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MC Escher: Kaleidocycles
Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker
Taschen £34.15
IF DOOMSCROLLING has become a bad habit in an era when the pandemic and war force your nervous fingers to obsessively seek out breaking news of the apocalypse, then Kaleidocycles is the perfect antidote.
It is a tailor-made diversion for stressful times that requires you to turn off your screen and use your hands more creatively in order to assemble intriguing card patterns inspired by the work of MC Escher.
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