He is the author of "Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).
"Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things," a new book by Peter Gordon Buchanan-Smincludesludesuchchomelyly things as a stack of laundry lint from one woman's dryer, a lineup of misspellings of one artist's name and a collection of worn-down lipsticks.
For his thesis project at the School of Visual Arts, which he later turned into a book, "Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things," published by Princeton Architectural Press, he invited artists and other obsessives to explore everyday ephemera — things like dust, the inside of a pocketbook, the bottoms of sneakers — in words and pictures.
After World War I, during the peak of German inflation, Speck bought a large Faust collection at half-price and traded autographs of President William Howard Taft for autographs and memorabilia of Goethe.
He was proud that for the first time in a Lagerfeld couture collection he did not have a speck of navy or black (except a self-referential necktie on an ivory satin column).
Haynesworth's agent, Chad Speck, said his client would appeal.
Finally, Speck decides to show Just the Senator's Cruche collection.
When they do, it is for a 20-minute stay to snap photos from a wharf, the largest flat surface on this 46-acre collection of two main islets and dozens of other specks of land.
The first 6,000 items that formed the William A. Speck collection of Goetheana, acquired in 1913, came to Yale with Mr. Speck himself as the first curator of the German collection.
This collection of essays has tremendous range: amoebae to the Andromeda galaxy; specks of dust to planetary motion; redemption to the brute facts of suffering.
They had an impressive collection of books and DVDs, sure, but their utter inability to fabricate any miniscule speck of convincing enough bullshit completely turned me off.
