World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Please note: The bookshop is closed until February 1, 2024.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
2000, English
Softcover, 500 pages, 21.5 x 15.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$260.00 - In stock -
A rare early issue of the iconic Purple magazine, edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, this wonderful early edition features: Susan Cianciolo, Raf Simons, Jack Goldstein, Terry Richardson, Anders Edstrom, Chloe Sevigny, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Margiela, Rosemarie Trockel, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, General Idea, Mark Borthwick, Lewis Baltz, Lars Bang Larsen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Comme des Garçons, Michelle Grabner, Bless, Yohji Yamamoto, Dike Blair, Bernhard Willhelm, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Holmqvist, David Grubbs, Glenn O'Brian, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bob Nickas, Sergio Guillen, Camille Vivier, Tan Lin, Olivier Zahm, Armin Linke, Amy Yao, Elein Fleiss, Henry Roy, Torbjorn Rodland, Chikashi Suzuki, Michael Smith, Lionel Bovier, Amy Sillman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Daniel Pflumm, Allen Rupperberg, Blake Rayne, Stephen Prina, Sture Johannesson, Franz Ackermann, Adrea Zittel, Jeremy Deller, Miu Miu, Dorothee Perret, Gaspard Yurkievich, Stanley Brouwn, Vija Celmins, Bas Jan Ader, Richard Prince, Tim Griffin, and so many more. One of the best issues!
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy. Copy from the library of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)! OMA was founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis. Sticker to spine and sticker to front cover (re-movable, but let on due to noteworthiness)
2001, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 27 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$240.00 - In stock -
A very rare copy of the eighth issue of Purple, edited by Olivier Zahm, art directed by Makoto Ohru, featuring Chiara Mastroianni on the cover. One of the best issues, featuring Mark Borthwick, Roe thridge, Richard Kern, Katja Rahlwes, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Chloë Sevigny, Henry Roy, Colin de Land, Bruce Benderson, Anders Edström, Jutta Koether, Kate Moss, Maison Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Gordon, Antek Walczak, Hermés, Masafumi Sanai, Dike Blair, Comme des Garçons, Balenciaga, Nakako Hayashi, Jeff Rian, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Bless, Experimental Jetset, Bob Nickas, Ann Demeuelemeester, Claude Closky, Kyoji Takahashi, Michael Smith, Matt Sweeney, John Kelsey, Helmut Lang, Bennett Simpson, Gareth James, Miu Miu, Vanina Sorrenti, Cedrick Eymenier, Andreas Larsson, Mark Kingwell, Bernard Joisten, Laetitia Benat, Anaïd Demir, Costume National, Michel Sumpf, Alex Antitch, Giasco Bertoli, Jeremy Blake, Ola Rindal, and many more....
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy.
2000, English
Softcover, 500 pages, 21.5 x 15.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$160.00 - Out of stock
Purple 6 Winter '00 '01 : fashion, prose, special fiction, interior
A rare early issue of the iconic Purple magazine, edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, this wonderful early edition features work by: Richard Prince, Susan Cianciolo, Bless, Cris Moor, Lutz, Maison Martin Margiela, Hermés, Giasco Bertoli, Junya Watanabe, Comme des Garçons, Lars Botten, Bernhard Willhelm, Hussein Chalayan, Camille Vivier, Cosmic Wonder, Fendi, Terry Richardson, Anders Edstrom, Balenciaga, Vanina Sorrenti, Helmut Lang, Banu Cennetoglu, Veronique Branquinho, Chikashi Suzuki, Marc Jacobs, Ann-Sofie Back, Lodge Kerrigan, Mark Borthwick, Olivier Zahm, Jeff Rian, Bernard Joisten, Bruce Benderson, Andy Stillpass, Bennett Simspon, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pete Taylor, Jason Simon, Pablo Leon De La Barra, Panu Aree, Tim Griffin, Dayton Taylor, Dike Blair, Gareth James, Michael Drake, Antek Walczak, Guillaume Nez, Tom Betterton, John Kelsey, Cheryl Donegan, Mark Fishman, Ole Scheeren, Sarah Gavlak, Alix Lambert, Tan Lin, Sharon Mesmer, Sharon Mesmer, Peter Josephs, Benjamin Weismann, Jordan Davis, Fred El Bekkay, Michael Danner, Giasco Bertoli, Andreas Larsson, James Gooding, Alex Antitch, Elein Fleiss, Henry Roy, Rami Maymon, Torbjorn Rodland, Marcello Simeoni, Delphine Roque, Michael Danner, Stefan Ruiz, and many many more. Art directed by Christophe Brunnquell.
