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Lina Bo Bardi & Studio de Arte Palma - Revived Masterpieces from Bittencourt House
Isbn 9788412604719
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 22765
€ 32.70
This book presents the masterpieces designed by Lina Bo Bardi for Casa Bittencourt, through her studio de Arte Palma in 1949-50. Casa Bittencourt is a project from Vilanova Artigas, godfather of the so-called Paulista school. It encompasses the encounter of two of Brazilian most prominent architects and the rare vision that Lina pioneered and tried to accomplish for Brazilian furniture, their materials, their use, their beauty, and unique tools.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Portuguese/English
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Super Sewing
Isbn 9789619575109
Publisher Superanselma
Idea code 23002
€ 38.80
‘Super Sewing’ is a transparent and comprehensive manual on sewing. With precise step-by-step instructions, you can learn how to sew your own bag and clothing, regardless of prior experience. It is presented visually with clear illustrations and no text at all. The book includes the basics of sewing machines, fabrics and cutting patterns, garment assembly sequences, foldings, finishes, pockets, splits, zippers, and hemmings. The author Ana Malalan Čeligoj started sewing at the age of 12. She is the founder of Anselma, and has been leading sewing and tailoring courses since 2010.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb,
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The End of Books
Isbn 9783907384022
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 22727
€ 50.95
Between 2019 and 2022 the authors Alberto Vieceli and Sebastian Cremers collected more than 2,000 images of bookends. The diversity of books calls for a certain order. How we order something also reflects our way of thinking. 'The End of Books' represents a subtle dramaturgy of the entire cosmos of book genres. Diverse objects relating to each other are depicting a story of thoughts and our existence.
288 p, ills bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Nathalie Du Pasquier - How Many (cardboard book)
Isbn 9783952569009
Publisher Rookie Books
Idea code 22760
€ 28.60
Nathalie Du Pasquier (born 1957), a Milan-based artist and designer, was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group for which she created decorated surfaces, patterns, textiles, furniture and objects. She has dedicated herself to painting since 1987. With her counting book, designed exclusively for Rookie Books, readers young and old will learn the numbers from 1 to 10 in no time.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Vaclav Pozarek - Sweet Wood (cardboard book)
Isbn 9783952569016
Publisher Rookie Books
Idea code 22766
€ 28.60
Vaclav Pozarek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1940 and has lived in Bern for almost 50 years. His sculptural vocabulary is influenced by constructivism, minimalism, concrete art, but also shows a great affinity for the ordinary everyday objects that surround us. In “Sweet Wood” Pozarek shows us with the simplest of means how small the leap from the artist’s studio to the children’s room really is. A must-have for friends of simplicity, harmony and order.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Wild Animals Calendar - Rop van Mierlo
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Publisher Rop van Mierlo
Idea code 22734
€ 27.00
Perpetual/Birthday calendar featuring 12 animals from the Bench Players - a series of previously unseen animals from Rop van Mierlo's archive.
26 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Homemade Record Sleeves
Isbn 9782490445080
Publisher Artderien
Idea code 22719
€ 26.90
This book presents an extensive collection of record sleeves that have been customised and reworked by unknown artists. Using the original cover as a support or source of inspiration, these intimate, amateur works are a marginal, overlooked experience in the history of iconography and pop music. A wide range of music is covered, offering a broad perspective on almost every continent. Patrice Caillet is a theatre, dance and music programmer, while Alan Courtis, aka Anla Courtis, is a musician and composer whose works have been performed in many countries. Also included is a forword by Arnaud Labelle-Roujoux.
192 p, ills colour, 20 x 20 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Who can Afford to be Critical?
Isbn 9789083270630
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23006
€ 15.00
Afonso Matos is a Portuguese designer and researcher who is based in The Netherlands. This book is a collection of fanzines inspired by conversations and texts around four main themes: the bubble of the (critical) design school; the power of design and the agency of designers; the nature of design; and collective power. Included are excerpts from Matos’ thesis on the use of design as a social critique and agent of change, his transparent disclosures and personal investigation into the impact of privilege on critical design, as well as the contributions from Silvio Lorusso, J. Dakota Brown, Marianela D’Aprile, Somnath Bhatt, the DAE students of 2021/2022, and many more.
92 p, ills bw, 18 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Stoffe
Isbn 9788822906724
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22786
€ 86.00
Known for her love of cloth in her artistic career, ‘Stoffe’ is Isabella Ducrot’s tribute to textiles, as well as a catalogue of her personal collection of fabrics obtained during her extensive travels in Asia. These antique textiles originate primarily from Turkey, India, China, Tibet, and Afghanistan. The Italian artist is fascinated by their structure, and draws inspiration from the weft of these fabrics. This book includes her own stories of her acquisitions, and texts by Claire de Virieu, Guilia Putaturo, as all as celebrated Italian poet Patricia Cavalli. Her other publications include ‘La matassa primordiale', ‘Text on Textile’, ‘Women's Life’, and ‘Twenty-Two Places of the Soul’ to name a few.
580 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Diagrammatic writing
Isbn 9789083270616
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code
€ 10.00
Diagrammatic writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever) been subject to so highly focused and detailed a study. The text and graphical presentation are fully integrated, co-dependent, and mutually self-reflexive. This small book work should be of interest to writers, bibliographers, designers, conceptual artists, and anyone interested in the meta-language of diagrammatic thought in graphic form.
