World Food Books

Kai Althoff
"Ja, Herrkenn mich genau 'Wo wohnt ihr?'- Ab heute bei dir"

2001, German
Softcover, 50 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

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This early artist's publication by the artist Kai Althoff features drawings, photographs and installation views of his exhibition 'Aus Dir' at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. The book, entirely designed by the artist, contains pieces of artist-writings in German which parallels in his work of the two installations. Heavily illustrated throughout with Althoff's paintings, drawings and collected photographs.

Kai Althoff (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German visual artist and musician. Borrowing from moments of history, religious iconography, and counter-cultural movements, Althoff creates imaginary environments in which paintings, sculpture, drawing, video, and found objects commingle. Tapping a multitude of sources, from Germanic folk traditions to recent popular culture, from medieval and gothic religious imagery to early modern expressionism, Althoff’s characters inhabit imaginary worlds that serve as allegories for human experience and emotion. His image bank and painterly style also draw on the past, especially early-20th-century German Expressionism, reconfigured by introducing collaged technique.

File under: Kai Althoff Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Drawing Textiles

Lucy McKenzie
Chêne de Weekend

2009, English
Softcover, 124 pages, 28.5 x 19 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Chêne De Weekend was conceived and designed by the artist, and presents her work from the years 2006 to 2009 in text and image. Her huge paintings illustrate interiors and reference interior design drafts from the 19th century.

In the paintings, which are up to eight metres tall, she uses the historical technique of trompe-l’œil painting and exhibits them like pieces of theatre scenery in museums in Edinburgh, San Francisco, New York and Cologne.

Lucy Mckenzie explains the motivation behind her complex approach and this is complimented by two more texts: a fictional account of her time studying trompe-l’œil painting at the Ecole van der Kelen (a traditional painting school in Brussels) and a homage to the fashion designer Beca Lipscombe, one of her collaborators in Atelier.

As New copy.

File under: Beca Lipscombe Lucy Mckenzie Barbara Engelbach Lucy Mckenzie Walther König / Köln Art Painting Textiles Out-of-print / Rare

New Furniture / Neue Möbel 10

1971, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 162 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Verlag Gerd Hatje / Stuttgart

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Tenth edition of Gerd Hatje's absolutely invaluable and highly collectable modern furniture series, New Furniture / Neue Möbel, published in eleven comprehensive volumes between 1951-1971. This volume particularly special for those lovers of late 1960's European design and radical developments in plastic/modular/space furniture.

Profusely illustrated throughout with 468 gorgeous studio product photographs, featuring the work of manufacturers, architects, designers: Archizoom, Sergio Asti, Cini Boeri, Luigi Colani, Alvar Aalto, Eero Aarnio, Franco Albini, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Hans Bellmann, Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Achille and Pier Castiglione, Norman Cherner, Joe Colombo, Le Corbusier, Robin Day, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, Pierre Jeanneret, Henning Jensen, Knud Joos, Finn Juhl, Arne Karlsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Kaare Klint, Florence Knoll, Estelle and Erwine Laverne, Oliver Lundquist, Charles Rennie Macintosh, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Mathsson, Paul McCobb, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Sigurd Persson, Warren Platner, Gio Ponti, Harvey Probber, Robert Probst, Gerrit Rietveld, Jens Risom, Eero Saarinen, Tobia Scarpa, Richard Schultz, Ettore Sottsass, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley, Marco Zanuso, Artek, Artemide, B&B Italia, Cassina, Domus, Dunbar Furniture Company, Dux Mobel, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Knoll International, Van Keppel Green, Laverne, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Olivetti, Pierre Paulin, Harvey Probber, Jens Risom, Steelcase, Thonet, and many more (!)

Contents: introduction; illustrations; chairs; seating arrangements, sofas, beds; tables; office furniture; cabinets and shelves; nursery and school furniture; index: manufacturers, designers, photographers.

Edited by Gerd Hatje and Elke Kaspar.
A fantastic furniture resource.
Text in English and German.

Average—Good ex-libris w. only a few markings but general wear to cloth covers and extremities/corners. Lacks dust jacket.

File under: Archizoom Sergio Asti Cini Boeri Luigi Colani Alvar Aalto Eero Aarnio Franco Albini Gae Aulenti Mario Bellini Hans Bellmann Harry Bertoia Marcel Breuer Achille and Pier Castiglione Norman Cherner Joe Colombo Le Corbusier Robin Day Charles Eames Eileen Gray Walter Gropius Josef Hoffmann Arne Jacobsen Grete Jalk Pierre Jeanneret Henning Jensen Finn Juhl Knud Joos Arne Karlsen Poul Kjærholm Kaare Klint Florence Knoll Estelle and Erwine Laverne Oliver Lundquist Charles Rennie Macintosh Vico Magistretti Bruno Mathsson Paul McCobb Ludwig Mies van der Rohe George Nelson Isamu Noguchi Verner Panton Pierre Paulin Sigurd Persson Warren Platner Gio Ponti Harvey Probber Robert Probst Gerrit Rietveld Jens Risom Eero Saarinen Tobia Scarpa Richard Schultz Ettore Sottsass Ilmari Tapiovaara Hans Wegner Edward Wormley Marco Zanuso Artek Artemide B&B Italia Cassina Domus Dunbar Furniture Company Dux Mobel Fritz Hansen Kartell Knoll International Van Keppel Green Laverne Herman Miller Furniture Company Olivetti Steelcase Thonet Verlag Gerd Hatje / Stuttgart Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Textiles Ceramics / Glass

