A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand making for a pair of

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

as if subtly pointing toward what lies at its center

The hand thrown vase is signed at the bottom

*Knife sharpener box he is standing on sold separately

He was a faculty member at the Cambridge School of Weston

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand making for a pair ofI 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