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine and Purple. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple.
Very Good copy.
1999, English / Japanese
Softcover, unpaginated, 11.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Little More / Tokyo
$150.00 - Out of stock
Wonderful pocket journal photo book published in 1999 by Tokyo's Little More books, documenting the 1998 and 1999 Paris fashion weeks through the travels and relationships of Nakako Hayashi, artist and editor of the great Here and There journal and fashion and art contributor to Purple, Hanatsubaki, Ryu-ko-tsu-shin, and more. Naturally, this publication has all the feeling of Here and There and early issues of Purple, and includes many of the key contributors to those magazines — all friends of Hayashi's, plus documentation of the long lost galleries and hot-spots of Paris, London, and Japan — Colette, Purple Institute, The Pineal Eye, The Deep Gallery, Purple Cafe... An excellent time-capsule of 1990's anti-fashion world at its peak. Includes a sticker sheet of Susan Cianciolo's Run7 collection!
Contributions and documentation of work by Susan Cianciolo, Mark Borthwick, BLESS, Elein Fleiss, Comme des Garçons, Maison Martin Margiela, A.F. Vandevorst, Veronique Branquinho, Jerome Dreyfuss, Gaspard Yurkievich, Junya Watanabe, Martine Sitbon, Colette, Purple, Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Olivier Theyskens, Andre Walker, Jeremy Scott, Niels Klavers, Dick Page, and more.
Texts in English and Japanese.
Very Good copy.
2017, English
Softcover, 672 pages, 20 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Many of Them / Spain
$80.00 - Out of stock
Sealed copy, out-of-print, limited to 1000 copies.
Fashion : Cosmic Wonder, Balenciaga, Loewe, Dries Van Noten, Chanel, Comme Des Garçons, Sacai, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe, Paco, Rabanne, Off-White, Dior Homme, Olivier Theyskens, Jacquemus, Lutz Huelle, Vejas, Simone Rocha, Louis Vuitton, Courrèges, Undercover, Celine, Miu Miu, Hermès, Bernhard Willhelm, Sies Marjan, Prada, Raf Simons, John Alexander, Skelton, Olympia Le-Tan, Wendy & Jim, Koché, JW Anderson, Ligia Dias, Lemaire, Cherevichkiotvichki, Eatable Of Many Orders, Daniela Gregis, Hood By Air, Molly Goddard, Bless.
Cinema : Oliver Laxe, Paz Encina, Paul Verhoeven, Amat Escalante, Andres Di Tella, Milagros Mumenthaler, Joao Pedro Rodriges Pablo Larrain Terence Davies, Walter Salles, Jonas Trueba, Bertrand Tavernier.
Many of Them is a limited edition publication. Its aim is to offer a space for discussion in which creators can share their perspective about their own field, their languages and the problems they face in their everyday practices. It originally started as a diary in 2008 and it keeps evolving into different formats.
2018, English
Softcover, 552 pages, 19.6 × 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Many of Them / Spain
$80.00 - Out of stock
"This issue is the result of daily photo shoots on the same street of Paris from 15 May 2018 to 15 July 2018, with selected pieces from: LOEWE, BALENCIAGA, CHANEL, COMME DES GARÇONS, MIU MIU, SACAI, ISSEY MIYAKE, YOHJI YAMAMOTO, PACO RABANNE, BYREDO, GUCCI, SIMONEROCHA, OLIVIER THEYSKENS, JACQUEMUS, REALITY STUDIO, LOUIS VUITTON, CÉLINE , HERMÈS, DIOR HOMME, PRADA, RAF SIMONS, UNDERCOVER, OFF-WHITE, LEMAIRE, BLESS, JUNYA WATANABE, ÉTUDES, LAUREN MANOOGIAN, SIES MARJAN, GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY, BEIRA, GEOFFREY B. SMALL; and conversations with YOSHIYUKI MIYAMAE, WIM WENDERS, BEN GORHAM, DRIES VAN NOTEN, JAMES FRANCO, RUBEN ÖSTLUND, ECKHAUS LATTA, MARK JENKINS, TODD HAYNES AND ANDRE WALKER. Thanks to all the contributors for making it possible to accomplish this love letter to Paris and its citizens."
