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.
1991, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Terrazzo / Milan
$130.00 - Out of stock
TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 6
Spring/ Summer 1991
240 pages of photographic reportages on the world largest metropolises
LE CORBUSIER
TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on the nature of metropolises
HUMANISM VERSUS ENVIRONMENTALISM
by Andrea Branzi
MOSCOW
by Helmut Newton
PLANS (No. 5)
The Russian Suprematists
1992, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Terrazzo / Milan
$130.00 - Out of stock
TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 7
Spring 1992
ARATA ISOZAKI
Architecture with or without irony by Arata Isozaki
photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto
SITE
Green architecture by James Wines
TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on kitchens
photographs Ettore Sottsass
PLANS (no. 6)
African Compounds and Villages
1992, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Terrazzo / Milan
$130.00 - Out of stock
TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 8
Fall 1992
EMPTINESS
by Aldo Gargani
KISHIN SHINOYAMA
Tokyo
STONES
photographs by Christina Bischofberger
POMPEI, ERCOLANO, OPLONTIS
photographs by Santi Caleca
BEYOND WALLS
by Sergio Capelli and Patrizia Ranzo
TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on ruins
photographs by Ettore Sottsass
THE WAYSIDE ART OF INDIA
by Priya Moolcerjee
PLANS (No. 7)
XVIII Century - Visionary Architecture
1995, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Terrazzo / Milan
$130.00 - Out of stock
TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 10
Fall/Winter 1995
ALDO G. GARGANI
Aesthetics
ARATA ISOZAKI
Phenomenology of floors
MEDITERRANEAN PASTA
Barbara Radice
Six Recipes
photographs by Santi Caleca
TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on Fujian's Round Houses
VERY ANCIENT CHINA
universe, geometry, numbers, architecture
ANDREA BRANZI
Development and Reduction
LUOGHI
research by Milco Carboni
Plans (no. 9)
research by Beppe Caturegli and Giovannella Formica
2015, English / German
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$32.00 $15.00 - In stock -
ISSUE NO. 100
DECEMBER 2015
„THE CANON“
“Our 100th issue is dedicated to the question of the “canon.” We take up this theme with an interest in reflecting on the journal’s own role in the field of contemporary art — one that, when first initiated in 1990, was markedly counter-canonical, vigorously contesting certain methods of critique while supporting others. And yet, we pause here to acknowledge that after 25 years, we have also doubtlessly played a crucial part in shaping a particular discourse, even normativizing it to some degree. Could it even be said that TzK has established a canon in its own right? With this issue, we now take stock of what TzK’s relationship to the canon might be, and moreover, what the notion of canonicity in 2015 might now represent.”
ISSUE NO. 100 / DECEMBER 2015 “THE CANON”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
TOM HOLERT IN PRAISE OF PRESUMPTUOUSNESS: “KANON-POLITIK ” (1992) REVISITED
DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
MIKE KELLEY
SABETH BUCHMANN
MEDIAL (SELF-)MOVEMENT
ISABELLE GRAW
CANON AND CRITIQUE: AN INTERPLAY / Heimo Zobernig
JULIANE REBENTISCH
25 ARTISTS FROM 1990 TO 2015 / And 25 reasons why each belongs in the Texte zur Kunst canon
GERTRUD KOCH
POLYPHONY OR DISSONANCE / Are there artists lost in the canon?
KERSTIN STAKEMEIER
MORE MANNERISM / Ruth May and Jan Molzberger
GUNTER RESKI
EMBEDDED NUDES / Arno Rink
ALEXANDER GARCÍA DÜTTMANN
OLD WOMEN / Maria Lassnig’s “Du oder ich” (You or me), 2005
BEATE SÖNTGEN
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
NICK MAUSS
IAN WHITE
TESS EDMONSON
DIS
HANNA MAGAUER
POST-INTERNET: THE NEW ORDER
JOSEPHINE PRYDE
THE INDIVIDUAL
CAROLINE BUSTA
BAD CANON
SIMON DENNY
DISRUPT
KEN OKIISHI
CITIZENSHIP
VALENTINA LIERNUR
SELF-REFLECTIVE SUBJECTS
JUTTA KOETHER
FIGURE OF PAINT: ON THE INCONTROVERTIBLE!
