Champignon Colour Plate - Larousse du XXème siècle Phone Case

Finishes

• Gloss for a lustrous statement
• Matte for velvety refinement

Reasons to Love Them

• Dual layer case offers extra protection for the accident prone — durable shatterproof outer layer, tight silicone inner layer for shock absorption
• HP print quality and finish
• Open access to ports/buttons
• Raised rim guards screen/camera
• Snaps on/off with ease
• Sublimated printing means the artwork on your case won't fade, crack or peel
• Certified non-toxic by REACH, RoHS and TÜV Rheinland

Production

• Printed locally in USA, UK, EU & AUS
• Made-to-order in 2-3 days on average

6 Month Warranty

Your new treasure comes with a 6 month warranty, protecting against any defects and faults that can be traced to its production. Meaning if your treasure develops a fault or defect due to its components or construction, you’ll get a replacement sent out free of charge — no surprise extras, no runaround.

Pierre Larousse's champignon plate, engraved for his Grand Dictionnaire Universel, scatters dozens of numbered fungal specimens across a cream background the way a nineteenth-century naturalist might pin moths beneath glass.

Number eleven crouches low in rust-red clusters at grass level; number twenty-eight lifts into a slate-gray parasol wide enough to shade its neighbors, and number sixty-seven sits apart as a pale sphere with nothing but empty paper around it. Mycology in this era leaned on exactly this kind of comparative grid, part of a nineteenth-century push to make natural knowledge visually classifiable at a glance.

Lithographic linework stays fine and unshaded here, letting watercolor washes carry the identification work photography would later inherit. Bulbous stipes swell beneath specimen eighteen, the same volva structure still used to key out Amanita species today. Reading the plate left to right feels less like admiring art than learning, specimen by specimen, to separate one gilled cap from the next on sight.