As New, sealed.
1999, English
Softcover, 494 pages, 15.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$150.00 - Out of stock
PURPLE magazine ("Fashion, Prose, Special, Fiction, Interior") Number 4, Winter 1999-2000.
A rare copy of this early edition of Purple, edited by Elein Fleiss, this wonderful early issue that features work by: Mark Borthwick, Juergen Teller, Jutta Koether, Jack Pierson, Tobjorn Rodland, A.F. Vandervorst, Ann-Sofie Back, Takashi Homma, Anders Edstrom, Balenciaga, Hussein Chalayan, Susan Cianciolo, Comme des Garcons, Fabrics Interseason, Martin Margiela, Kim Gordon, Doug Aitken, Junya Watanabe, Hermés, Bernard Willhelm, Helmut Lang, Leah Singer, Louis Vuitton, Lewis Baltz, Liz Bougatsos, Bless, Experimental Jetset, Antek Walzcak, Harmony Korine, Mark Gonzales, Terry Richardson, Giasco Bertoli, and many many more....
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion.
2005, English
Softcover, 44 pages, offset, 145 x 200 mm
Published by
Slave / Melbourne
$10.00 $5.00 - In stock -
To coincide with BLESS visiting Melbourne in 2005, Slave and Bless published BLESS No 25 The Dater 05 with the design assistance of Manuel Raeder. This organizer of months and Bless productions comes together with new contributions to Slave from Bianca Hester, Lyndal Walker, Angelo Flaccavento, Michelle Ussher and Jeremy The, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Scott Mitchell, Chris Kraus, Scott Redford, A Constructed World, Diane Pernet, and Natural Selection.
Edited by Manuel Raeder.
2016, English
Softcover, 730 pages, 15 x 22 cm
Published by
Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and the Geneva School of Art and Design / Genève
Sternberg Press / Berlin
$60.00 - Out of stock
Markus Miessen, Yann Chateigné (Eds.)
Contributions by Stuart Bailey, Bassam El Baroni, Thomas Bayrle, Jeremy Beaudry, Beatrice von Bismarck, Beatriz Colomina, Céline Condorelli, Mathieu Copeland, Dexter Sinister, Joseph Grima, Nav Haq, Sandi Hilal, Nikolaus Hirsch, Thomas Jefferson, Christoph Keller, Alexander Kluge, Joachim Koester, Armin Linke, Julia Moritz, Rabih Mroué, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Seth Price, Walid Raad, Alice Rawsthorn, Patricia Reed, David Reinfurt, Claire de Ribaupierre, Eyal Weizman, et al.
What are the processes that enable archives to become productive? Conventional archives tend to be defined through the content-specific accumulation of material, which conforms to an existing order or narrative. They rarely transform their structure. In contrast to this model of archival practice and preservation, the conflictual archive has an open framework in which it actively transforms itself, allowing for the creation of new and surprising relationships. Illustrating how spaces of knowledge can be devised, developed, and designed, this archive reveals itself as a space in which documents and testimonies open up a stage for productive dispute and struggle.
Exploring nontraditional archives, such as those of Harald Szeemann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sitterwerk, and the publishing house Merve, The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict offers new perspectives on archival practice, interrogating whether archives need spatial permanence, and, if so, which design framework should be applied for the archive to take on more than a singular form of existence. The research project is a collaboration between the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève).
Copublished with Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève)
Design by Jonas Fechner and Lisa Naujack
2008, English
Softcover, 110 pages, 21 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
Association Belle Haleine / Paris
$50.00 - Out of stock
THE PURPLE JOURNAL ("Stories, Essays, Reports, Portraits, Chronicles, Photographs") Number 12, Fall-Winter 2007-2008.