ALICE CREISCHER AND ANDREAS SIEKMANN
TUCUMÁN ARDE
PAMELA M. LEE
GROUP MATERIAL
FELIX VOGEL
MARTIN BECK
SVEN BECKSTETTE
STURTEVANT
CLAIRE FONTAINE
TOWARD A CANONIC FREEDOM
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
FALLING APART, TOGETHER
ROBERT KULISEK AND DAVID LIESKE
HUSBANDS HAVE GOT TO DIE! / A conversation about Taryn Simon
BRIGITTE WEINGART
GREAT & SMALL
HELMUT DRAXLER
CANON OF EXISTENCE, ETHICS OF THE BREAK
ROTATION
ELECTROCONVULSIVE LIT / John Kelsey on Sylvère Lotringer’s “Mad Like Artaud”
REVIEWS
VERWISCHTE GRENZEN / Robert Müller über „Radikal Modern. Planen und Bauen im Berlin der 1960er-Jahre“ in der Berlinischen Galerie
AGING INTO NEW WORLDS: DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT / Bettina Funcke surveys five fall 2015 shows in New York
ANGEWANDTER HISTOMAT / Ariane Müller über „to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer. Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990“ im Mumok, Wien
ENIGMA IN THE MIRROR / Luis Felipe Fabre on “In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni” at Museo Jumex, Mexico City
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD / Nuit Banai on R. H. Quaytman at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
IST KUNST EIN SEXUALPROBLEM? / Eva Birkenstock über Lea Lublin im Lenbachhaus, München
HERE'S NOT HERE / Damon Sfetsios and Elise Duryee-Browner on Stephan Dillemuth at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
WEAK LOCAL LINEAMENTS / Gareth James on Sam Lewitt at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
OBITUARIES
PETER SCHEIFFELE (1971–2015)
by Ilka Becker
CHANTAL AKERMAN (1950–2015)
by Tim Griffin
EDITION
JOHN BALDESSARI
NHU DUONG
PETER FISCHLI/DAVID WEISS
WADE GUYTON
RACHEL HARRISON
SARAH MORRIS
ALBERT OEHLEN
RICHARD PHILLIPS
SETH PRICE
GERHARD RICHTER
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
1987, English / Japanese / French
Softcover (die-cut in printed plastic slipcase), 320 pages, 365 x 25.4 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Esprit De Corp / San Francisco
$220.00 - Out of stock
Incredibly rare and iconic, award-winning book published by Esprit De Corp in 1987, designed by Japanese designer and ESPRIT art director Tamotsu Yagi and Roberto Carra (Fiorucci), with photographer Oliviero Toscani (Benetton, Fiorucci, Colors).
Housed in it's original printed plastic sleeve, this first and only die-cut cover edition showcases all aspects of the design work of the pioneering Californian fashion company, ESPRIT, from the years 1984-1986. Through it's wonderful, quintessentially Californian 1980's post-modern design, this book profiles ESPRIT's product packaging, clothing and home-ware design, pop accessories, catalogue campaigns, advertisements, various identity and event collateral (party announcements, posters, flyers, business cards), apparel print graphics, and retail interior design by Ettore Sottsass and Sottsass Associates.
A one-of-a-kind, visually dazzling book and a wonderful, rare piece of commercial design history that led ESPRIT and Tamotsu Yagi to win the AIGA design leadership award in 1986.
English, Japanese and French text.
First edition, 1987.
In 1968, American environmentalist, adventure film-maker, conservationist and founder of The North Face outdoor clothing company, Douglas Tompkins, his wife Susie, and her friend Jane Tise began selling girls' dresses out of the back of a VW bus; in 1971, they incorporated the booming business under the name "Plain Jane" which later became ESPRIT, one of the hottest and most successful clothing companies of the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's.
From the early days running out of the Tompkins’ apartment in San Francisco, Douglas Tompkins titled himself "image director", overseeing all aspects of the company's image, from store design to catalog layout, while his wife served as design director. In 1984 the role of art director was taken up by Japanese designer Tamotsu Yagi. All facets of design were of primary importance to ESPRIT. From the iconic logo design by John Casado (who aslo designed the first Apple Macintosh Computer logo and album covers for the Doobie Brothers) to the ESPRIT store and office interiors by Ettore Sottsass (of Memphis Design Group and Sottsass Associates) to the fashion campaign photography of Oliviero Toscani (also well-known for his controversial campaigns for Benetton, work with Fiorucci, and co-founder of Colors magazine), ESPRIT was a total design vision of the 1980's.
