Jason Nocito and Daniel Shea – Untitled

 

 

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Softcover, 48 pages
28 x 24cm
Published by Ordinary Books, 2015

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Jason Nocito and Daniel Shea released a joint photo zine in the fall, designed by Camilla Venturini and published by Ordinary Books in a highly limited run of 500 copies. The 48-page volume consists of unattributed images of downtown Los Angeles and New York, leaving the viewer to guess who shot what. If you enjoy the blissfully laid-back style of either of these artists, treat yourself to a copy now before they're all gone.

—Available from Antenne Books

Eileen Gray by Caroline Constant

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Hardcover, 21 x 21cm
256 pages, 222 illustrations
Published by Phaidon

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"A contemporary of Pierre Chareau and Charlotte Perriand, Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is known primarily for her highly original furniture and interior design but also realized nine buildings in her lifetime and amassed an archive of more than 45 architectural projects. This monograph by Caroline Constant is the first in-depth study of Gray’s entire career, providing a generously illustrated analysis of her early designs as well as her work as an architect beginning in 1926. It draws on a wealth of archival material, plans, drawings, and photographs – including many of Gray’s own – to place her in the context of contemporary movements in design and architecture as well as twentieth-century social and cultural history."

—Available from The Line

Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler

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Softcover, 655 pages
21 x 28cm
Published by JRP Ringier, 2015

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"Artist Tony Oursler has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience, and technology. For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry, and – most intriguingly – a family history. One of the collection’s many digressions is the friendship between the artist’s grandfather Charles Fulton Oursler – a famous early 20th-century author and publisher – and magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, their joint campaign against fraudulent mediums, and a historic interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, who, beyond his Sherlock Holmes series, was an important advocate for spiritualism and the paranormal.

This publication features up to 2,500 objects from Oursler’s collection, including photographs, prints, historic manuscripts, rare books, letters, and objects. Additional topics include stage magic, thought photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnotism, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory, and UFOs. Linking these wide-ranging materials is Oursler’s underlying interest in belief systems and human nature – the suspension of disbelief, or perhaps just our propensity to believe.”

—Available from JRP Ringier

Black Friday Sale: 50% Off

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November 27 – 30, 2015

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Starting today and running until the end of the day on Monday, we're having a small Black Friday sale on all publications and accessories, as well as some deadstock footwear we recently found hidden away. Pick up items from Viberg, Haco Schuh, Yuketen, Whitehouse Cox, Sassafras and Tricker's at 50% off while stocks last.

—Inventory Black Friday Sale

Online Feature: Visiting IDEA Books

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In spite of locations at Dover Street Market in London and New York, and the Comme des Garçons Trading Museum in Paris, IDEA Books is perhaps best known for its Instagram. With a growing following online, the London-based company has done an exceptional job with product and delivery to capture a modern audience. On a recent trip to London, Chris Black visited co-founder David Owen to speak about their growth, and have a look inside their modest studio.

—Online Feature: Visiting IDEA Books

William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest

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Ten-volume set
1328 pages, 31.5 x 32 cm
Hardback, clothbound in slipcase
Published by Steidl, 2015

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"Following the publication of Chromes in 2011 and Los Alamos Revisited in 2012, the reassessment of Eggleston’s career continues with the publication of The Democratic Forest, his most ambitious project. This ten-volume set containing more than a thousand photographs is drawn from a body of twelve thousand pictures made by Eggleston in the 1980s."

—Available from Steidl

In Stock: Apartamento Issue 16

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—01. Available now.

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The 16th edition of Apartamento has just been released and the standout feature takes a look at Donald Judd’s Texas ranch by way of his children Flavin and Rainer, as well as a series of his everyday life objects. Other high points of a particularly artist centric issue involve articles about Matt Connors, Gary Panter, Arielle Holmes and Pablo Picasso's studio. Copies of the excellent interiors magazine are now available from stockists around the world, including our own online store.

—Apartamento
—Available from Inventory

Inventory Magazine Issue 13 – FW15

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—01. Agnès B. by Quentin de Briey.

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The cover of our Fall-Winter ’15 issue features French designer Agnès B., photographed by Quentin de Briey. The thirteenth edition of Inventory also includes Shawn Stussy, Ian Wallace and Douglas Coupland, LQQK Studio, Jim Walrod, Warehouse and Misha Hollenbach; a selection of seasonal fashion stories; and contributions by Hiroki Nakamura, Sarah Soquel Morhaim, Peter Bellamy and Bruno Staub. Copies are now available from our online store, and will start to arrive at stockists around the world over the course of the next week or so.

—Available from Inventory