House Numbers

Good tools earn their place. Great tools become legends. Take this one from Victorinox. At first glance, it’s almost toylike – a slim red companion no bigger than your house key. But there’s serious heritage here. The blade slices through packaging like it’s butter. The scissors snip with Swiss precision. The nail file doubles as…

This pioneering book offers a rare and unsettling look into the secret world of Russian criminal tattoos. Compiled over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev, the photographs, drawings and texts within these pages reveal an elaborate coded language – one that conveys the stories, rituals and traditions of an isolated subculture. Skulls, swastikas, religious…