A scarce copy of this early edition of The Purple Journal, featuring Daidō Moriyama, Bless, Henry Roy, Antek Walczak, Jean-Michel Wicker, Nakako Hayashi, Elein Fleiss, Manon de Boer, Laetitia Benat, Jason Orton, Cosmic Wonder, Yannick Haenel, Sonia Rykiel, Nick Tosches, Frederico Nicolao, Amit Berlowitz, Muriel Vega, Maison Martin Margiela, Jil Sander, Marc Giannesini, Daniel Franco, Raphael Nadjari, Yuriika Suzuki, Stephen Sprott, Raf Simons, Chikashi Suzuki, Arnold Barkus, Alex Antitch, Katarina Radovic, Beth Yahp, and much more.
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion.
Condition: Very Good (light wear, otherwise clean and tightly
2007, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 17 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Textfield / Los Angeles
$25.00 $15.00 - Out of stock
Fifth issue of Los Angeles-based conceptual design and arts magazine Textfield, edited and published in Los Angeles by designer Jonathan Maghen. This issue features an interview with Hyphen Press’s Robin Kinross by Stuart Bailey, an interview with Cosmic Wonder’s Yukinori Maeda by Nakako Hayashi, "As-Found" by Thomas Eberwein and Marc Kremers, Portraiture by Angelo Plessas, Wallscapes by BLESS, Binna Choi on the work of designer Manuel Raeder, interview with Rafaël Rozendaal with Jim Jarmusch, Swift Typography, AA Compendium by Andreas Angelidakis, poems supposedly written by the former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, fashion shoots, and much more.
Very Good copy, some light cover/edge wear/bumps.
2006, English / Japanese
Softcover, 40 Pages 21 x 29.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Here and There / Japan
Nieves / Zurich
$45.00 - Out of stock
Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anne Daems, Susan Cianciolo, Els Beusen, Elein Fleiss, Yoshimi, Yayako Uchida, Takako Minekawa, Yurie Nagashima, Bless, Kazunari Hattori
Here and There comes back, after two years of absence from the independent magazine scene, with Unexpected Travelling Issue, a sixth issue which counts already familiar but also new illustrious collaborations.
In Nakako’s own words, the vision behind the Unexpected Travelling Issue was: "One day, someone told me her ideal garden is what looks like no one is taking care of, and have so many different pretty flowers in springtime. The other day my friend told me she has an ideal image of bringing up kids even though in reality she has to deal with daily life living in crowded Tokyo. I am into those stories, and new issue must be something related to this 'ideal' world. in each people's minds. Maybe you can talk about ideal books making"
With the sixth issue, Here and There consolidates its long-standing partnership with Nieves, which from now on will be publishing and distributing the magazine internationally.
As Elein Fleiss once said, Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako's name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.
Nakako Hayashi was born in 1966. She became a freelance editor from 2001, after working for Hanatsubaki, the culture magazine published by Shiseido. She has been writing fashion and art articles for Ryu-ko-tsu-shin and other magazines. Her books include Baby Generation and Paris Collection Individuals (both by Little More)
Art Director Kazunari Hattori.
2003, English
Softcover, 27 × 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$80.00 - Out of stock
PURPLE Number 15, Spring-Summer 2003.
A rare early issue of the iconic Purple magazine, edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, this wonderful early edition features work by: Jeff Rain, Bruce Benderson, Nick Tosches, Dike Blair, Jens Hoffman, Miltos Manetas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Pierre Leguillon, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Desiree Heiss amd Ines Kaag, Kelley Walker, Robert Wright, Yukinori Maeda, Oscar van den Boogbaard, Rita Ackermann, Laetitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Giasco Bertoli, Cécile Bortoletti, Lizzie Bougatsos, Anders Edström, Richard Kern, Justine Kurtland, Emmanuelle Mafille, Terry Richardson, Henry Roy, Masafumi Sanai, Chikashi Suzuki, Bless, and many many more.
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine and Purple. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple.
2010, French
Softcover, 296 pages, 19.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$80.00 - Out of stock
Rare copy of the first and only issue of "Les Cahiers Purple".
