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Slip on Tabi sneaker. Comfortable, stretchy, padded, with lightweight EVA sole. Comes with a complimentary pair of Tabi socks. If you're in between sizes, size down. Unisex.

The right accompaniment for your Tabi Footwear. Tabi ankle socks.

The right accompaniment for your Tabi Footwear. Tabi ankle socks.

The right accompaniment for your Tabi Footwear. Tabi knee-high socks.

The right accompaniment for your Tabi Footwear. Tabi knee-high socks.

Dexter Sinister (New York, NY) (David Reinfurt, Stuart Bailey) is a sometime bookshop and sometime maker of projects that explore the connectivities between print, object, design, and the ethics and impulses of making. More to the point, it's about the uses of language, its presentation, its value, manipulation, failures and glory.

The catalog made for the exhibition of the same name at The Queens Museum of Art (2010) (Queens, NY), organized by Larissa Harris. 272 pgs; 8.5" x 6".

In 1966, architect Robert Venturi published Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, a manifesto that became one of the twentieth century’s most important statements about architecture. Drawing on both vernacular and high-style sources, Venturi introduced new lessons from the buildings of architects who were well known, like Michelangelo and Alvar Aalto, and those whose work had then been forgotten, like Frank Furness and Edwin Lutyens. Arguing against the diagrammatic forms that dominated the field at that time, Venturi made a case instead for “the difficult whole.”

Fifty years later, this book offers a fresh analysis and thorough re-evaluation of Venturi’s landmark work and its legacy. Through a radical rereading of material from the archives of Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, the editors propose a credible alternative to contemporary architectural discourse, one that takes account of Venturi’s arguments and offers a way forward. Featuring essays, as well as close analyses of twenty-eight projects by Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, The Difficult Whole is sure to spark discussion—and inspiration—throughout the worlds of architecture and design.

(Text via University of Chicago Press)

The only comprehensive look at the legendary filmmaker's works. George Kuchar (1942-2011) was one of those directors that had an extraordinary memory for film history, the formalities, banalities, inanities, toiletries, specialties, and especially the ladies. He loved the ladies. He used that knowledge to make films that both subverted and celebrated the form.

A known eccentric, he was also a genius; the ways he approached storytelling and why he wanted to tell those stories, all came from a deeply personal place. Many-layered, and complex in a way that defies all expectations —even within an experimental genre—Kuchar's process could also be looked at as very straightforward. He had an idea, and set about making it happen with whatever means were available. 

This book contains detailed notes on his huge repertoire, but also the really interesting stuff, like personal letters, photos, recommendation letters (you WISH someone would write one like this for you), and much more. It's a great tribute to a man that touched so many students, filmmakers, and artists, but hasn't really been given his due until now.

From the duo behind Atelier E.B.:

At the intersection of art, design and social history, Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie: The Inventors of Tradition, now available in a second edition, is a subjective study of the history of the Scottish textiles industry since the 1930s. For decades, textiles were Scotland’s primary industry and export, and Scottish wool, cashmere, tweed, leather, lace and tartan have been famed throughout the world for even longer. Formatted like a scrapbook, this volume brings together design swatches, product shots, film stills, interviews and the archival materials of individuals and companies in the Scottish textiles trade. In response to this wealth of material, the artist Lucy McKenzie (born 1977) and designer Beca Lipscombe (born 1973) have produced a series of new works including clothing, furniture and accessories in collaborative partnership with Caerlee Mills, Begg Scotland, Hawick Cashmere, Laura Lees, Jannette Murray, Mackintosh, Muehlbauer and Steven Purvis.

Edited with text by Catriona Duffy, Lucy McEachan. Text by Nicholas Oddy, Linda Watson.

Text courtesy D.A.P.

It's one of those books that holds much more than you might think, as the compactness of it fools you. Great re-prints of images even on the newsprint pages. It makes you think a little of Ways of Seeing (John Berger). Made in conjunction with the exhibition New Gravity (Overduin & Co., September-October 2014), organized by Eli Diner and Olivian Cha. Essays by Heinrich von Kliest, Diner, Angie Keefer, Cha. Artists in the show: Frank Benson, Judith Hopf, Angie Keefer, Kitty Kraus, Mahony, Oliver Payne, Chadwick Rantanen.

