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Scheltens & Abbenes - Zeen
Isbn 9784908526237
Publisher Case Publishing
Idea code 19126
€ 30.00
Artist duo Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes are considered among the most progressive still-life photographers in the Netherlands today. With the creative craftsmanship of artists, they produce images that draw viewers into a sense of wonder at the things we encounter in everyday life. At once fascinating and demanding, their meticulous examination brings overlooked details into sharp focus, in turn both flattening the pictured objects and bringing them to life. This publication coincides with a retrospective exhibition in Amsterdam covering eighteen years of colourful, minimal, and challenging work by Scheltens & Abbenes. With a text by Louise Schouwenberg.
418 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Thread Textielmuseum | Textiellab
Isbn 25900080
Publisher Textielmuseum
Idea code 19048
€ 21.00
‘Thread’ is a new magazine published by TextielMuseum / TextielLab. Located in Tilburg, the Dutch museum and atelier is taking textiles to a whole new level through the expertise of world-class talent, cutting-edge design innovations, exhibitions and masterclasses, and the most advanced digital weaving software, 3D knitting machines, laser-cutting equipment, and more. This first issue offers a broad overview of today’s booming textile industry, featuring interviews with Formafantasma, Rafaël Rozendaal, and Carole Baijings, profiles of designers Mae Engelgeer and Jaime Hayon, collection photos by Floor Knaapen, an interactive new work by Bart Hess, and more.
128 p, ills colour, 22 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Purple 31: The Paris Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 19079
€ 32.00
Purple Fashion is the avant-garde reference for fashion and style on the biannual fashion magazine market, with the usual big names. The Paris issue features texts on the city by authors like Éric Troncy, Bob Nickas, and Ariana Reines, photography by Nobuyoshi Araki, Dario Catellani, Olivier Zahm, Martin Parr, and others, and articles, interviews, and fashion shoots.
450 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x33 cm, hb, English
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My Residence 4 Scandinavian Interiors From Residence Magazine
Isbn 9789187543777
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 19011
€ 23.65
'My Residence' is an annual publication in English, covering the best of Scandinavian interiors, design, and architecture presented by 'Residence Magazine' throughout a year. This fourth issue features the homes of 17 creatives in the region, highlights new Scandinavian design, and discusses the importance of a place to wind down. The publiscation pays attention to the experience economy and how it affects the design industry, and pays a visit to a museum that celebrates excellent craftmanship and contemporary design.
172 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Self Service 50: Twenty Five Years
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Publisher Self Service
Idea code 19119
€ 26.50
Self Service 50 features contributions by Virgil Abloh, Saskia de Brauw, Emi Kaneko, Davis Sims, Melanie Ward, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Helmut Lang, and many more.
500 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Manon Van Kouswijk - Making Faces A Jewellery Playbook
Isbn 9780646994185
Publisher Manon Van Kouswijk
Idea code 18707
€ 35.70
Dutch artist and contemporary jeweller Manon van Kouswijk’s working methodology is based on exploring and translating archetypal jewellery forms and motifs through a range of materials and processes. An integral aspect of her practice is the framing and contextualising of her work through the making of exhibitions and artist’s publications. While rooted in a conceptual approach to making, her works embrace the sensual qualities of objects in their use of colour, weight, sound, rhythm, and material expression. This book, with its expressive, beaded characters of necklaces arranged as masks, suggests that if jewellery has a face, we might form an emotional connection with it.
54 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Archive Species: Bodies, Habits, Practices
Isbn 9789492095435
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 18674
€ 39.00
'Archive Species' is an inquiry into the representation of clothed bodies in print media since the 1970s. Artist Joke Robaard and writer Camiel van Winkel have been re-assembling and re-reading the vast archive of fashion and newspaper images that Robaard has collected since 1979. Together they selected images from the archive and arranged them into dynamic series or cycles, generating new narratives and unexpected pathways of signification. Using an artistic strategy of appropriation and alienation, the authors identify crucial connections between body, object, and behaviour, in an elaborate attempt to expose the hidden cultural and political layers of fashion photography.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Tartans - Blending Tradition With Modernity
Isbn 9784861526923
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19062
€ 21.30
What is tartan? Most people recognise this familiar pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. But it also has a long and complex history rooted in the Scottish Highlands. Originally tartans were made of dyed and woven wool, but today many other materials have taken on the pattern. This book presents the history of how tartans became a symbol of Scotland, diversifying and spreading to eventually reach a global market through fashion and design, with period drawings and paintings, 20th-century advertisements, and scores of swatches. From kilts, dresses, and capes, to haute couture and interior accents, tartan has become ubiquitous.
