The <n>Petrol</n> gas station in Ljubljana, a <n>Brutalist</n> structure by <n>Milan Mihelič</n>, 1968.

Photograph of the <n>16th Street Station</n> in Oakland by <n>Madina Aryeh</n>, 2017.

A devotional object known as <n>Cuore con sette spade</n>, representing the Sorrowful Heart of Mary.

The <n>White Rose</n> from the 1951 <n>Walt Disney Productions</n> film <n>Alice in Wonderland</n>.

Author <n>Joan Didion</n> in her Malibu kitchen with a <n>Le Creuset</n> Dutch oven, 1976. Photo by <n>Henry Clarke</n> for <n>Vogue</n>.

<n>Bok Choy</n>, a 2017 collage by artist <n>Martha Haversham</n>.

Lohengrin - Wikipedia

<n>Lohengrin</n>, a 1895 painting by <n>Walter Crane</n>.

A collection of botanical photographs by artist <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>.

“Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.”

—Kierkegaard, in the margins of his journal (1848)

A bedroom in the palazzo of <n>Jorge Parra</n>. Photo by <n>Pablo Zamora</n> for <n>ICON Design</n>.

Interior scene from the portfolio of <n>Jessica Hayns</n> for <n>The World of Interiors</n>. Photo by <n>Bill Batten</n>.

<n>Man in a Bowler Hat</n> (1964), a <n>Surrealist</n> painting by <n>René Magritte</n>.

Richard Olney's rhapsodic embrace of  improvised composed salads...

"*To baptize this kind of* salad canaille*, underlining the French affection for the delinquent and the demi-monde, is to suggest a quality of refreshing vitality allied to insolence—a certain flaunting refusal to respect accepted formulas. And, indeed, one need not often respect any of the endless and precisely defined classical recipes for composed salads (Niçoise, Waldorf, Andalouse, Mimosa, Francillon, Bagration, and so forth interminably) to be struck with the puerility of such a pastime and to realize how much more valuable and exciting is the imaginative and playful, self-renewing invention of a giant composed salad, never once repeated, its composition dictated by the materials at hand. And, given the fanciful but far from frivolous presence of flowers and a sufficient variety of green things, presented in a vast, wide ceramic or earthenware vessel (you need the space for easy tossing and the large surface for decorative effect), nothing in the entire repertory of food possesses the same startling, vibrant visual immediacy—the same fresh and casual beauty. It is a concentrated, pulsating landscape of garden essences and must absolutely be tossed at table, for, no matter how delicious, the visual explosion of joy, mixing intricately and lastingly with your guests’ memories of mingled flavors, adds a dimension."*

A scene from <n>Disney</n>'s <n>Fantasia</n> (1938), depicting the <n>Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies</n>.

<n>Christy Turlington</n> photographed by <n>Patrick Demarchelier</n> for <n>Vogue</n> in 1990.

The original <n>Apple</n> logo, designed by <n>Ronald Wayne</n> in 1976, depicts <n>Sir Isaac Newton</n>.

Patti Smith's lettuce soup recipe

<n>Patti Smith</n> reading her recipe for lettuce soup at a <n>Brain Pickings</n> event.

Actor <n>Elle Fanning</n> for <n>Self Service</n> magazine, photographed by <n>Venetia Scott</n>.

Joan Didion’s Favorite Recipes

Author <n>Joan Didion</n> in her Malibu kitchen with a <n>Le Creuset Dutch Oven</n>, 1976. Photo by <n>Henry Diltz</n>.

Artwork by <n>Martha Haversham</n> created from celery and paper.