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was an artist, poet, and gardner. His work often emphasized the uses of language, applied through the practices of typography, philosophy, and concrete poetry. Wild Hawthorne Press (his publishing imprint) and Little Sparta (the garden he created with Sue Finlay) are the most well-known of long-term works. His preference for neoclassical themes and references can feel exhilaratingly anachronistic, but his deeply physical sensibilities place the works directly in the temporal world. Finlay found a way to ask the "big questions"—what is nature? what is culture?—and in the asking, needed no answers.

All original writings by Alec Finlay, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Michael Charlesworth, Marjorie Perloff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Stephen Scobie. Made in conjunction with the exhibition Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Selection of Printed Works (2010-11) (Marfa Book Co. Gallery, Marfa, TX). Design by Flint Jamison.

Recycled denim jeans adorned with vintage doilies, lace, and appliqués. Each are one of a kind.

NB: Every item is one of a kind and reconstructed by hand using vintage and recycled materials. Imperfections and variation are to be expected and not taken as errors.

Recycled denim jeans adorned with vintage doilies, lace, and appliqués. Each are one of a kind.

NB: Every item is one of a kind and reconstructed by hand using vintage and recycled materials. Imperfections and variation are to be expected and not taken as errors.

Recycled denim jeans adorned with vintage doilies, lace, and appliqués. Each are one of a kind.

NB: Every item is one of a kind and reconstructed by hand using vintage and recycled materials. Imperfections and variation are to be expected and not taken as errors.

Recycled denim jeans adorned with vintage doilies, lace, and appliqués. Each are one of a kind.

NB: Every item is one of a kind and reconstructed by hand using vintage and recycled materials. Imperfections and variation are to be expected and not taken as errors.

Recycled denim jeans adorned with vintage doilies, lace, and appliqués. Each are one of a kind.

NB: Every item is one of a kind and reconstructed by hand using vintage and recycled materials. Imperfections and variation are to be expected and not taken as errors.

Established by the Parisian gallery castillo/corrales (FR) as a way to explore further the varied practices of the persons with whom they work, Paraguay Press's titles are published in small editions and often defy the expectation of what an artist book, monograph, or essay should be. The organizers work closely with the authors, sometimes in conjunction with exhibitions, sometimes as wholly separate entities that stand alone as works that take print forms.

Direct from Paraguay:
"...a co-operatively run, independent art publishing company, managed by the group of artists, writers and curators behind castillo/corrales and section 7 books...to reclaim control of the means of creation, production and distribution of the books in which their work appear...all depart from an understanding of the space of the book, considered not as a medium of documentation nor a vector of promotion, but as an act of translation and the extension of artistic, critical and curatorial thinking into a graphic, mobile, democratic and durable form."

It makes sense that Louis Luthi would use the framework of a fictionalized conversation between his protagonist and the figure of Ulises Carrion (Mexican writer, expatriated to The Netherlands) to examine the uses, meanings, and significance of the letter "a;" further down the rabbit-hole lies Warhol's a: a novel, as counterpoint. As a designer he is known for investigations of language and their influences on visual representations, but it's his deft zig-zagging, a kind of exuberance in figuring it all out that makes it work. Edition of 1000. Design by Will Holder.

Established by the Parisian gallery castillo/corrales (FR) as a way to explore further the varied practices of the persons with whom they work, Paraguay Press's titles are published in small editions and often defy the expectation of what an artist book, monograph, or essay should be. The organizers work closely with the authors, sometimes in conjunction with exhibitions, sometimes as wholly separate entities that stand alone as works that take print forms.

Direct from Paraguay:
"...a co-operatively run, independent art publishing company, managed by the group of artists, writers and curators behind castillo/corrales and section 7 books...to reclaim control of the means of creation, production and distribution of the books in which their work appear...all depart from an understanding of the space of the book, considered not as a medium of documentation nor a vector of promotion, but as an act of translation and the extension of artistic, critical and curatorial thinking into a graphic, mobile, democratic and durable form."

The first in an on-going series, The Social Life... is a publication of original texts by writers, artists, publishers, designers, and booksellers, focused on each's relationship to books. This fourth installment is by the critic and historian Avigail Moss. Each installment is comprised of a saddle-stitched signature; the entire 12-volume series will be hand-bound into a 192-page edition. For subscription information, please visit castillo/corrales. Edition of 1000. Design by Will Holder.

