Guardian Australia · Art and design

‘The beauty of the useless’: Spain’s super-thin restaurant napkins are throwaway art treasures

· By Abbas Asaria
Story summary

Forever flimsy and ineffective at cleaning greasy fingers, the servilletas of the Iberian peninsula resist the relentless ‘optimisation’ of our age. A new photo book recognises them as cultural treasures in miniature

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