The Farm at Black Mountain College

2024, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 24.1 x 17.8 cm
Published by Atelier Editions / Los Angeles

$74.00 - In stock -

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Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. Through deep original research, this title follows renegade students, faculty & farmers as they establish a campus farm in the 1930s, build a better farm in the 1940s and watch it all collapse in the 1950s. In these engrossing pages, we encounter the extraordinary folk whose endeavours on the land helped shape the Black Mountain College of myth and extraordinary reality.From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards. The exploits of these BMC cultural luminaries have been recounted time and time again.David Silver’s fascinating new book offers a very different perspective. The farm was vital to BMC. Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance, while serving as a testing ground for self-sufficiency, communal living and collaboration—the most precious and precarious ingredient at the college.

David Silver (born 1968) is professor and chair of environmental studies at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on urban agriculture, hyperlocal food systems and food, culture and storytelling.

File under: Anni Albers Josef Albers Ruth Asawa John Cage Merce Cunningham Willem de Kooning Buckminster Fuller Ray Johnson Charles Olson M.C. Richards David Silver Atelier Editions / Los Angeles Ecology Ecology / Earth Whole Earth / Crafts Art Theory / Essay Textiles Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Painting Ceramics / Glass Sound / Music

Paris Collection Individuals 1998—1999 + 1999—2000 (2 Volumes)
Nakako Hayashi

1999 + 2000, English / Japanese
2 Vols. (softcover + hardcover), unpaginated, 15.5 x 11.5 cm / 18.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Little More / Tokyo

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Complete set of the 2 volumes of this wonderful pocket fashion journal/photo book published in 1999 and 2000, respectively, by Tokyo's Little More, documenting the 1998—1999 and 1999—2000 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 intimate collaborations with most 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, New York, and Tokyo — Colette, Purple Institute, The Pineal Eye, The Deep Gallery, Purple Cafe, Alleged Galleries... rare photo documentation of fashion graduate catwalks in Arnhem and Antwerp, artist ads and pages... An excellent time-capsule of 1990's anti-fashion world at its peak. Volume 1 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, Bernadette Van-Huy, Dorothee Perret, Carol Christian Poell, Keupr/van Bentum, Patrick van Ommeslaeghe, Wendy & Jim, Anne Daems, Fergadelic, Walter Pfeiffer, Bernadette Corporation, Mark Gonzales, Sofia Coppola, Jurgi Persoons, Walter Van Beirendonck, Melanie Rozema & Jeroen Teunissen, Benoit Meleard, Marcha Hüskes, Oscar Süleyman, and many more.

Texts in English and Japanese.

Near Fine, most complete copies both, with NF obi strips and dust jacket.

File under: Nakako Hayashi Elein Fleiss Little More / Tokyo Art Fashion Textiles Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare

DOMUS
No. 488 Luglio 1970 (EURODOMUS 3 ISSUE)

1970, Italian / English
Softcover, 116 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

domus No. 488 Luglio 1970 (EURODOMUS 3 Issue)
Editor : Gio Ponti

This special issue is entirely dedicated to the incredible EURODOMUS 3. Introduced by Gio Ponti and featuring a who's who of European design and art in 1970, all the presentations, environments, exhibitions and products are featured here, including the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Piero Gilardi, Gino Marotta, Joe Colombo, Charles and Ray Eames, Mario Bellini, Cino Boeri, Ugo La Pietra, Cesare Leonardi, Rodolfo Bonetto, Giorgio De Ferrari, Marc Berthier, Vico Magistretti, Raymond Loewy, César, Pierre Cardin, Guido Crepax, Bruni Munari, Olivier Mourgue, Fabio Mauri, Marc Held, Pierre Paulin, Enzo Mari, Alberto Rosselli, Claudio Salocchi, Ettore Sottsass jr., Giuseppe Rossi, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi, and so many more, plus new products from Brionvega, Olivetti, Kartell, Cassina, Artemide, Gufram, Zanotta, Henry Miller, Flexform, Artifort, Stilnovo, Roche e Bobois, Sintesis, Tenco, Driade, and so many more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks.

Good copy with edge wear and corner bumping from age.

