Rousseau: The Dream, One on One Series - Paperback AAPI Distinguished by its upside-down wishbone-shaped

Distinguished by its upside-down wishbone-shaped back and slender

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Designed by Jasper Morrison for FLOS

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this rug design from Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec reinterprets the traditional Persian rug by using ancient kilim techniques

Rousseau: The Dream, One on One Series - Paperback AAPI Distinguished by its upside-down wishbone-shapedBy Ann Temkin Henri Rousseau was a singular figure in the early twentieth century avant garde, a self taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customs inspector at the age of forty nine. Although he never left Paris, Rousseau painted a number of jungle scenes, drawing on images of the exotic as presented to the urban dweller through popular literature, colonial expositions, and the Paris zoo. The Dream (1910), the artist's last major work,