The Use is a book of writing by Chris Mann. It is also a translation of his ongoing web project THEUSE.INFO. Materially, it is as humble as a book can get. Exposed glue binding, newsprint, pocket sized—it almost apologizes in your hand. A life of work presented like a small phone book, good call.

The writing is undomesticated and has difficult pages, pages that sometime track their own difficulty. Take this one I picked almost at random:

“…how you talk to a machine (you know, whether fiction plus fiction counts as Nonfiction, (i mean artificial intelligence consists in expecting our experience of any industrial cognitive array to be different to our experience of, Law say, or, Economics, and Nobody understands law, nobody understands economics. this is called a Loop, or Copyright, dialup Disco. (i mean you Could call this, The Diagnosis (the powerpoint definition of acquisitive redundancy, all ambient delay and petty denIal, an amylnitrate alias outsource of(Success is the argument that it was Always better not to think, the Effect effect (with the witness as Output (one of those moody taxonomies the proud are so prOud of (, though as the witness is the last moment of nostAlgia .. its the Signal is the bitch. not even bOring ..”

As with most of Mann’s work, the sentences are made from language foraged partly from everyday American speech and partly from technical and academic corridors. The above excerpt gives you a good sense of how the words run a course between extremities and comes to sound like a mind-solving-problems, a mind most drawn to problems that cannot be solved. It has been said, “Chris Mann specializes in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, described by [himself] as ‘the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do.’”

The book comes with a set of postcards designed by Barbara Bloom. Edition of 1000.

(Text via Yale Union)

By the director Richard Maxwell of New York City Players (NY)*. A practical, and poetically written guide to theater—direction, actors and acting, process, stimulus, and philosophy in making works for stage. Compactly made and very fun to read, the physical manifestation of the book is kind of a concise representation of the prose style, and, in some ways, Maxwell's approach to stagecraft. A book for those skeptical about live performance, or for those that are interested in a deeper understanding of the "why" behind it all.**

*Maxwell and actor Bob Feldman performed a reading of the book at Stand Up Comedy, June 2015.
**There's a great review on Amazon about this book, it goes ":-)))").

Silk mashroo boxing style pant, with elastic waist and interior drawstring for versatile sizing. Oversized. Side pockets.

The fanciest tee you'll ever wear. In luxe silk mashroo, handkerchief hem, nipped in at the waist. 

A loose beanie of sorts, lightweight and embroidered and studded with sequins.

Silk mashroo pleated trousers, with foldover waist. The details are embroidered starts in silk stitching. Oversized. Side pockets.

Silk cardigan with three button closure, fringed bead trim. Feels more like an easy blazer. Surprisingly versatile. 

Incredibly easy to wear, long slip skirt with side zip. In luxe silk mashroo.

A radical reimagining of the retro T80 style from Timex. The latest and greatest collaboration between Maison Margiela and Timex, these classic digital watches are developed as rings, and avant-garde take for a new era. The ring/watch itself features a stainless steel case and expansion band and mineral lens/mirrored mask that displays a sequence of digits from 0-23, with '6' encircled as a nod to the MM6 signature. Water resistant to 30m. Unusual, avant-garde, unisex.

Measurements
S/M = 16.5 mm diameter; 51.9 mm circumference (with stretch)
M/L = 19.8 mm diameter; 62.1 mm circumference (with stretch)

The gift of time, both nostalgic and new, radically re-engineered through the retro T80 watch. The latest and greatest collaboration between Maison Margiela and Timex, these classic digital watches are re-issued with updates for a new era. The watch itself features a stainless steel case and bracelet, Indiglo backlight, and chronograph/alarm/month/day/date displays. Equipped with a mineral lens/mirrored mask displaying a sequence of digits from 0-23, with '6' encircled as a nod to the MM6 numerical signature. Water resistant to 30m. 34mm case; 18mm lug. This gift set also includes an extra stainless steel bracelet, which can be worn alone or in tandem with the watch. Great value and memories. Unisex.

Today we should be thinking about reflects on the first six seasons of The Artist’s Institute, which took place between 2010 and 2013, and covered artists Robert Filliou, Jo Baer, Jimmie Durham, Rosemarie Trockel, Haim Steinbach and Thomas Bayrle. Narrated by Anthony Huberman, it documents the legacies and contemporary conversations that surround these artists today.

Text courtesy The Artist's Institute.