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1972, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. frenchfolds), 52 pages, 26 x 36.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
GA 12
1972
Philip Johnson
Johnson House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949-
Edited and Photographed by Yukio Futagawa
Text by Bryan Robertson
One of the finest architecture series ever published, the world renowned GA (Global Architecture) series, presented by the highly esteemed publishing house that also published the GA Document, GA Houses, and GI (Global Interior) architectural publications.
Each over-sized photographic folio issue of GA highlights a renowned international architect and a selection of their architectural projects.
Absolutely stunning and vivid large-format (usually full-bleed) architectural photography of the selected building's interiors, exteriors and architectural details, along with texts (in English and Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured architectural project. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and beautifully printed over-sized publications make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Printed in Japan
1977, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. frenchfolds), 52 pages, 26 x 36.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
GA 43
1977
Marcel Breuer
Koerfer House (with Herbert Beckhard)
Moscia, Tessin, Switzerland 1963-67
Stillman House III (with Tician Papachristou)
Litchfield, Connecticut 1972-74
Gagarin House II (with Tician Papachristou)
Litchfield, Connecticut 1973-74
Edited and Photographed by Yukio Futagawa
Text by Stanley Abercrombie
One of the finest architecture series ever published, the world renowned GA (Global Architecture) series, presented by the highly esteemed publishing house that also published the GA Document, GA Houses, and GI (Global Interior) architectural publications.
Each over-sized photographic folio issue of GA highlights a renowned international architect and a selection of their architectural projects.
Absolutely stunning and vivid large-format (usually full-bleed) architectural photography of the selected building's interiors, exteriors and architectural details, along with texts (in English and Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured architectural project. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and beautifully printed over-sized publications make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
1979, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. frenchfolds), 50 pages, 26 x 36.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
GA 48
1979
Luis Barragán
House and Atelier for Luis Barragán, Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1947
Los Clubes, suburb of Mexico City, 1963-69
San Cristobal, suburb of Mexico City, 1967-68 (with the collaboration of arch. Andres Casillas)
Edited and Photographed by Yukio Futagawa
Text by Emilio Ambasz
One of the finest architecture series ever published, the world renowned GA (Global Architecture) series, presented by the highly esteemed publishing house that also published the GA Document, GA Houses, and GI (Global Interior) architectural publications.
Each over-sized photographic folio issue of GA highlights a renowned international architect and a selection of their architectural projects.
Absolutely stunning and vivid large-format (usually full-bleed) architectural photography of the selected building's interiors, exteriors and architectural details, along with texts (in English and Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured architectural project. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and beautifully printed over-sized publications make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Printed in Japan
2004, English
Softcover, 204 pages,
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
A Magazine / Antwerp
The Flanders Fashion Institute / Antwerp
$110.00 - Out of stock
Rare copy of the fourth instalment of the very collectable fashion periodical A Magazine, from Belgium. Published in 2006 and quickly vanishing to become one of the most sought after of the series, this volume was guest-curated by Jun Takahashi of the famous Japanese fashion label UNDERCOVER, and contains contributions on or by Rei Kawakubo + Comme Des Garcons, Terry Jones, Simon Marsden, Olivier Saillard, Hermes, Paolo Roversi, Mark Borthwick, Jan Svankmajer, Terry Richardson, and many, many more. An incredible, visually-packed volume that presents UNDERCOVER behind the scenes, including collections, scrapbooks, art projects, furniture, collages, samples, texts...
Designed by Paul Boudens.
"A Magazine is a biannual publication, exploring the creative sphere of a selected designer in each issue. We invite a guest curator - an international fashion designer, group or house - to develop innovative, personalized content that expresses their aesthetic and cultural values. Each issue celebrates this designer's ethos: their people, their passion, their stories, emotions, fascinations, spontaneity and authenticity".
2015, English
Hardcover, 358 pages, 30 x 24 cm
Published by
Self Service / Paris
$43.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
Self Service Fall / Winter 2015 Issue 43
Guest-edited by Melanie Ward.
