Portrait of a Young Intellectual: Mauro Calamandrei, University of Chicago Student Photo ID, 1952 copper verdigris A nice little thing to

A nice little thing to hold in the hand--I think one might consider it an early fidget toy--or carry around in a pocket

I especially love the one with the very crooked beak

and I love how sleepy she looks

I'd hang it exactly as it is

This one feels to me like the best large building block ever extended into a great piece of tabletop architecture

Portrait of a Young Intellectual: Mauro Calamandrei, University of Chicago Student Photo ID, 1952 copper verdigris A nice little thing toI purchased this 1952 photo ID card because I liked the looks of him, and the fact that he was from Florence and had come to the University of Chicago to study I imagined a young architect wanting to immerse in Mies van der Rohe. (I love photo ID cards for this reason, providing just the right combination of information to imagine whole lives.) But as I was uploading photos here I decided to search for him, and turns out his real life was even more