Austin Radcliffe is the author of the well-known Tumblr on which this book is based, Things Organized Neatly. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and now works as a professor and freelance curator. Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier's 1952 Unite d'Habitation using only foamcore and a glue gun. Other projects have included his versions of various Cold War masterpieces, like the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module, and the bridge of the battleship USS Enterprise. And because no engineering project is more complex and pervasive than the corporate ecosystem, he's done versions of those, too, including a McDonald's he built using plywood, glue, assorted kitchen appliances. He's also done Hello Kitty and her friends in materials ranging from foamcore to bronze.
"The Things Organized Neatly Blog, which celebrates the
kentucky art of knolling, is now a gorgeous, essential book
filled with photos of meticulously arranged wonders of all
description."
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"If you're obsessive when it comes to arranging items on a
table in a particular order (with everything sitting in perfect
right angles, perhaps) but live with a toddler who can't help
himself from turning your home into disorganized chaos, then
[Things Organized Neatly] may help calm your nerves."
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"If you're a neat freak - and I'm convinced almost everybody has a
little bit of neat freak inside them - then Things Organized
Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everday may be the most satisfying
photo book you could possibly purchase. . . In short, it's like a
warm bath for your brain: no item out of place, everything arranged
perfectly by size, color, shape, type, or all of the above."
-PetaPixel
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