What do you COLLECT ?

[Muse_Views]

What do you COLLECT?

Illustrations
Paintings
Sculptures
Furnitures
Decorative Arts
Artist's Books
ETC...


-I collect paintings of contemporary artists with whom I have often worked, as a curator. I also collect contemporary hand-made semi-precious jewelry.

I started this thread in the Art & Design section because as an art historian I am interested in what artists and designers, or those interested in the arts, COLLECT.

[BerlinRocks]

i keep all the exhibition invitations and posters, i've been to (or not, sometimes) in archive boxes.
i have a few artist books.
and kept some stuff from my father important collection of "worked" paper that i made framed ...
i would love when will earn more money to buy artworks. but i think i could start now with drawings .... 100-200€ isn't huge, afterall ....

[gius]

i had no idea i was such a pack rat.. because i hate having things (since i move homes all the time)

• stamps
• pictures from children's books
• kinds of yarns
• materials samples.. fabric swatches, lace, plastics, paper pieces... i have them in a binder. i also have a book of ones i made...
  
• colour palettes on the hard drive
  
• spices
• kinds of oil
• kinds of vinegar
• kinds of tea
  
• & old foreign music of course...

[fashionified]

art books, i have quite a number of them, most is from japanese artist
vampire books..
various paintings and illustrations
various photograph

and well.. i always222 collect TONS of pictures from an artist, or an idol that i like...

[Muse_Views]

Originally Posted by gius

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• spices
• kinds of oil
• kinds of vinegar
• kinds of tea
  

Do you collect these and preserve them...or, do you simply enjoy using a variety of them on daily basis?! And, if you 'Collect' them, what criteria do you use...?

[kasper!]

album of traditional chinese painting
book about fashion photography

and..of course..fashion magazines

[gius]

Originally Posted by Muse_Views

Do you collect these and preserve them...or, do you simply enjoy using a variety of them on daily basis?! And, if you 'Collect' them, what criteria do you use...?

I like using them on a daily basis
I don't think I use any criteria... It's easy to have a collection of spices because I buy some for a recipe I just learned, and then I have extra spice left over...
So I usually start with a recipe and then the collection builds up from there

The only thing is that I don't really have any use for cloves, but I think they look really interesting (un-ground cloves)... So they're more an 'inspiration item'

I can't make the spices
but I can make different flavoured oils... called fused oils
and also some vinegars and teas can be made yourself
A lot of the tea I have are gifts from friends, through the mail

[vogue28]

vogue uk
vogue paris
vogue italia
elle uk
dior, chanel and louis vuitton advertisements

... seriously nothing else

[flyingace]

^^ collecting tea, that's very interesting.

I collect shells, have them all clasified in separate boxes, I collect coins as well, and photographs of rocket launchings, people usually don't want them and give them to me.
I don't know if it's considered a collection but I've been keeping all the tickets from things I buy since a couple of years ago .
I also have a nice growing collection of superman comics. And finally I used to collect star wars figurines , it may not look like it, but it's quite an expensive addiction, thank god I don't do it anymore.

[Kaki]

I collect artbooks from Japanese artists as well!
Additionally, I have some photography books, and I collect postcards that are sent to me from around the world (through postcrossing).

[kuli_trendy]

i collect:
-tea
-fashion advertisment
-magazine with lots of good photos
-free ads
-paper bag
-anime toys

[Juliax]

Music, my photos and videos, sexy underwear, tee, models photos and videos, magazines...

[Joao]

Stationery

[gius]

^ ! Oh i forgot that one
Me too
It's been a long time since I wrote air mail
but I have a big collection from high school
everytime I go to Chinatown...

[shellze_07]

Handbags