A seashell once sold for six times the price of a Vermeer. 🐚
Rare shells were the sneakers of the 1700s: collected, hoarded, shown off, never worn. So for the Recraft × Contra Archive Style Challenge, I turned a 1758 shell book by Franz Michael Regenfuss into a mock sneaker...
The Shell Drop: six sneakers grown from a 1758 shell book, and the collectors who will never wear them.
In the open collections of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, I found Franz Michael Regenfuss's Choix de coquillages (Copenhagen, 1758): hand-coloured engravings made for...