File under: Ettore Sottsass Charles & Ray Eames Afra and Tobia Scarpa Tobia Scarpa Afra Scarpa Michelangelo Pistoletto Piero Gilardi Gino Marotta Joe Colombo Mario Bellini Ugo La Pietra Cesare Leonardi Rodolfo Bonetto Giorgio De Ferrari Marc Berthier Vico Magistretti Raymond Loewy César Pierre Cardin Guido Crepax Bruni Munari Olivier Mourgue Fabio Mauri Marc Held Pierre Paulin Enzo Mari Alberto Rosselli Claudio Salocchi Giuseppe Rossi De Pas-D'Urbino-Lomazzi Brionvega Olivetti Kartell Cassina Artemide Gufram Zanotta Henry Miller Flexform Artifort Stilnovo Roche e Bobois Sintesis Tenco Driade Cini Boeri Editoriale Domus / Milan Art Furniture Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Ceramics / Glass Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation

John Barbour
Hard/soft

2011, English
Softcover (die-cut), 140 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
Published by Experimental Art Foundation / Adelaide Yuill—Crowley / Sydney

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The rare published chronology of Australian artist John Barbour’s career beginning with the work; ‘immuredinpace’, (1988), through to his final exhibition held at the yuill|crowley gallery in Sydney, published by Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2011. Edited by Ewen McDonald. Fully illustrated with essays and bibliographical references.

"Hard/soft, the title of Ewen McDonald's introductory essay, traces the evolution of Barbour's practice from the late 1980s. The book includes insightful essays by Russell Smith, Michael Newall, Ian North and Linda Marie Walker on themes and projects, augmented by an interview with the artist by Anne Thompson ... an acknowledgement and celebration of John Barbour's significant contribution the visual arts over the past few decades. As the essays and reproductions of key works and installations reveal, Barbour is one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists."—Publisher.

John Barbour (b. 1954, The Hague, Netherlands. Lived and worked Adelaide, South Australia. Died 2011). John Barbour’s experimental and interdisciplinary practice comprises works on paper and cloth, sometimes incorporating deliberate stains, tears and child-like hand-embroidered text. Influenced by conceptual art and minimalism, Barbour’s work engages with ideas of human frailty and fallibility through the use of lowly and humble materials like cardboard, torn paper, Styrofoam and stained cloth. His works declare themselves not as ‘well-made’ in the tradition of fine crafts and art, or as ‘ready-mades’ in the sculptural tradition of anti-art, but as ‘un-made’: brought into existence through chance, accident and carelessness rather than accomplished as a demonstration of skill. In electing to pursue the transient, the accidental, the torn and unravelled, Barbour brings to our attention the fallibility and precariousness of existence in works of thought-provoking ambiguity and ambivalence.

As New.

File under: John Barbour Ewen McDonald Russell Smith Michael Newall Ian North Linda Marie Walker Anne Thompson Experimental Art Foundation / Adelaide Yuill—Crowley / Sydney Australian Art Minimal Art Textiles Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Art SALE

Orientalism
Edited by Andrew McNamara

1997, English
Softcover, 44 pages, 24 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by IMA / Brisbane Power Publications / Sydney

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce 1997 catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Orientalism, IMA, Brisbane, edited by art historian Andrew McNamara, featuring the work of Tony Clark, Debra Dawes, Kathleen Horton and Amanda Speight, Kate Mckay, Anne-Marie May, Helen Nicholson, Elizabeth Pulie, Bruce Reynolds, Constanze Zikos. Illustrated throughout in colour with works by the artists, with accompanying texts by Andrew McNamara, Michael Carter, Toni Ross, Keith Broadfoot.

Andrew McNamara is an art historian and professor of visual arts at the Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane. His publications include: Sweat; The Subtropical Imaginary (2011), An
Apprehensive Aesthetic (2009), and, with Ann Stephen and Philip Goad, Modern Times: The
Untold Story of Modernism in Australia (2008).

Good copy, some cover wear, sunning to spine.

File under: Tony Clark Debra Dawes Kathleen Horton Amanda Speight Kate Mckay Anne-Marie May Helen Nicholson Elizabeth Pulie Bruce Reynolds Constanze Zikos Andrew McNamara Michael Carter Toni Ross Keith Broadfoot IMA / Brisbane Power Publications / Sydney Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Textiles

Franz Erhard Walther
Werkmonographie 1955 - 1963; Material zum 1. Werksatz 1963 - 1969

1972, German / English
Softcover, 282 pages, 20 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln Kunsthalle Tübingen / Köln

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First 1972 edition of this profusely illustrated catalogue raisonné of German installation and conceptual artist known for his fabric objects and activations, Franz Erhard Walther, published in conjunction with show held at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, May 1972—July 1972, the same year as his participation in Harald Szeemann’s legendary Documenta 5. Very heavily illustrated with thorough documentation of his works from the 1960s and 1970s, textile works, paper works, performances, and more. Text in German with an English introduction.

Edited by Götz Adriani.
Text by Manfred Schmalriede.

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and Documenta 5 (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today. The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Very Good copy.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Götz Adriani Manfred Schmalriede DuMont / Köln Kunsthalle Tübingen / Köln Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Textiles Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera

Pierre Chareau
Modern Architecture and Design

2016, English
Hardcover, 288 pages, 29.2 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

$150.00 - In stock -

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First 2016 hardcover edition of the out-of-print and immediately collectible major monographic study of visionary French furniture designer and architect, Pierre Chareau, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity. First edition hardcover of this now highly sought after, stunning and in-depth volume committed to Chareau.

