Surely These Are The Finest Face Masks In All Of Philadelphia

When all of this is over, one of the first places we’d really like to visit is the The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the “private” library on Washington Square that anyone can visit and is such a fine example of the “Third Place” that we chose it to illustrate the very concept of third places a few years back. Enough words cannot be spilled on the calming elegance of this place, and how slept-on it is. Like most other non-essential places, the Athenaeum is closed right now, but also like everyone else, they are far from dormant. Making use of their vast holdings of artwork, architectural renderings and other visual ephemera from the last three centuries, the Athenaeum is now selecting works and having them printed on these inexpensively-priced face masks. Above, for instance, you see “A plan of the city of Philadelphia and environs, 1808-1811” by John Hills, rendered in face mask form. Whether your knowledge of city planning in the Gilded Age is the particular flex you’d like to make on your very face is your own personal choice, but there are many other beautiful masks here as well, all steeped in history, and all worthy of a jogger’s face.