As the extension of Purple Journal, and the diversion away from Purple Fashion, "Les Cahiers Purple" has the subtlety, sophistication and poetry expected from editor-in-chief Elein Fleiss. Through a diary-like feel, the publication captured the world through the lenses and words of a diverse array of collaborators and contributors from the worlds of fashion, photography, art, literature, poetry, design and much more.
Contributors included: Judith Affolter, Leonor Antunes, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Arnold Barkus, Laetitia Benat, Amit Berlowitz, Guillaume Besnier, Dike Blair, BLESS, Marcel Cohen, Sonia Collins, Cosmic Wonder Light Source, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Tacida Dean, Gérard Duguet-Grasser, Pablo Durán, Anders Edström, Laura Erber, Fabrics Interseason, Oscar Faria, Mark Fishman, Elein Fleiss, Anne Frémy, Danièle Gibrat, Aki Goto, Pablo Guerra, Yannick Haenel, Nakako Hayashi, Michiko Hayashi, Takashi Homma, Kyotaro, Béatrice Leca, Yukari Miyagi, Valérie Mréjen, Raphaël Nadjari, Federico Nicolao, Paulo Nozolino, Gaëlle Obiégly, Jeff Rian, Daniel Riera, Dieter Roelstraete, Tatiana Roque, Henry Roy, Stephen Sprott, Yuriika Suzuki, Sergio Taborda, Itai Tamir, Guillermo Ueno, Antek Walzcak, Szymon Zaleski, Zucca, and more.
contents:
Cahier 01 Marcel Cohen, 10 textes
Cahier 02 Vivre au Japon
Cahier 03 France
Cahier 04 Esprits
Cahier 05 Comunal Argea
Cahier 06 Lisboa
Cahier 07 Caractères
Cahier 08 Vêtements d'hiver
Cahier 09 New York Now and Then
Cahier 10 Buenos Aires, les personnes préférées de Guillermo Ueno
Cahier 11 Idoles
Cahier 12 Aventures
Cahier 13 Szymon Zaleski, La tragédie sémite
Cahier 14 Rio de Janeiro
Cahier 15 Créatures
2016, English
Softcover, 62 pages, 18 x 26.5 cm
Edition of 150,
Published by
Mode and Mode / Melbourne
$6.00 - Out of stock
Mode and Mode 2 'a publication in a publication' features the Berlin/Paris-based fashion design practice of BLESS, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss, and their ongoing ‘lookbook collaborations’ project. Also featuring image contributions from Harriet Barrile, Ricarda Bigolin, Michael Bojkowski, Felix Burrichter, Tim Coster, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graf, Brad Haylock, Jared Leon and Johanna Heldebro, Thalea Michos-Vellis, Sophie Mörner, Alisa Närvänen, Virginia Overell, Manuel Raedar, Jerome Rigaud, Jason Schlabach and Annie Wu.
Mode and Mode is a periodical that addresses printed matter in fashion practice. Each issue explores experimental publishing in fashion with an interview around a print-based project — one that has critical effects to fashion as a discourse. In doing so, we reflect on the role of print and its potency to disrupt, or propel, fashion narratives.
2006, English
Softcover, 255 pages (196 colour and 300 b/w ill.), 18.5 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Sternberg Press / Berlin
$350.00 - Out of stock
BLESS.
Celebrating Ten Years of Themelessness: N° 00 – N° 29
Desiree Heiss, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder (Eds.)
Texts by Thimo te Duits, Elein Fleiss, Nakako Hayashi, Stéphanie Moisdon, Ulf Poschardt, Pro qm, Adriano Sack, Barbara Steiner, Olivier Zahm
Interviews by Manuel Raeder with Nobuyoshi Tamura Shihan and by Jan Winkelmann with Bless
The now very sought-after, scarce, encyclopedic, ten-year survey monograph of Berlin's famed BLESS. Sternberg Press have published two "catalogue raisonné" volumes documenting the oeuvre of Bless, this being the first, long out-of-print volume, designed by Manuel Raeder and published in 2006, documenting everything from their beginnings in the late 1990's up until 2006.