196 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese
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Matchbloc
Isbn 9781527228139
Publisher Nexo Publications
Idea code 18721
€ 26.10
‘MATCHBLOC’ is a compendium of matchbox labels from the Eastern Bloc, from the 1950s to early 1980s. Over 400 labels from Poland, Russia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and more are depicted, with themes that range from animals, household, food, sports, the outdoors, children, and the arts, to industry, architecture, transport, and the military. Encompassing a huge variety of illustrative styles and political and social messages, the labels have been diligently collected and compiled by Jane McDevitt, a web designer and avid collector of graphics and ephemera, and Neal Wittington, a graphic designer and lover of labels, tickets, and forms from around the world.
428 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Guido De Zan - An Idea Of Lighness / Ceramics 1978-2018
Isbn 9788875707408
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19114
€ 35.35
Guido De Zan was born in Milan in 1947, and in 1975 he began his research in the field of ceramics. He used stoneware and porcelain to create both sculptures and functional objects. This monograph is dedicated to his 40-year career as a ceramist, during which he sought ways to “lighten” the material and seek balance, however unstable it seemed. Comprising a rich catalogue of works divided into categories, it presents new texts by several authors, including De Zan himself. It also features a critical anthology of writings that emphasise the fundamental themes of De Zan’s research, from the relationship between art and manual labour, to his connection with Milan.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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The Design Of Castiglioni Brothers - Research Experimentation Method
Isbn 9788875707507
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19104
€ 50.55
This book brings together for the first time the works of the brothers Livio, Pier Giacomo, and Achille Castiglioni. It examines the collaboration between these three architects and designers, whose work has had a lasting influence on Italian design. New contributions by several authors focus on themes ranging from their first experiments to the creation of innovative projects and objects that have since become icons of design. Edited by architect and design historian Dario Scodeller, it recounts the role of Studio Castiglioni in the culture of design, their relationship with the commercial sector and the avant-garde, and the importance of “anonymous design” for design practice.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 24 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Frans Van Praet - De Jaarringen
Isbn 9789491819780
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19054
€ 49.90
Designer Frans L. Van Praet’s oeuvre evokes a fascinating ambiguity where narrative exuberance goes hand in hand with the less-is-more austerity of minimalism. His work falls under a particularly Flemish brand of surrealism that plays with both words and images, rooted in a folkloric imagination. These self-imposed limits have served as a guiding principle for the design of everyday items, allowing his unusual or quirky creations to form a synthesis of the utilitarian and the potential of the material. The complexity of Van Praet’s body of work is extensively presented in this large monograph, from interior design and furniture making, to his forays into installation art and architecture.
412 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 29 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Nm& A New Collection
Isbn 9789171008848
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 19012
€ 28.60
The result of a collaboration led by Matti Klenell, Carina Seth Andersson, Garbriella Gustafson, Mattias Ståhlbom, and Stina Löfgren, ‘NM&’ is both a new public living room and an explorative, tactile exhibition of contemporary design. Outfitting the restaurant and café at Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum, part of an extensive restoration and remodelling of the museum, offered an opportunity to shape a public space that tells the story of design in Sweden today. Roughly 50 designers and producers contributed their vision and voice to create a multifaceted art experience that includes interior architecture as well as light fixtures, furniture, textiles, glassware, cutlery, and other objects.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Archivio 03 - The Americana Issue
Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio Magazine
Idea code 19041
€ 15.05
When American surfers were sent to fight in Vietnam they took their boards with them, or at least tried to. Born on the beaches of California and Hawaii, surfing was a peaceful youth culture at odds with the politics of jungle conflict. As the first story in ‘The Americana Issue’ tells, the soldiers relied on the healing power of riding a wave. The magazine presents this and other stories gleaned from archives, covering topics like the Manhattan Project, powerful black female imagery, Jean Baudrillard on 9/11, visions of roadside America by John Margolies, Tony Oursler and the paranormal, Anthony Faramelli on symbolism and liberalism, alternative press from Provo to punk, and more.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Italian/English
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