The geometry of this bag is what makes it interesting; the size is what makes it dramatic. Tote bags with real trim and this attention to detail in construction are almost impossible to find. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 30" h x 24.5" w; 14" handle drop.

The geometry of this bag is what makes it interesting; the size is what makes it dramatic. Tote bags with real trim and this attention to detail in construction are almost impossible to find. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 30" h x 24.5" w; 14" handle drop.

A good every day tote is as fun to wear as it is useful, as Toile's Matta bag embodies in spades. Made from organic cotton canvas with knit trim around the handle, the bag is fully biodegradable, made in limited quantities. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w x 3" d; 8" handle drop.

A good every day tote is as fun to wear as it is useful, as Toile's Matta bag embodies in spades. Made from organic cotton canvas with knit trim around the handle, the bag is fully biodegradable, made in limited quantities. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w x 3" d; 8" handle drop.

A good every day tote is as fun to wear as it is useful, as Toile's Matta bag embodies in spades. Made from organic, waxed cotton canvas with knit trim around the handle, the bag is fully biodegradable, made in limited quantities. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w x 3" d; 8" handle drop.

The geometry of this bag is what makes it interesting; the usefulness and adorability are what make it essential. Tote bags with real trim and this attention to detail in construction are almost impossible to find. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w; 10" handle drop.

The geometry of this bag is what makes it interesting; the usefulness and adorability are what make it essential. Tote bags with real trim and this attention to detail in construction are almost impossible to find. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w; 10" handle drop.

The geometry of this bag is what makes it interesting; the usefulness and adorability are what make it essential. Tote bags with real trim and this attention to detail in construction are almost impossible to find. Elevating a utilitarian material with its simple, poetic design. 20" h x 13" w; 10" handle drop.

A witty take on the dusty old court heels from yore, only with an exaggerated square toe and beautifully balanced, sculpted heel. Woven leather as real craft. Unusual, special look and shape to these. 2.5" heel.

"Less, but better"—Dieter Rams

The following text is by Tsatsas, on this special, special project:

A collaboration with one of today’s most important product designers, TSATSAS presents the model 931, a bag designed by Dieter Rams.

Dieter Rams, born in 1932 in Wiesbaden/Germany, is considered one of the most influential industrial designers of the past decades. His products for the companies Braun and Vitsoe inspire creatives around the globe to this day. The “Ten principles for good design,” which he formulated from the mid-1970s onwards, pointed even then to the challenges design in particular and our society as a whole are facing today more than ever.

Having worked in the field of product design for more than 40 years, Dieter Rams is still highly topical. With missionary zeal, he continues to claim to this day that the correct understanding of design can help create a better world.

In 1963 Dieter Rams designed a handbag made of leather for his wife Ingeborg, whom he met in 1955 when she was working for Braun as a photographer. It was while working for Braun himself, where he was chief designer from 1961 until 1995, that Rams engaged more strongly with the material leather, collaborating with leather crafting workshops in Offenbach/Main for the company’s shaver cases. And it was there that he had the idea of surprising his wife with a leather bag, yet it remained a one-off.

55 years later, TSATSAS is proud to introduce this very bag to the market. The label’s design philosophy – to create timeless bags and accessories with a clear design language that give rise to lasting shapes without any aesthetic expiry date – was easy to reconcile with Rams’ expectations of a product.

So reduced and simultaneously concise that it unavoidably calls to mind Rams products, 931 is as up-to-date today as it was in 1963 and effortlessly bridges five decades of design history.

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The highest quality shrunken lamb nappa, with pacific blue nappa lining. Hand-held or with removable, adjustable shoulder strap. Two distinct sections divided by a middle compartment closed with a snap. One large zip close pocket, two additional compartments, and a small mirror with with leather case. Magnetic top closure. Individual, gold-embossed serial number. 9.65" w x 5.9" h x 2.75" d.

"Less, but better"—Dieter Rams

The following text is by Tsatsas, on this special, special project:

A collaboration with one of today’s most important product designers, TSATSAS presents the model 931, a bag designed by Dieter Rams.

Dieter Rams, born in 1932 in Wiesbaden/Germany, is considered one of the most influential industrial designers of the past decades. His products for the companies Braun and Vitsoe inspire creatives around the globe to this day. The “Ten principles for good design,” which he formulated from the mid-1970s onwards, pointed even then to the challenges design in particular and our society as a whole are facing today more than ever.