Bless came to fame in the winter of ‘97/‘98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore Bless wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu. Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, Bless slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising. Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way. Objects such as customizable footwear, disposable T-shirts, chair covers, table mobiles, cable jewellery, and wallpapers, but also an “extended hotel service” range among the many products that have resulted from their manipulations of a garment or piece of furniture.
For author Barbara Steiner, “by addressing the fields of both fashion and art, including the overlapping zones, and once again confounding any attempt at classification, Bless reveals the contradictions and conflicts that underlie economic and artistic interests, and above all their reciprocal relationship. Ambiguity, contingency and instability become the constituents of a practice that is based on multiple focal points as a means of probing possibilities of external versus self-determination, commercial success versus critical reflection and incorporation versus resistance.”
Designed by Manuel Raeder, this fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless’ activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.
Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2003), Goethe-Institut, Tokyo (2005), and most recently at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Their collaborations with other brands range from Adidas to Levi’s, Nike, Mikli and Droog over to the jewellery designer Bucherer.
Perfect, As New copy.
2006, English
Softcover, 255 pages (196 colour and 300 b/w ill.), 18.5 x 25 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Sternberg Press / Berlin
$200.00 - Out of stock
BLESS.
Celebrating Ten Years of Themelessness: N° 00 – N° 29
Desiree Heiss, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder (Eds.)
Texts by Thimo te Duits, Elein Fleiss, Nakako Hayashi, Stéphanie Moisdon, Ulf Poschardt, Pro qm, Adriano Sack, Barbara Steiner, Olivier Zahm
Interviews by Manuel Raeder with Nobuyoshi Tamura Shihan and by Jan Winkelmann with Bless
The now very sought-after, scarce, encyclopedic, ten-year survey monograph of Berlin's famed BLESS. Sternberg Press have published two "catalogue raisonné" volumes documenting the oeuvre of Bless, this being the first, long out-of-print volume, designed by Manuel Raeder and published in 2006, documenting everything from their beginnings in the late 1990's up until 2006.
Bless came to fame in the winter of ‘97/‘98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore Bless wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu. Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, Bless slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising. Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way. Objects such as customizable footwear, disposable T-shirts, chair covers, table mobiles, cable jewellery, and wallpapers, but also an “extended hotel service” range among the many products that have resulted from their manipulations of a garment or piece of furniture.
For author Barbara Steiner, “by addressing the fields of both fashion and art, including the overlapping zones, and once again confounding any attempt at classification, Bless reveals the contradictions and conflicts that underlie economic and artistic interests, and above all their reciprocal relationship. Ambiguity, contingency and instability become the constituents of a practice that is based on multiple focal points as a means of probing possibilities of external versus self-determination, commercial success versus critical reflection and incorporation versus resistance.”
Designed by Manuel Raeder, this fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless’ activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.
Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2003), Goethe-Institut, Tokyo (2005), and most recently at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Their collaborations with other brands range from Adidas to Levi’s, Nike, Mikli and Droog over to the jewellery designer Bucherer.
Good copy with only spine wear/cracking from reading, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
2017, English
Softcover (over-sized), 144 pages, 25 x 37 cm
Published by
Encens / Paris
$58.00 $15.00 - Out of stock
encens is a fashion magazine from France, presenting a very selective number of designers, edited by Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter.
encens 38 "A Matter of Fact" (2017) features Bless, Helmut Lang, Nehera, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Bill Gibb, Maryse Gaspard, Joan Juliet Buck, Marie Piovesan, Claudia Huidobro, Camille Bidault Waddington, Loc Boyle, Ellen von Unwerth, Comme des Garçons, Peter Lindbergh, Barbara Bloom, Francesco Brigida, Serge Lutens, Yohji Yamamoto, Juun J, Lutz Huelle, Pierre Cardin, Y/Project, Celine, Lemaire, Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Ralph Lauren, Lucio Vanotti, Hed Mayner, Dusan, Marithe & Françoise Girbaud, Vetements, Hermes, Dries Van Noten, Vetements x Brioni, Veronique Leroy, Issey Miyake Plantation, Uma Wang, Ann Demeulemeester, Heider Ackermann, Azzadine Alaia, Luc Delahaye, Paul Nougé, Pavel Büchler, Nina Chua, Xanti Schawinsky, and many more.
