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Made by Hanayama of Japan

These Uncut Sheets of playing cards were pulled straight off the factory press at the United States Playing Card Company before being cut and boxed

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the two triangular wedges are specially notched so that they can be stacked for display when not in use

Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism Collaboration and purpleheart—snap together to formDuring the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion and ecological limits, attitudes toward the environment became social, political and ideological. Published to accompany the first expansive survey of the history of environmental thinking in architecture, Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism looks at the role architects have played in