited by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City to curate an exhibit based on their collection. Like a shopper in some great, mad department store that housed many centuries' worth of objects, [she] browsed and inspected their archives for a year or so. The pieces that [she] chose were based on one thing only-- a gasp of delight."--Introduction.
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Genre/Form: Pictorial works
Named Person: Maira Kalman; Maira Kalman
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Maira Kalman
ISBN: 9780062122971 0062122975
OCLC Number: 893116114
Notes: "With more than fifty original paintings and featuring bestselling author and illustrator Maira Kalman's signature handwritten prose, My Favorite Things is a poignant and witty meditation on the importance of both quotidian and unusual objects in our culture and private worlds. Created in the same colorful, engaging, and insightful style as her previous works, which have won her fans around the world, My Favorite Things features more than fifty objects from both the Cooper-Hewitt and Kalman's personal collections: the pocket watch Abraham Lincoln was carrying when he was shot, original editions of Winnie-the-Pooh and Alice in Wonderland, a handkerchief in memoriam of Queen Victoria, an Ingo Maurer lamp, Rietveld's Z chair, a pair of Toscanini's pants, and photographs Kalman has taken of people walking towards and away from her. A pictorial index provides photographs of the actual objects and a short description of them"--Publisher's website.
Description: 145 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Introduction: The phone rings --
Part 1. There was a simple and grand life --
Part 2. Not far from the waving trees in Central Park : my favorite things from the Cooper-Hewitt --
Part 3. Coda, or Some other things the author collects and/or likes.
Responsibility: Maira Kalman.

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"In 2011 [the author/artist] was invited by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City to curate an exhibit based on their collection. Like a shopper in some great, mad department store that housed many centuries' worth of objects, [she] browsed and inspected their archives for a year or so. The pieces that [she] chose were based on one thing only-- a gasp of delight."--Introduction.

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"So friendly, so classic, so delightful ... Kalman has taken 'the little book' [The Elements of Style] and made it even more elegant and uplifting." -- Los Angeles Times "While The Elements of Style Read more...

 
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