The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883–1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass house, the Maison de Verre, is celebrated, but the breadth of his design genius has been little explored. Chareau linked architecture, fine arts, and style; designed furniture for avant-garde films and chic homes; collected artists such as Picasso and Mondrian; and was a radical innovator in the use of materials. Essays by leading scholars embrace the full scope of his invention, offering detailed analyses of individual projects, the interdisciplinary nature of his work, his Jewish background, his place in the avant-garde of Paris between the wars, and his more recent reception. Extensive illustrations present a rich sampling of Chareau’s furniture, architecture, interiors, fabrics, and wallpapers, as well as his own important art collection.

Esther da Costa Meyer is professor of modern architecture at Princeton University. Bernard Bauchet is an architect and scholar based in Paris. Olivier Cinqualbre is chief curator of architecture at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen is Sheldon H. Solow Chair for the History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Robert M. Rubin is an independent scholar and curator. Kenneth E. Silver is professor of modern art at New York University. Brian Brace Taylor is professor of history and theory of architecture at the New York Institute of Technology.

As New copy. Not the later re-print.

File under: Pierre Chareau Esther da Costa Meyer Yale University Press / New Haven Architecture / Interior Furniture Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Art

Sarah Lucas
Bunny Book

2024, English
Hardcover (cloth bound), 335 pages, 33 x 24 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$120.00 - In stock -

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Sarah Lucas: Bunny Book catalogues Sarah Lucas’s ongoing – and now iconic – sculptural Bunny series, begun in 1997. Formed of tights stuffed with kapok or wool fluff, stockings (and latterly shoes), appended to chairs, the sculptures conjure the uncanny spectacle of seated female nudes in states of abject vulnerability and abandon, adapting over time to assume a more emphatic self-confidence and attitudinising swagger. Spanning Lucas’s three-decade career, this richly illustrated catalogue brings together seminal works in the series charting their evolution through the addition of colour, plinths and cast bronze, concrete and metal.

File under: Sarah Lucas Rose Eastwood Nancy Spector Roisin Tappioni Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Textiles

Bizarre (+ Exotic Sexy) by Azzlo
Photography by Kinichi Tanaka

1989, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tsukasa Shobo / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1989 fetishwear photobook and catalogue for famous Japanese store Azzlo, purveyors of all things bizarre fashion. Full colour gloss photography throughout by Kinichi Tanaka documenting models in erotic scenes fashioning Azzlo's "bizarre latex items, leather bondage-equipment, exotic high-heels, maids uniforms, pants, skirts, bras, victorian corsets, ballet shoes, masks, hoods, cat-suits, baby dolls, t-shirts, gloves, garters, wigs, bloomers, shoes & boots"... Heavy on pvc, latex, leather and lace, all catalogued with specifications, list prices and ordering information. Azzlo was established in Shinjuku at the end of the 1980's by artist, costume designer and student of Kaneko Kuniyoshi, Yumi Azzlo. Azzlo and her store/gallery space became vital to the Tokyo subculture in the 1990's.

VG—NF copy, light bowing.

File under: Kinichi Tanaka Yumi AZZLO Tsukasa Shobo / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography Textiles Eros Counterculture

Le Vetrine Di Milano

1982, Italian / English / French / Japanese / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 212 pages, 22 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Edizioni L'Agrifoglio / Milan

$160.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of the scarce and wonderful "Le Vetrine Di Milano", published in 1982 by Edizioni L'Agrifoglio in Milan. If you ever wished to know what is was like to wander the piazzas and gaze through the shop windows of Milan in the early 1980s, this book lets you do just that. "Milan "presents itself" by way of its shopwindows, it expresses and fulfills itself in them." In 1982, local photographer Maurizio Montanari documented the latest designs and displays of boutiques and gallerias throughout the streets and squares of Milan, from Fiorucci to Christian Dior, Krizia to Arteluce, Pierre Cardin to Gucci. Views of delicate laces, day-glo sports wear, shimmering Alfa Romeos and ornate tapestries are reflected with the gaze of passers-by and the surrounding city landscape in Montanari's photographic flânerie. Illustrated throughout in vivd colour with texts in Italian / English / French / Japanese / German.

Good copy in VG dust jacket. Would be Very Good but only with loosening stitch binding (still strong and intact) and a couple of editing design notes in pencil (copy from collection in Milan).

File under: Maurizio Montanari Luciano Visintin Edizioni L'Agrifoglio / Milan Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Textiles Furniture

Viscose 6
TEXT

2024, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 33 x 24.7 cm
Published by Viscose / Copenhagen

$55.00 - Out of stock

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The sixth issue of Viscose Journal focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of “writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries.