Self Service Spring / Summer 2015 Issue 42, with Ezra Petronio and Wendy Rowe (Julia Van Os, Anja Rubik, Natalie Westling, Chloe Sevigny, Marjan Jonkman, Grace Hartzel, & Audrey Nurit), Harley Weir and Poppy Kain (Stella Lucia, Aneta Pajak, Erika Linder, Fernanda Ly, Sophia Ahrens, Damaris Goddrie, Grace Simmons, Aya Jones, Amalie Schmidt, Line Brems, Annika Krijt, Greta Varlese, Madison Stubbington, Roos Abels, Misha Hart, Jing Wen, Mia Gruenwald, & Amanda) and so much more.
Self Service magazine is a fashion and cultural biannual magazine. The magazine features the preeminent players in the fashion world, with innovative editorials photographed by the world’s best photographers and stylists.
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2001, Italian / English
Softcover, 112 pages (b/w ill.), 21 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Charta / Milan
$50.00 - Out of stock
"The publication of this volume coincides with the 25th anniversary of the death of Man Ray (Philadelphia 1890 - Paris 1976), one of the most interesting and eclectic avant-garde artists who made a name for himself as one of the leading figures of American dadaism. He chose photography as his principal means of expression, utilizing it as an instrument capable of disconcerting the gaze in simple ways. The portraits and fashion photographs collected in this book demonstrate Man Ray’s originality in revealing images of the body, and his constant search for beautiful forms that were also the intelligent expression of art’s capacity to stimulate thought. Never frivolous or banal, Man Ray’s photographs, like his objects, provoke delight, disturbance, disorientation, and most of all, reflection. As André Breton, Man Ray’s companion in the surrealist adventure, declared, “The portrait of a beloved should not only be an image to smile at, but an oracle to interrogate.”"
2015, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 22.5 x 15 cm
Published by
Koenig Books / London
Raven Row / London
$49.00 - Out of stock
As part of a generation of artists that emerged in the US in the early 1980s, Johnson is the 'artist's artist' par excellence, highly respected by fellow practitioners and students but little known outside of these circles. Edited by Bruce Hainley, this volume addresses the glaring bibliographic gap by offering an accessible overview of Johnson's work through analyses of some of his main preoccupations: queer politics and the urban landscape of LA and Hollywood mythologies. Featuring newly commissioned essays by Morgan Fisher, Bruce Hainley, Antony Hudek, Wayne Koestenbaum and Lisa Lapinski alongside other writings, this volume spans the artist's career from the early 80s to the present, heavily illustrated with text-based imagery and later cartoon-esque pieces. The glossy surfaces of Johnson's works are often combined with penetrating references to celebrity or gay culture, their look echoing the worlds of advertising and graphic design while evoking a variety of artistic traditions.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Larry Johnson: On Location at Raven Row, London, 11 June – 9 August.
2015, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 13.5 x 21 cm
Published by
Harvard University Graduate School of Design / Cambridge
Sternberg Press / Berlin
$20.00 - Out of stock
Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin
“Nothing in the architecture of Lacaton and Vassal is what it looks like at first glance.”
— Iñaki Ábalos, introducing Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, March 24, 2015
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The Paris-based architects opened their 2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto: study and create an inventory of the existing situation; densify without compressing individual space; promote user mobility, access, choice; and most importantly, never demolish. Freedom of Use reflects on these core values to present a fluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassal’s oeuvre, articulated through processes of accumulation, addition, and extension. The architects describe built and unbuilt work, from a house in Niger made of little more than branches; to the expansive Nantes School of Architecture; to a public square in Bordeaux where, after months of study, their design solution was: do nothing.
Lacaton and Vassal’s principle of doubling space is echoed in the book’s treatment of photography: black-and-white exterior shots that run alongside the text form a dialogue with corresponding full-color photographs of each interior, gathered at the end of the book.
The Incidents series is copublished with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Book series designed by Åbäke
2015, English / German
Softcover, 104 pages, 21 x 30 cm
Published by
Camera Austria / Vienna
$30.00 $15.00 - In stock -
Camera Austria #131
Guest editor/cover artist Annette Kelm.
features the work of:
Annette Kelm, Shannon Ebner, Morgan Fisher, Jan Groover, Hans Hansen, Louis Ducos du Hauron, Judith Hopf, Horst P. Horst, Barbara Kasten, David Lieske, Dirk von Lowtzow, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Henrik Olesen, Arthur Ou, Josephine Pryde, Sabine Reitmaier, Michael Schmidt, Hendrik Schwantes, Sylvia Sleigh, Lucie Stahl, Herbert Tobias, Christopher Williams and much more.
