Who? It is widely agreed that Italian artist and designer Luigi Serafini is responsible for the strangest book in the world, the beguiling and bewildering Codex Seraphinianus. The Codex is not easy to explain. Published in 1981, it purports to be an encyclopedia from another world, written in a constructed language. It features vivid illustrations of surreal creatures, fantastical plants, impossible machines, mind-bending fashion and…
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