It produces pulp from raw wood, but also boasts state-of-the-art machines to make the speciality papers that constitute most of its production.

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He was lucky, after finishing his doctoral thesis, (on Giulio Romano, a Mannerist painter), to be invited to London to edit the papers of a great German art historian, Aby Warburg.

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Lament the lost art of letter writing at this shop, which sells gorgeous handmade stationery, diaries, and wrapping papers embellished with a (previously) near-extinct 17th-century marbleizing technique.

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It took me four years of college and about a thousand papers, pop quizzes, multiple choice tests, mid-term exams, finals, a handful of art projects and one thesis to determine exactly what I should have majored in.

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