2015, English
Softcover, 230 pages, 20.5 x 27 cm
Published by
Cura. / Rome
$20.00 - Out of stock
cura. is a quarterly magazine, a publishing house, an exhibition space and a platform for editorial and curatorial activities, based in Rome, Italy.
CURA. No.20
FALL 2015
Cover by Allison Katz
INSIDE THE COVER
Allison Katz. Pungent Painting
text by Ruba Katrib
PORTRAITS IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE
Wim Beeren and Tomorrow’s Museum
by Lorenzo Benedetti
TALKING ABOUT
Why Poetry?
by Jean-Max Colard
POP-UP SECTION: DISPLAY
ISSUE 01
You Display, I Display, We Display
by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade
ABOUT
Josh Kline
by Ciara Moloney
PROJECT
A Wonderful World Under Construction
by GCC
SPOTLIGHT
Ryan Gander
in conversation with Adam Carr
ABOUT
Michael E. Smith
by Jenny Jaskey
A VISIT TO
Pedro Barateiro: The Current Situation /
Palmeiras Bravas, Museu Colecão Berardo, Lisbon
with João Mourão & Luís Silva
ABOUT
Marguerite Humeau
by Hans Ulrich Obrist
HOT!
Olga Balema
by Chris Sharp
Darja Bajagić
by Franklin Melendez
Sascha Braunig
by Rose Bouthillier
Rachel Rose
by Frances Loeffler
PROJECT
Villa Design Group
and Nicoletta Lambertucci
PROJECT
Lena Henke and Anna Gritz
2015, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$29.00 - Out of stock
Decades following the rise of computer aided design and the aesthetic-theoretical debates that coincided, it might seem late, at this point, to place a spotlight on photography. After all, hardly anyone defends photography’s loyalty to the analog index anymore, or mourns the medium specificities of centuries past. And yet, who can dispute that the photograph has become the primary base for establishing identity now, for cohering a social body; one that, as the substrate across which today’s human subject is drawn, stands as, in a sense,our material support? As the image’s gaze has become omnipresent, it is perhaps prime time to ask how do we now understand photo-media to operate? What information do we expect it to carry? What facts do we trust it to convey?
ISSUE NO. 99 / SEPTEMBER 2015 “PHOTOGRAPHY”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
LOST TRACES OF LIFE / A conversation about indexicality in analog and digital photography between Isabelle Graw and Benjamin Buchloh
LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ
SCANNERS
ROBIN KELSEY
PHOTOGRAPHY, LACAN, AND THE GENIUS OF JEFF KOONS
PETER OSBORNE
THE DISTRIBUTED IMAGE
ANNA GASKELL
LIFE IN THE SYSTEM
TIMUR SI-QIN
TRUE LIES
MICHAEL HAGNER
THE PHOTOBOOK, POST-DIGITAL
CLEMENS JAHN
PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY
SETH PRICE
LECTURE ON THE EXTRA PART
BILDSTRECKE
BENJAMIN ASAM KELLOGG
OCULUS DEMOS MAXIMUS
SHORT CUTS
FUTURE NOT PRESENT / Helmut Draxler, Susanne von Falkenhausen, Amy Sillman, and Hong Zeiss on the 56th Venice Biennale
NEW DEVELOPMENT
DREAMING IN TRENDS / Michael Wang on the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
NO EXPO / Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho on the Fondazione Prada, Milan
OPEN SEASON / Nikoloz Japaridze with Natasha Randall on the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
ROTATION
HART SPRECHEN FÜR EINE GEMEINSAME WELT / Christian Kravagna über "Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft" von Achille Mbembe
GARY COOPER'S LIPSTICK / Thomas Beard on Boyd McDonald's "Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to 'Oldies' on TV"
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
WETRANSFER: MEDIATING THE MEDIATED SELF / Carson Chan on Britta Thie's "Translantics"
KLANG KÖRPER
WIR SIND GAR NICHT HIER / Joy Kristin Kalu über Richard Maxwells "The Evening", The Kitchen, New York
SHORT WAVES
Megan Francis Sullivan on Birgit Megerle at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna / Nuit Banai on Josef Strau at Secession, Vienna / Nina Franz über Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff in der Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
REVIEWS
BLAUE FLECKEN / Alexander García Düttmann über De La Fuente Oscar De Franco im Helmhaus, Zürich
HEARTS OF CONTROL / Dan Mitchell on Gili Tal at Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn
JEDERMANNS AUTOBIOGRAFIE / Kerstin Stakemeier über Mark Leckey im Haus der Kunst, München
MIT INDIEGOGO NACH PIONEERTOWN / Michael Kral über Pierre Bismuth in der Galerie Jan Mot, Brüssel
ALTE GEISTER / Philip Ursprung über Albert Oehlen in der Kunsthalle Zürich
OBITUARY
LAWRENCE WEINER
DOROTHEE FISCHER (1937-2015)
1970, German
Softcover, 100 pages, 21 x 28 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Wilhelm Heyne / Munich
$50.00 - Out of stock
Published in Germany in 1970, this book profiles four of the world's leading erotic photographers of the 1960s/1970s, Sam Haskins, David Hamilton, Francis Giacobetti, and Kishin Shinoyama. Each section of the book is illustrated with numerous colour and black and white examples of their work, accompanied by texts by Michael Naumann, Jean Cau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Yukio Mishima.
This publication seemed to be published to accompany a large photo exhibition, and this copy includes a printed German text guide in black and white, inserted by the previous owner.
This is the first printing from Wilhelm Heyne in Munich in 1970 with the Sam Haskins cover artwork. Later printings featured a cover by David Hamilton.
2015, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 18 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by
Self-Published / Melbourne
$6.00 - In stock -
"Brotherhood Sisterhood", produced in Melbourne in 2015, by GA and TG.
Softcover, 120 pages, 21 x 27.5 cm
1st edition of 2000, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Association Belle Haleine / Paris
Purple Institute / Paris
$60.00 - Out of stock
THE PURPLE JOURNAL ("Stories, Essays, Reports, Portraits, Chronicles, Photographs") Number 9, Fall-Winter 2006-2007.
A rare copy of this early edition of The Purple Journal, featuring Cosmic Wonder, Henry Roy, Jean-Michel Wicker, Vérnoique Branquinho, Comme des Garçons, Laetitia Benat, Xian Zhen Lui, Mariko Inoue, Gary Indiana, Elisabeth Obadia, Yukinori Maeda, Daniel Franco, Rasha Salti, Zena el-Khalil, Dniel Franco, Arnoldo Rivkin, Animal Collective, Sharon Mesmer, Von Sono, Daniel Bismuth, Elein Fleiss, Giasco Bertoli, Jeff Rian, Mark Fishman, Nakako Hayashi, Sebastien Jamain, Yohji Yamamoto, 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.
1978, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 127 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 31.5 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Congreve Publishing Company / New York
$120.00 - Out of stock
Wallflower, Deborah Turbeville’s debut full-scale book published in 1978, is often considered her masterpiece. This beautifully produced book features many of the stunning photographs with which she made her name, including the US Vogue “public bath house series” from 1975.
Deborah Turbeville was a famed American fashion photographer. She is widely credited with adding a darker, more brooding element to fashion photography, beginning in the early 1970s. Turbeville is one of just three photographers, together with Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, who essentially changed fashion photo shoots from traditional, well-lit images into something much more edgy. She was the only woman and only American among this trio. Her photographs appeared in numerous leading fashion magazines (including Nova and Vogue) and fashion advertisements, including ads for Bloomingdale’s, Bruno Magli, Nike, Ralph Lauren and Macy’s.
1985, English/Japanese
Softcover (in original protective plastic jacket), 93 pages, 21.3 x 26 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
PARCO / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Very scarce, first edition of this lovely Japanese book on the work of iconic American fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville, published by PARCO, Tokyo in 1985.
Les amoureuses du temps passé features a wonderful cross-section of Turbeville's moody and haunting photographic shoots, edited by Yasuo Kuboki and designed by Yasuo Ohmichi for the legendary PARCO fashion department store publishing imprint. Minimal English and Japanese text.