The fashion writer is a confidant, a storyteller, a forecaster, a mythmaker; they are evocative and poetic, forming words that shape, and in turn are shaped by, the latest fashions. From the salon shows to the pages of fashion magazines, their “expressions may be as ephemeral as the fashions they describe,” as Dorothy Hughes noted already in 1935. Early fashion writing played a key role in the transformation of clothes into fashion each season, and in igniting the machine of fashion itself. The historical roots of fashion writing— which was, at least in an industry context, a distinctly female practice— are grounded in the modernization and seasonalization of industrial fashion. And even today, in an age described by many as image-driven, this remains true: across various media platforms, language not only surrounds fashion but also continuously contributes to its creation.

The succinct, ephemeral poetry of the fashion writer still plays—nearly a century since Hughes’ observation—a transformative role in the seasonal turnover of fashion, but its role in the fashion industry remains seriously overlooked. Fashion invests substantially in seasonally refreshing the visual messaging accompanying its physical commodities, but language plays a similarly important support in this artful game of marketing. In this industrial context spanning from press releases to magazine production, writing is devoted to fashion promotion, prioritizing its fundamental traits of novelty, urgency, and semiotic complexity. In this context, fashion writing is a process of mystification, capable of revealing things that the image cannot. The material conditions of fashion writing—of being for fashion—generates a unique set of poetics and syntax. Fashion writing, or “written fashion,” as Roland Barthes asserts, is a form of signification that is simultaneously real and imaginary, connected to the real garment that it signifies, but largely unencumbered by its materiality. Given the constraints of economic, cultural, and political factors on fashion writing, it is perhaps more interesting to ask, what is fashion writing really encumbered by, and what would it mean to “unencumber” it?

Since Baudelaire, art critics have turned to fashion as source material for their practice, casting fashion in the role of art’s capitalist conspirator, temporal truth-sayer, or feminine alter-ego. This erratic history is one filled with both fraught politics (rooted in a gendered division of labor) as well as critical possibility: art writing gestures to a style of intellectualism and independence from industry that is largely foreign in fashion. Viscose Journal has, since its founding, aimed to detach fashion criticism from industrial frameworks that has historically premised it. At the same time, informed by a materialist politics of fashion labor, we wish to seriously level the largely female writing of commercial fashion publications with the masculine philosophical inquiries of fashion.

While “fashion writing” denotes a thematic category within the wider field of writing, our theme of “writing fashion” prompts an exploration of fashion writing as a mode of fashion production and critique. This issue aims to explore writing as a tool for shaping fashion and broaden its perspectives by presenting a survey of experimental, fictocritical, and poetic approaches to writing fashion. In this expanded field of writing, “fashion” unfolds as a ubiquitous and epistemologically complex phenomena of everyday life pertinent to all.

Accompanied by the exhibition “Writing Fashion“ at and published by the International Library for Fashion Research in Oslo, Norway, staged in June 2024, Viscose Journal 06 strives to be a thought-provoking journey into the captivating intersection of fashion and language. We are grateful to the library’s fantastic team and collaborators for their ongoing support and collaboration.

with works by: Osman Ahmed, Alba Aragón, Katherine Bernard, Ricarda Bigolin, Eileen Chang, Dal Chodha, Eduardo Costa, Jose Unzueta Criale, Femke De Vries, Becket Flannery, Kennedy Fraser, Laura Gardner, Patrick Greaney, Bruce Hainley, Elizabeth Hawes, Nakako Hayashi, Devin Hentz, Elaine Wing-Ah Ho, Juje Hsiung, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Jamaica Kinkaid, Chantal Kirby, Jeremy Lewis, Davora Lindner, Hanne Lippard, Shanzhai Lyric, Shizuang Magazine, Celine Mathieu, Derek Mccormack, H.B. Peace, Julie Peeters, John Perrault, Vogue Runway Rag, Rachel Tashjian, Jeppe Ugelvig, Elizabeth VR, Hanna Weiner, Elizabeth Wilson, Yohji Yamamoto, Bruno Zhu

File under: Osman Ahmed Alba Aragón Katherine Bernard Ricarda Bigolin Eileen Chang Dal Chodha Eduardo Costa Jose Unzueta Criale Femke De Vries Becket Flannery Kennedy Fraser Laura Gardner Patrick Greaney Bruce Hainley Elizabeth Hawes Nakako Hayashi Devin Hentz Elaine Wing-Ah Ho Juje Hsiung Olivia Kan-Sperling Jamaica Kinkaid Chantal Kirby Jeremy Lewis Davora Lindner Hanne Lippard Shanzhai Lyric Shizuang Magazine Celine Mathieu Derek Mccormack H.B. Peace Julie Peeters John Perrault Vogue Runway Rag Rachel Tashjian Jeppe Ugelvig Elizabeth VR Hanna Weiner Elizabeth Wilson Yohji Yamamoto Bruno Zhu Viscose / Copenhagen Periodicals Fashion Fiction / Poetry Textiles Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Pleats Please by Issey Miyake / Issey Miyake by Irving Penn
Two-volume Exhibition Catalogue, 1990

1990, English / Japanese
Softcover (two-volume catalogue house in original printed cardboard sleeve w. invitation), 21 x 30 cm, 40 pages / 20 pages / folded invitation
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Touko Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

$280.00 - Out of stock

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The incredibly rare and beautiful two-volume catalogue edition, issued in conjunction with the exhibition "Issey Miyake: Pleats Please" at Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1990.