Cover by Francesco Brigida.
2016, English
Softcover (over-sized), 136 pages, 25 x 37 cm
$58.00 $15.00 - Out of stock
encens is a fashion magazine from France, presenting a very selective number of designers, edited by Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter.
encens 36 "Mindscape" (Spring/Summer 2016) features Susan Sontag, Serge Lutens, Isabelle Weingarten, Cartier, Comme des Garçons, Annie Leibovitz, Nehera, Giorgio Armani, Hed Mayner, Angelo Flaccavento, James Benning, Carol Bove, Uma Wang, Veronique Branquinho, Issey Miyake, Carlo Scarpa, Lene Berg, Lutz Huelle, Givenchy, Dries Van Noten, Sonia Rykiel, Azzadine Alaia, Yohji Yamamoto, Willie Christie, Axl Jensen, Chanel, Celine, Lemaire, Veronique Leroy, Dior Homme, Maison Martin Margiela, Vivienne Westwood, Linda Loppa, Bless, Juun J., Christopher Williams, Friedrich Kiesler, Pierre Cardin, Hermes, and many more.
2016, English / French
Softcover, 168 pages, 240 x 175 mm
Published by
May Revue / Paris
$29.00 $10.00 - Out of stock
MAY #15
"FASHION"
contents include:
Preface — MAY
Crisis Fashion — DANIEL HORN
DIS and That — MIKAEL BRKIC & DIS
Vetements – Fall / Winter 2016. Panel Discussion — LOU STOPPARD & SAHIL BABBAR, AUDE FELLAY, AYA NOEL, PRIYESH PATEL, VILDE SORUM
The Modern Naked King — TAQUE HIRAKAWA
Interview with Women’s History Museum — ADA O’HIGGINS
Maison Artists Space. Interview with Stefan Kalmár — MAY
Roundtable — BLESS & ANJA ARONOWSKY CRONBERG, HEINZ PETER KNES
THE STREET — TOBIAS KASPAR & TOBI MAIER
Jesus as Readymade. Interview with Kaspar Müller — PETER FISCHLI
REVIEWS
La mode retrouvée. On the Wardrobe of the Countess Greffulhe at Palais Galliera, Paris — HANNAH ADKINS
Post-Hummannerism. On “Inhuman” at Fridericianum Museum, Kassel — JAKOB SCHILLINGER
Magma — ERIC BELL
Finely Crafted Stool. On Mathieu Malouf at Jenny’s, Los Angeles — GEORGE EGERTON-WABURTON
Wolfpack. On the film “The Wolfpack” by Crystal Moselle — JULIA MORITZ
About MAY Revue:
Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisement typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.
2016, English
Softcover (2 books), 560 pages, 215 x 155 cm
ed. of 1000,
Published by
Many of Them
$62.00 - Out of stock
MANY OF THEM – VOL. IV
A LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES
Cosmic Wonder, Louis Vuitton, Issey Miyake, Hermès, Saint Laurent, Loewe, Yohji Yamamoto, Irène Silvagni, Limi Feu, Undercover, Dries Van Noten, Lemaire, Chanel, Bernhard Willhelm, Junya Watanabe, Comme Des Garçons, Maurizio Amadei, Alaïa, Paz De La Huerta, Daniela Gregis, Sybilla, Geoffrey B. Small, Eatable Of Many Orders, Sacai, Ply,Ragne Kikas, Steve Mono, Jan-Jan Van Essche, Susan Cianciolo, Koché, Bless, Oriole Cullen, Kaat Debo, Akiko Fukai, Harold Koda, Olivier Saillard, Valerie Steele, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-Ke, Amat Escalante, Isaki Lacuesta, Lisandro Alonso, Nathalia Acevedo, Lav Diaz, Moira Lang, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mia Hansen-Løve, Jonas Mekas, Todd Haynes.
Many of Them is a limited edition publication. Its aim is to offer a space for discussion in which creators can share their perspective about their own field, their languages and the problems they face in their everyday practices. It originally started as a diary in 2008 and it keeps evolving into different formats.
