Seeing ↔ Making / Model Arcade

Please allow 6 working days to process before shipping Paper model, handmade, cut & paste. 4 color Riso-print + transparency. 4.75” x 7.75” – 1:100 seeing-making-room.net A mid-nineteenth-century guidebook described the arcade as “a city, a world in miniature, in which customers will find everything they need.” “Horkheimer had suggested to Benjamin that a “materialist study” of Baudelaire that would be of interest to the Institute. At this time Benjamin was also extensively engaged with his Arcades studies, and attempted to use Baudelaire to set down the major motifs of the PassagenWerk: “I already foresaw this tendency of Baudelaire to configure itself as a sort of miniature model [Miniaturmodell] of the book [Passagen-Werk] in conversations with Teddie [Adorno]. Since San Remo, this has been confirmed to a greater degree than I had thought…”56 D “The “miniature” model in Benjamin is a prevalent idea, and can be taken as a particular fragmentary assemblage meant to represent