A brief follow-up to last year’s post on the centenary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s legendary Tokyo hotel, now rapidly receding in first-hand re...

Another Cadbury brochure published to explain the business of chocolate manufacturing to the general public, based on the notion that the pu...

We like to think of embarrassment as a uniquely British thing but the concept is present in every known language. It’s especially prevalent ...

This guide to the uses of paper is a typical mid-century publication aimed at schools, offering free learning materials in return for a chan...

Throughout the 1950s, car designers in Detroit stretched and expanded their vehicles in all dimensions while applying ever more extravagant ...

One thing on which all Americans can agree, red state and blue state alike, is the dreadful condition of British teeth.  Just compare their ...

Two paintings commissioned by custard manufacturers, Alfred Bird & Sons hang on the walls of Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery.  Wr...