Stylized heraldic design motifs for interior decoration.

Studies in design. 1876. Christopher Dresser.

Ants and bees share a plant. We Look About Us. 1932.

Bizarre Magazine covers from 1946-53.

Launched in the mid-1940s by British-born illustrator, photographer, and self-styled fetish visionary John Willie, Bizarre emerged from the shadowy correspondence networks of corset devotees, shoe worshippers, bondage enthusiasts, and readers who rarely saw their private desires reflected in public culture. Presented with the elegant camouflage of a “fashion fantasia,” the magazine combined photographs, letters, illustrations, advice, and Willie’s celebrated Sweet Gwendoline cartoons, carefully avoiding explicit nudity while creating a visual language charged with restraint, ritual, theatrical danger, and impossible glamour.

Red botanical wallpaper. Album P. R. Nouveautes 1937-1938.

"When we consider the visible world with its essence, and consider the life of the creatures, then we find therein the likeness of the invisible spiritual world, which is hidden in the visible world, as the soul in the body; and see thereby that the hidden God is nigh unto all, and through all; and yet wholly hidden to the visible essence."

— The Mysterium Magnum by Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)