This is a first (only) edition printing in VG—fine condition, with additional inserted exhibition folding invitation to the private reception in 1990.

Housed in their original printed cardboard folder/pocket, these two publications, designed by Ikko Tanaka, both feature text in English and Japanese. Volume one: "Pleats Please by Issey Miyake" examines the exhibition "Issey Miyake: Pleats Please", which saw the first presentation of renowned Japanese designer Issey Miyake's new technique called garment pleating, in which the garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear. Miyake's pleating works were first exhibited here in 1990, three years before the launch of the famous line "Pleats Please" in 1993. The publication documents production and installation photography from the exhibitions, where the garments were set into a custom built floor system.

Volume Two: "Issey Miyake by Irving Penn", features stunning photography by the great Irving Penn, of each of Issey Miyake's first "Pleats Please" garments together with a poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa.

This is truely a collector's item for any Issey Miyake enthusiast or collector, marking the beginning of "Pleats Please" through the photography of Irving Penn. This copy has been well looked after, with both books in wonderful condition, protected by the original printed folder sleeve, which is also in preserved condition.

VG—F condition all round.

File under: Irving Penn Issey Miyake Shuntaro Tanikawa Touko Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography Textiles Art

Een modebeeld
(SM No. 430)

1968, Dutch
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam

$70.00 - In stock -

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One of the rarest of the wonderful Wim Crouwel-designed Stedelijk Museum catalogues (SM Nr. 430), published on the occasion of the Een modebeeld exhibition, showcasing the work of 4 young Dutch avant-garde fashion-designers : Alice Edeling, Berry Brun, Maarten van Dreven, Jan Jansen. Beautifully spot colour printed (including metallics) on thick raw pink card stock, the special design of the book features a fashion doll on the cover which can be dressed with fashion designs from inside by the featured designers. Includes drawings, some portraits of designers involved, biographies and notes on each designer. This was the first presentation of shoes by iconic Amsterdam shoe designer Jan Jansen.

Very Good copy, light wear/light tanning.

File under: Wim Crouwel Alice Edeling Berry Brun Maarten van Dreven Jan Jansen Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam Fashion Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Art Graphic Design / Typography

Comme des Garçons SIX, issue 7

1991, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. original silk-screened plastic sleeve), 36 pages, 39.5 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Comme des Garçons / Tokyo

$300.00 - Out of stock

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The seventh issue of Comme des Garçons 'Six' magazine (1991) featuring avant-garde photography exploring the idea of the 'Sixth Sense' while reflecting the Spring 1991 collection, including conceptual works by acclaimed photographers Christian Moser, David Seidner, Madame Yevonde, Brian Griffin, Jeurgen Teller, Javier Vallhonrat. Cover story and photo series featuring Comme des Garçons photographed by Christian Moser.

Between 1988 and 1991, Comme des Garçons explored the theme of the sixth sense via eight special biannual oversized, unstapled magazines titled 'Six'. These magazines were launched to coincide with Comme des Garçons fashion collections and were privately distributed at the time. The magazine visually represented the brand in a way that no other fashion company had before. Rei Kawakubo invited Tsuguya Inoue to art direct and Atsuko Kozasu to edit the issues, whilst contributions came from different designers and artists.

Issues of Comme des Garçons 'Six' have become very sought after collectors items.

Very Good—Near Fine copy in original silkscreened Comme des Garçons plastic sleeve (general wear to protective sleeve, magazine is bright and clean)

File under: Comme Des Garçons Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo Christian Moser David Seidner Madame Yevonde Brian Griffin Jeurgen Teller Javier Vallhonrat Comme des Garçons / Tokyo Fashion Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Textiles Art Film / Video

Maison Martin Margiela '10' — '14' : Collection pour Homme Spring — Summer 2007

2007, English / French
Softcover (leporello fold)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Maison Martin Margiela / Paris

$100.00 - In stock -

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Rare canvas covered leporello lookbook for Maison Martin Margiela '10' — '14' Spring/Summer 2007 Menswear Collection. The book features 24 photos by photographer Jacques Habbah. Each one of these lookbooks were handmade in the Parisian press office. The photos are printed and glued on a piece of white cotton cloth. They served both as an important communication tool and as an aid for wholesale clients to show perspective buyers the most representative looks of the collection.

Very Good copy.

File under: Maison Martin Margiela Martin Margiela Jacques Habbah Maison Martin Margiela / Paris Objects / Ephemera / A/V Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Textiles

Hermès Fall-Winter 1999-2000

1999, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hermès / Paris

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare English edition of the iconic in-house magazine of the French fashion house, Hermès, highlighting the Fall-Winter 1999-2000 collection designed by Martin Margiela. This very special early MM/Hermès photo collection is comprised of portraits of women in Hermès photographed by Mark Borthwick, Joanna Van Mulder, Tim Richmond, Luc Perenom, and others.

Very Good copy with light corner creases.

