Contemporary Landscape From the Horizon of Postmodern Design
Published by National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1985, 166 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 29 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €70

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Contemporary Landscape From the Horizon of Postmodern Design, a survey of postmodern design held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1985.

Featuring the work of Aldo Rossi, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Arata Isozaki, Ettore Sottsass, Frank Gehry, Fumihiko Maki, Mario Botta, Masanori Umeda, Matteo Thun, Michael Graves, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Peter Shire, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Ron Arad, Daniel Weil, Shiro Kuramata.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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ENCENS NO. 46
FALL/WINTER 2021
Published by Encens, Paris, 2021, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 26.5 cm, English
Price: €24

Published twice a year since 2002, Encens is focused on fashion as artform from the perspective of designers rather than trends. The magazine investigate new forms of dressing from past to present with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and vintage, and dynamic layout. This issue features Hed Mayner, Anne-Marie Beretta, Claudia Skoda, David Bowie, Lutz Huelle, Stephanie Danan, Justin Kern, Dal Chodha, Christopher Andrews and Giorgio Armani

#2021 #encens #fashion #hedmayner
Shit For Brains
Lutz Bacher
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2015, 404 pages (b/w ill.), 22.7 × 30.3 cm, English
Price: €55 (Temporarily out of stock)

Lutz Bacher wrote this novel in August 2010 in California. Designed by Lutz Bacher with consulting and production by HIT.

#2015 #galeriebuchholz #hit #lutzbacher
No Dandy, No Fun:
Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
Hans-Christian Dany, Valérie Knoll
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2023, 232 pages (duotone ill.), 11.5 × 18 cm, English
Price: €18

Published following the eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern in 2020–2021. A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.

With Kai Althoff, Lutz Bacher, Kévin Blinderman / Pierre-Alexandre Mateos / Charles Teyssou, Marcel Broodthaers, Ursula Böckler, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Hanne Darboven, Stephan Dillemuth, Victoire Douniama, Lukas Duwenhögger, Cerith Wyn Evans, Sylvie Fleury, Andrea Fraser, Sophie Gogl, Gogo Graham, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, David Hammons, Birgit Jürgenssen, K Foundation, John Kelsey, Michael Krebber, Miriam Laura Leonardi, David Lieske, Mathieu Malouf, Ulrike Ottinger, Mathias Poledna, Raymond Roussel, Heji Shin, Reena Spaulings, Sturtevant, Bernadette Van-Huy, James McNeill Whistler, Virginia Woolf.

Designed by HIT.

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Blocking Templates
Christopher Williams
Published by Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, 2023, 78 pages, spiral bound (colour & b/w ill.), 26.5 × 21 cm, English / German
Price: €35 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Heimarbeit. Adapted for use. IKEA Küchen Ensemble by Christopher Williams at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, 16 November, 2023–27 January, 2024.

As stated in the brochure for the exhibition: “This IKEA Küchen ensemble, this set, this arrangement of props. Organized for the production of conventional forms. These forms contribute to a typological study of the photographic image. Frontal, overhead, 3/4 shots.The building blocks.”

#2023 #christopherwilliams
The Indirect Source of Illumination, The Best Mode Of Consultancy :
An Allegorical Light
Noah Barker
Published by Fanta-MLN, Milan & Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, 2023, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 14.5 cm, English
Price: €14

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition of the work lux principum by Noah Barker at Aedicula Raffaella Cortese, Albisola Superiore (SV), Italy, 2023. A stainless-steel light supplemented with an annotated design manual, the work aimed to provide advice or guidance for a potential leader in the medieval genre of “mirror for princes”. In substituting the furnishing of reflection for illumination, the light accounts for political structure in western democracies today. Printed in an edition of 200.

#2023 #noahbarker