Awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor

and Dreamland

The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes

and quotes from pre-Columbian cultures in his design

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison Upcycled Awarded an Asian/Pacific American AwardBy what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre industrial society. The