File under: Maison Martin Margiela Martin Margiela Hermés Hermès / Paris Photography Fashion Textiles Out-of-print / Rare

Patronen / Patterns

2003, English / Dutch
Hardcover, 228 pages, 26 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by MoMu / Antwerp Ludion / Brussels Ludion / Ghent

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Seldom seen first limited edition copy of the hardcover catalogue, Patronen / Patterns, published in 2003 on the occasion of the unique exhibition on pattern-making curated by Kaat Debo at MoMu - ModeMuseum Antwerp, 24.04.2003—10.08.2003 — almost immediately out-of-print. Showcasing the work of Haider Ackermann, Azzedine Alaïa, Balenciaga, Véronique Branquinho, Pierre Cardin, Hussein Chalayan, Courrèges, Ann Demeulemeester, Dior Haute Couture, Sevin Doering, Angelo Figus, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Romeo Gigli, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Josephus Thimister, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, A.F. Vandevorst, Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe, Madeleine Vionnet, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, and Yves Saint Laurent, along with the photographic work of artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang, this lavishly illustrated and well-researched volume gives rare insight into this fundamental, largely un-documented aspect of contemporary fashion design, illuminating the new avant-garde alongside the history of dress-making, most importantly reproducing the actual pattern designs of many of the featured designers.

"The pattern is traditionally seen as a technical drawing and therefore, in a museum context, only interesting for research or study. With regard to both purchasing and exhibition policies, fashion museums focus mainly on the end product – the garment – and in so doing rarely exhibit the pattern, let alone acquire or purchase it. "Patterns" aims to explore both the technical and the artistic and cultural philosophy aspects of a clothing pattern."

Includes bi-lingual texts in English/Dutch by Kaat Debo, Dirk Lauwaert, Linda Loppa, Frieda Sorber, Christoph De Boeck, Neeltje ten Westenend, Karin De Coster, and more.

Average—Good copy. Cloth covers well-worn with marks, general age/tanning to book extremities, some (erasable) pencil underlining to text by previous owner. No dust jacket (as issued).

File under: Véronique Branquinho Courreges Jean-Paul Gaultier Haider Ackermann Balenciaga Pierre Cardin Hussein Chalayan Ann Demeulemeester Dior Sevin Doering Angelo Figus Romeo Gigli Hubert de Givenchy Christian Lacroix Martin Margiela Issey Miyake Josephus Thimister Walter Van Beirendonck Dirk Van Saene A.F. Vandevorst Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe Madeleine Vionnet Vivienne Westwood Yohji Yamamoto Yves Saint Laurent Azzedine Alaïa Dirk Lauwaert Linda Loppa Frieda Sorber Christoph De Boeck Neeltje ten Westenend Karin De Coster Kaat Debo MoMu / Antwerp Ludion / Brussels Ludion / Ghent Fashion Theory / Essay Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Relax #70
Undercover "Scab" special issue

2002, Japanese
Softcover, 29.4 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by relax / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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December 2002 issue of 'Relax' magazine from Tokyo, with cover feature on Japanese fashion label "Undercover". Includes fifteen pages of behind-the-scenes photos of designer Jun Takahashi and friends/colleagues in preparation for Undercover's 'Scab' runway show in Paris, 2002. Also has a rare interview with Jun, in Japanese. This issue also features Mark Gonzalez, Nike "Reconstruct", Steel drumming, and much more.

Relax was an iconic Japanese style magazine that primarily ran throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, becoming an important reference source for trends in graphic design, urban fashion, music, and lifestyle, both in and out of Japan.

Fine copy.

File under: Undercover relax / Tokyo Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Textiles Periodicals

SD (Space Design) no. 222, 1983
Italy: Memphis, Olivetti, Castiglioni, Sottsass, Rossi, Ambasz...

1983, Japanese
Softcover, 138 pages, 22 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Kajima Institute Publishing / Tokyo

$70.00 $35.00 - Out of stock

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SD (Space Design) no. 222, 1983, featuring in-depth special feature on Italian design (furniture, architecture, textile, graphic, industrial...) including MEMPHIS Milano, Michael Graves, Nathalie du Pasquier, Ettore Sottsass, Marco Zanini, Michele De Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Matteo Thun, George Sowden, Marco Zanini, Marco Zanuso, Martine Bedin, Shiro Kuramata, etc., Achille Castiglioni, Olivetti, Hans von Krier, Vittorio Gregotti, Emilio Ambasz, Aldo Rossi, Isao Hosoe, Centro DA, Pietro Salmoiraghi, and much more...

“SD” (Space Design) was founded in Japan in 1965; a comprehensive monthly magazine on architecture, urban problems and fine arts which was unique in the world and quickly became a leading, highly-esteemed journal of international modern design. In-depth articles, photo documents, plans, reports and interviews, SD is one of the finest journals dedicated to new design (architecture, furniture, interior, environmental, industrial...), becoming a much sought-after archival resource.

Good copy.