2015, English
Softcover (w. free copy of "Boulevard"), 80 pages, 19 x 27.5 cm
Published by
Centre for Style / Melbourne
$10.00 - Out of stock
Centre for Style Rag: Silly Canvas
2nd Printing.
Re-edited, re-printed, re-designed, re-bound, and comes with a free copy of "Boulevard" by Centre for Style at Gertrude Contemporary (softcover, 34 pages, 14 x 20 cm) from World Food Books!
Texts by:
Harry Burke, Helen Hughes, Lisa Radford, Olivia Barrett, Sally Gray, Tim Gentles
Artist pages by:
Anna-Sophie Berger, H.B. Peace, Dan Arps, Dena Yago, Elisa van Joolen, Lou Hubbard
The Prologue Edition doubles as the catalogue of Silly Canvas, with images from the exhibition curated by Centre for Style at Utopian Slumps in December 2014
Participants include:
A Constructed World, Amalia Ulman, Anna-Sophie Berger, Bless, Body by Body, D&K, ffiXXed, H.B. Peace , Ida Ekblad and Eirik Sæther, Lucina Lane, Marlie Mul, Mikala Dwyer, Susan Cianciolo, Trevor Shimizu
Designed and printed by Clare Wohlnick and Maff.
"Boulevard" by Centre for Style at Gertrude Contemporary features the work of Ander Rennick, Brooke Ally, Bum Creek, Chloe Maratta, Christopher LG Hill, Claire Lambe, D&K, Flannery Silva, Guy Benfield, H.B. Peace, Hamish Macdonald, Jenny Watson, Jessie Kiely, Joshua Petherick, K8 Hardy, Kate Meakin, Le Service Public, Laura Fanning, Lewis Fidock, Liam Osborne, Matthew Linde, Marie Karlberg, Michael Smith, Moses Gauntlett Cheng, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Odwalla 88, Quintessa Matranga, Rafael Delacruz, Rare Candy, Richard Malone, Sylvie Zijlmans & Hewald Jongenelis, Tobias Madison, Vejas, Zoe Latta.
2015, English
Softcover (w. insert), 80 pages, 15 x 27 cm
Published by
Centre for Style / Melbourne
$10.00 - Out of stock
Centre for Style Rag: Silly Canvas Prologue Edition
Texts by:
Harry Burke, Helen Hughes, Lisa Radford, Olivia Barrett, Sally Gray, Tim Gentles
Artist pages by:
Anna-Sophie Berger, H.B. Peace, Dan Arps, Dena Yago, Elisa van Joolen, Lou Hubbard
The Prologue Edition doubles as the catalogue of Silly Canvas, with images from the exhibition curated by Centre for Style at Utopian Slumps in December 2014
Participants include:
A Constructed World, Amalia Ulman, Anna-Sophie Berger, Bless, Body by Body, D&K, ffiXXed, H.B. Peace , Ida Ekblad and Eirik Sæther, Lucina Lane, Marlie Mul, Mikala Dwyer, Susan Cianciolo, Trevor Shimizu
Designed and printed by Clare Wohlnick
2014, English / French
Softcover (over-sized), 140 pages, 25 x 37 cm
Published by
Encens / Paris
$50.00 - Out of stock
encens is a fashion magazine from France, presenting a very selective number of designers, edited by Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter.
encens 32 (Bodyworks) features Michele Lamy, Celine, Hed Mayner, Balmain, Serge Lutens, Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Linda Bryne, Armani Prive, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, Maison Martin Margiela, Givenchy, Dusun, Corbier Agostini, Diana-Gartner Dietrich, Sojourner Morrell, Jean Muir, Comme des Garcons, Karl Lagerfeld, Hermes, Kris Van Assche, Dior Homme, Maison Auclert, Francesco Brigida, Samuel Drira, Allude, Yohji Yamamoto, Bless, Christian Dior, Sonia Rykiel, Rene, Christophe Lemaire, Jean-Charles De Castelbajac, Axl Jensen, Rene Storck, Amaya Arzuaga, Pleats Please, plus many more.