4,101 Matchsafes

An experiment in programming print to generate an absurd museum catalog.

Using the Cooper Hewitt API, I pulled records for all matchsafes with images in the collection and produced a 4,390 page book purely devoted to the art: 4,101 pages of matchsafes accompanied by a 256 page index. Download the unofficial Cooper Hewitt matchsafe catalog as a 479Mb PDF. Please consider the environment before printing.

Read more about the project here.