File under: Michael Graves Nathalie du Pasquier Ettore Sottsass Marco Zanini Michele De Lucchi Andrea Branzi Alessandro Mendini Matteo Thun George Sowden Marco Zanuso Martine Bedin Shiro Kuramata etc. Achille Castiglioni Olivetti Hans von Krier Vittorio Gregotti Emilio Ambasz Aldo Rossi Isao Hosoe Centro DA Pietro Salmoiraghi Memphis Kajima Institute Publishing / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Textiles SALE

JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN
no. 183 June 1974

1974, Japanese / English
Softcover, 96 pages, 32.5 × 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Japan's finest magazine for interior design, architecture and home furnishings, edited by Moriyama Kazuhiko. JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN presented "a monthly comprehensive view of traditional, contemporary, and contemplated environmental designs and pure art forms both Japanese and foreign, through pictures and critical reviews. English captions and summaries of major articles are provided each issue." The in-depth analysis in which JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN committed to covering new international furniture, textile, product, environmental, and interior design developments and major events from the period (1950s-1980s), places it soundly alongside its Italian comrade Domus. Lavishly illustrated throughout with beautiful photography in colour and b/w, with comprehensive plans, drawings and elevations bringing many innovative and long lost architectural and industrial designs into sharp focus. A wealth of archival reference material in each issue for any enthusiast of modern and space age design.

no. 183 June 1974
CONTENTS :
FEATURE OF THE MONTH : CANVAS IN FURNITURE & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Canvas Environment essay by Masayuki Kurokawa
Recent Canvas Furniture
Canvas Products Designed by Olivier Mourgue
International Canvas Furniture Design Competition
< CONTEMPORANEA > Italian Design: A New Approach to Living Environment
Tokyo Branches of Two Foreign Banks < Bank of America Tokyo Branch > < Bangkok Bank Limited Tokyo Branch > design: MEC Design International Co.
Systematized Office Furniture < Set 1 > design: Carlo Bartoli + coll. Fumio Okura
New Furniture by Tendo Mokko design & manufacture: Tendo Mokko Co., Ltd.
Table Ware by Tajima design & manufacture: Ginza Tajima
< Graphi Textile > = A Private Exhibition by Masakazu Kobayashi
Shinjuku Sumitomo Building design & management: Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
cover design: Canvas Furniture Designed by Pullirsch + Weber, West Germany

File under: Olivier Mourgue Carlo Bartoli Masakazu Kobayashi Günter Uecker Carl Bucher Heidi Bucher Robert Venturi Michael Graves Riccardo Dalisi Franco Raggi Alberto Ferrari Peter Eisenman Richard Shaw Ettore Sottsass Lapo Binazzi UFO Gruppo Strum Ugo La Pietra Gianni Pettena Alessandro Mendini Gérard Titus-Carmel Enrico D. Bona Carlo Guenzi Piero Sartogo Masayuki Kurokawa Moriyama Kazuhiko Alessandro Mendini Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Architecture / Interior Textiles Ceramics / Glass

JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN
No.138, September 1970

1970, Japanese / English
Softcover, 96 pages, 32.5 × 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Japan's finest magazine for interior design, architecture and home furnishings, edited by Moriyama Kazuhiko. JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN presented "a monthly comprehensive view of traditional, contemporary, and contemplated environmental designs and pure art forms both Japanese and foreign, through pictures and critical reviews. English captions and summaries of major articles are provided each issue." The in-depth analysis in which JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN committed to covering new international furniture, textile, product, environmental, and interior design developments and major events from the period (1950s-1980s), places it soundly alongside its Italian comrade Domus. Lavishly illustrated throughout with beautiful photography in colour and b/w, with comprehensive plans, drawings and elevations bringing many innovative and long lost architectural and industrial designs into sharp focus. A wealth of archival reference material in each issue for any enthusiast of modern and space age design.

JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN
No.138, September 1970
Very rare, this issue includes a huge cover feature on SUPERSTUDIO "DESIGNERS WHO PHILOSOPHIZE" which includes profiles on a series of Italian Bookstore, Night Club and Boutique designs by SUPERSTUDIO, "Enclosure of Serenity", Lighting Fixtures, Fumiturel "Luxor Series" from the Antique Furniture Fair, The Florence Architectural Exhibition "Trigon ’69", "The Continuous Monument" - A Project for Italian Pavilion at Expo’70, fold-out pages, interviews and much more.

Also includes "Easy Chair" by Tobia Scarpa; Furniture Design by l; Furniture Manufacturer of the World "Knoll International" U. S. A.; Bar―Wagon by Tadao Ando; Men’s Wear Shop "MARKET ONE EDWARD’S" interior design: Kuramata Design Associates; Two Floor-Lamp Designs by Nanda Vigo; Camera Attachments Designed by Joe C. Colombo; "Space Jack" Living Capsule for Leisure design & production: Team JEMCO; Theatrical Design for a Kabuki Play design: Kaoru Kanamori & Associates and much more.

File under: Joe Colombo Nanda Vigo Pierre Paulin Shiro Kuramata Superstudio Tadao Ando Tobia Scarpa Afra Scarpa Afra and Tobia Scarpa Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Textiles