{"product_id":"speck-a-curious-collection-of-uncommon-things-1568982976","title":"SPECK: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1568982976\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Buchanan-Smith, Peter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Speck, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed page, asks artists, designers, lawyers, writers, collectors, and photographers to explore our obsessions with the small objects that loom large in our everyday lives.To wit: Maira Kalman empties people's pocketbooks; Nicholas Blechman and Jesse Gordon trace the history of the oldest piece of dust; David Horrowitz catalogs manhole covers; and Peter Buchanan-Smith unearths a 1966 high school yearbook and transcribes the inscriptions (\"To a real sweet and cute guy with a great personality. Remember English III\").Speck also shows how \"ordinary\" people can fascinate as much as \"ordinary\" objects: an interview with shoe shiner Harry Kitt, Manhattan's last practitioner of the dry-shine, photographs taken by a blind man on a sight-seeing tour, and a barber's extensive collection of earth, water, and air from around the world ask us to re-think our assumptions about the commonplace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51866491388192,"sku":"NEW1568982976","price":97.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/6117mq3j4kL.jpg?v=1781678129","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/speck-a-curious-collection-of-uncommon-things-1568982976","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}