This 1900 sculpture depicts an ethereal snail-woman hybrid with a delicate human face emerging from antennae and shell.

12.25 x 11 in. (31.1 x 27.9 cm.) ...

It is difficult to convey the giddy joy I felt one day in Berlin-that gray grid of a city-upon opening an unsuspecting gate and feeling in my hand no ordinary doorknob, but iron in the shape of a ...