36 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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An atlas of agendas - Mapping the Power, Mapping the Commons
Isbn 9789083270654
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23014
€ 32.00
The Atlas of Agendas is a political, social and economic atlas: informing the public about socio-political power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons. The French research and design group Bureau d´Études has been producing maps of contemporary political, social and economic systems that allow people to inform, reposition and empower themselves. Revealing what normally remains invisible, often in the shape of large-sized banners, and contextualizing apparently separate elements within new frameworks, these visualizations of interests and relations re-articulate the dominant symbolic order and actualize existing structures that otherwise remain concealed and unknown. This large-size hardcover book, panoramic in scope and theoretically both profound and accessible, is the atlas for an emancipatory new citizenship that utilises the opportunities of info-graphics from the local to the global and back again.
270 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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2023 – one day, one day at a time (daily planner)
Isbn 9783947858484
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22736
€ 31.90
Beyond its organisational function as a daily planner for 2023, the Junge Akademie invites you to “think about time and its patterns as integral parts of all life on earth.” With contributions on the meaning, quality, and experience of time from members and alumni Rona Kobel, Michael Bies, Isabelle Dolezalek, Senthuran Varatharaj, Hermine Mitter, Racha Kirakosian, and Anna Lisa Ahlers, this planner also includes excerpts from ‘Mesmerising Mesh’ by Berlin and Seoul-based artists Haegue Yang. Yang’s intricate, geometric paper-cutting artworks explore shamanic practices, as well as the connection between matter and spirituality.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, German/English
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Notes on Bimbos and Bodybuilders
Isbn 9789492574237
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 22702
€ 26.90
In this book, artist Stan Van Rompaey attempts to define the essence of all things “camp” by researching the manifestations of camp past and present. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”, the author presents her manifesto in which she calls for a revolutionising of everyday life, overturning conventional, heteronormative categories and language systems, celebrating excesses, eliminating shame and guilt, and a rebellious hyperawareness. Included are a wide selection of rich images depicting “camp.” Awarded the Dirk Lauwaert award in 2021, this book was realised with the support from the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, Belgium.
350 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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CENTO+1 - Alberto Rosselli X Saporiti Italia
Isbn 9788822920157
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22728
€ 21.50
The present volume presents, 101 years after his birth, the work of Alberto Rosselli, one of the masters of contemporary design, through his enduring, prolific relationship with Saporiti Italia, the company founded in 1948 by Sergio Saporiti, where Rosselli held the position of art director from 1966 to 1976. The book and the exhibition take their name also from the presentation of 100 Jumbo chairs, one of the most original and interesting objects designed by Alberto Rosselli for Saporiti Italia, colored by ten international architectural firms, together with one original 1968 white Moby Dick chaise longue.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Italian Scraps 2
Isbn 9791254930175
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22716
€ 54.30
A new culinary adventure from North to South, once again on the theme of “Italian Scraps”. Valentina Raffaelli and Luca Boscardin take us on a journey that explores Italy through its recipes and typical products, this time focusing on what is produced by the land: herbs and vegetables. After the first Italian Scraps – dedicated to offal and what are commonly (anderroneously) considered meat scraps – this exploration enters the field of agriculture, looking at the current production and distribution system, again prompting us to ask questions: do vegetables really need to ‘look good’ in order to ‘taste good’? How much food do we waste? And how many products do we not even consider? Italian Scraps 2 is a cookbook that discusses sustainability, where each recipe seems to remind us that Italy is a giant vegetable garden, and that all you need to do is forage street markets and local produce to discover an immense wealth at your fingertips.
328 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Casual Design By Tom Garner
Isbn 9788886416214
Publisher Happy Books
Idea code 00031
€ 32.25
‘Casual Design’ is a collection of Tom Garner’s mid-career graphic design work, presented through a loosely mixed association of themes. It features his brash and boisterous designs from the fashion world, such as labels, prints, and other communication materials. Having worked with renown brands such as Diesel, Benetton, and Lee in his first job at ad agency Novaidea, he later joined Replay as an Art Director in 1990. Born in Boston in 1954, Garner won a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He was introduced to graphic design in the 80s by his mentor, designer and artist Ennio Chiggio, who also contributes a text in this book as well.
128 p, ills colour, 22 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Håndvaerk no.7 - Construction
Isbn 9788797229699
Publisher Håndvaerk
Idea code 22686
€ 34.95
With a clear and consistent emphasis on craftsmanship and materiality, the Håndværk bookazine portrays the living and changing practice of design and craft through in-depth interviews and portraits painted in both words and images. Issue no. 7 features interviews with architects, designers and active craftspeople from fields such as blacksmithing, bricklaying, carpentry and thatching. They all have a keen focus on the high carbon footprint of the construction industry and of the need to find solutions. The reduction of CO2 emissions is also a key issue when the bookazine takes the reader behind the scenes of the development of wall tiles with a high content of crushed, used bricks. As usual, this issue of the bookazine also includes stories about textiles, glassware, food and drink.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Vietnam War 6
Isbn 9784846532727
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 22708
€ 25.80
The sixth volume of this series adds to the already extensive documentation of the American military quagmire in South-East Asia that lasted almost two decades. Featuring the usual memorabilia, manga, and images from the Vietnam War, this instalment specifically showcases helmets customised by the soldiers who wore them, a pictorial history of the second year of the 173D Airbone Brigade, the Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, colour photographs of the U.S. Army Special Forces, U.S. Special Operations Command insignia, the M16 assault rifle, the gunship AC-47, hygiene on the battlefield, and heritage paintings from The National Guard, to name a few.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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