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

the raven is a sacred figure in Northwest Coast native cultures

it was published by the Hayes Lithographing Co

possibly dating from as early as the late 18th century

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