This copy comes in it's original protective "PARCO Vision Contemporary" plastic jacket.
Deborah Turbeville was a famed American fashion photographer. She is widely credited with adding a darker, more brooding element to fashion photography, beginning in the early 1970s. Turbeville is one of just three photographers, together with Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, who essentially changed fashion photo shoots from traditional, well-lit images into something much more edgy. She was the only woman and only American among this trio. Her photographs appeared in numerous leading fashion magazines (including Nova and Vogue) and fashion advertisements, including ads for Bloomingdale's, Bruno Magli, Nike, Ralph Lauren and Macy's.
1998, English
Softcover (die-cut w. flocking), 154 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Nest / New York
$60.00 - Out of stock
Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors was a unique and ground-breaking magazine published from 1997 to 2004, for a total run of 26 issues.
Marketed as an interior design magazine, and edited by Joseph Holtzman, Nest generally eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors showcased in other magazines, and instead featured photographs of nontraditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. Fred A. Bernstein, writing in the New York Times, wrote that Joseph Holtzman "believed that an igloo, a prison cell or a child's attic room (adorned with Farrah Fawcett posters) could be as compelling as a room by a famous designer." During its run, Nest showed the room of a 40-year-old diaper lover, the lair of an Indonesian bird that decorates with coloured stones and vomit, the final resting place of Napoleon’s penis, the quarters of Navy seamen, a barbed-wire-trimmed bed that doubled as a tank, and a Gothic Christmas card from filmmaker John Waters. Noted architect Rem Koolhaas called it "an anti-materialistic, idealistic magazine about the hyperspecific in a world that is undergoing radical leveling, an 'interior design' magazine hostile to the cosmetic." Artist Richard Tuttle was quoted as saying that Mr. Holtzman "channeled the collective unconscious, to give us the pleasure of ornament before we even knew we wanted it."
Nest issue 2, Fall 1998 features, amongst much more: artist Rosemarie Trockel (including a unique flocked cover design by Trockel), Igloo's by photographer Richard Harrington, sculptor Robert Gober on architect Jan Pol, master decorator Renzo Mongiardino, inmates reflect on the decor of a New Mexico Womens Correctional Facility, the temporary lodgings of novelist Muriel Spark, artist Vincent Fecteau an scholar Michael Lobel look at the work of actor-turned-decorator Hasi Hester, the apartment of Pierre et Gilles, and much more... A magazine like no other before or since.
2000, English
Softcover, 204 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Nest / New York
$60.00 - Out of stock
Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors was a unique and ground-breaking magazine published from 1997 to 2004, for a total run of 26 issues.
Marketed as an interior design magazine, and edited by Joseph Holtzman, Nest generally eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors showcased in other magazines, and instead featured photographs of nontraditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. Fred A. Bernstein, writing in the New York Times, wrote that Joseph Holtzman "believed that an igloo, a prison cell or a child's attic room (adorned with Farrah Fawcett posters) could be as compelling as a room by a famous designer." During its run, Nest showed the room of a 40-year-old diaper lover, the lair of an Indonesian bird that decorates with coloured stones and vomit, the final resting place of Napoleon’s penis, the quarters of Navy seamen, a barbed-wire-trimmed bed that doubled as a tank, and a Gothic Christmas card from filmmaker John Waters. Noted architect Rem Koolhaas called it "an anti-materialistic, idealistic magazine about the hyperspecific in a world that is undergoing radical leveling, an 'interior design' magazine hostile to the cosmetic." Artist Richard Tuttle was quoted as saying that Mr. Holtzman "channeled the collective unconscious, to give us the pleasure of ornament before we even knew we wanted it."
Nest issue 7, Winter 1999-2000 features, amongst much more: sculptor Scott Burton, Gingerbread house sculptor Nayland Blake documented by Nan Goldin, Diana Vreeland's apartment, Cairo's City of The Dead, Tom Sachs' "Bitch Lounge" photographed by Nathaniel Goldberg, the interiors of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), The tower of Eben-Ezer, jewerly designer Fulco do Verdura's Villa Niscemi in Silicy (of Lampedusa's The Leopard novel, and Antonioni's L'Avventura fame), and much more... A magazine like no other before or since.