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A Part Apart, Spenser Atlas

Masters Theses

I am fascinated by connections. Things that click, snap, slide, and hold. I care about the ways in which objects meet, looking for answers in the space between. What binds one thing to another?

I believe the world is presented to us in pieces. It’s hard to say how it all comes together. It's easy to believe things are shapeless and detached from each other. Connection is a bridge, a way of linking one thing to another that reveals interdependence, and eventually moves outwards to express a correlation between pieces, once assumed to be discrete and isolated.

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International Sterling Hollow Ware / International Silver Co., International Silver Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Silver

159, 146, 90 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), 32 cm. De Luxe Bound Edition of the 1929 Catalog of International Sterling Hollow Ware, Flatware and Novelties. This book contains a complete representation of the Sterling Silver products of the Wilcox & Evertsen, the Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., and the Watrous Mfg. Co. divisions of this company. -- Fine Arts Division, International Silver Co."-- mailing insert. Blue cloth spine, decorated paper over boards, printed in silver, black, red, light blue, and gray on off-white paper. Cover features a geometric art deco design. Includes index. Trade catalogue, with prices. Purchased …