Having worked in the field of product design for more than 40 years, Dieter Rams is still highly topical. With missionary zeal, he continues to claim to this day that the correct understanding of design can help create a better world.

In 1963 Dieter Rams designed a handbag made of leather for his wife Ingeborg, whom he met in 1955 when she was working for Braun as a photographer. It was while working for Braun himself, where he was chief designer from 1961 until 1995, that Rams engaged more strongly with the material leather, collaborating with leather crafting workshops in Offenbach/Main for the company’s shaver cases. And it was there that he had the idea of surprising his wife with a leather bag, yet it remained a one-off.

55 years later, TSATSAS is proud to introduce this very bag to the market. The label’s design philosophy – to create timeless bags and accessories with a clear design language that give rise to lasting shapes without any aesthetic expiry date – was easy to reconcile with Rams’ expectations of a product.

So reduced and simultaneously concise that it unavoidably calls to mind Rams products, 931 is as up-to-date today as it was in 1963 and effortlessly bridges five decades of design history.

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The highest quality shrunken lamb nappa, with pacific blue nappa lining. Hand-held or with removable, adjustable shoulder strap. Two distinct sections divided by a middle compartment closed with a snap. One large zip close pocket, two additional compartments, and a small mirror with with leather case. Magnetic top closure. Individual, gold-embossed serial number. 9.65" w x 5.9" h x 2.75" d.

The classic UGG gets a remake by artist Tschabalala Self, inspired by her sculpture Loveseat prototype (2020). Butt seams are added to this one, a repeater worth repeating (if you already own a pair of the classics).

NB: These run large. Half sizes, please size down.

The classic UGG gets a remake by artist Tschabalala Self, inspired by her sculpture Loveseat prototype (2020). Butt seams are added to this one, a repeater worth repeating (if you already own a pair of the classics).

NB: These run large. Half sizes, please size down.

Telfar’s iconic unisex shopping bag is an everyday bag for everyone. Adapting the design with a plush Telfar logo, exposed shearling trim, two cross-body straps, and a magnetic snap closure, it’s made from UGG's signature sheepskin and suede with an interior zip pocket and 100% cotton twill lining for a soft feel inside and out.

Measurements:
19.25" w x 14.75" h x 7" d; drop 21"

Telfar’s iconic unisex shopping bag is an everyday bag for everyone. Adapting the design with a plush Telfar logo, exposed shearling trim, two cross-body straps, and a magnetic snap closure, it’s made from UGG's signature sheepskin and suede with an interior zip pocket and 100% cotton twill lining for a soft feel inside and out.

Measurements:
19.25" w x 14.75" h x 7" d; drop 21"

Telfar’s iconic unisex shopping bag is an everyday bag for everyone. Adapting the design with a plush Telfar logo, exposed shearling trim, two cross-body straps, and a magnetic snap closure, it’s made from UGG's signature sheepskin and suede with an interior zip pocket and 100% cotton twill lining for a soft feel inside and out.

Measurements:
15" w x 10.75" h x 5" d; drop 21"

Telfar’s iconic unisex shopping bag is an everyday bag for everyone. Adapting the design with a plush Telfar logo, exposed shearling trim, two cross-body straps, and a magnetic snap closure, it’s made from UGG's signature sheepskin and denim with an interior zip pocket and 100% cotton twill lining for a soft feel inside and out.

Measurements:
16" w x 12.5" h x 4" d

Telfar’s iconic unisex shopping bag is an everyday bag for everyone. Adapting the design with a plush Telfar logo, exposed shearling trim, two cross-body straps, and a magnetic snap closure, it’s made from UGG's signature sheepskin and suede with 100% cotton twill lining for a soft feel inside and out.

Measurements:
6.25" w x 4.75" h x 3.25" d; drop 21"

Telfar’s iconic unisex shopping bag is an everyday bag for everyone. Adapting the design with a plush Telfar logo, exposed shearling trim, two cross-body straps, and a magnetic snap closure, it’s made from UGG's signature sheepskin and denim with 100% cotton twill lining for a soft feel inside and out.

This special series from Vada is from their Tokio, Texas eyewear collection, celebrating juxtapositions of geometry, jazz, feminine and masculine. The Kauboi group is a chunky square frame destined to be designated a Vada future classic. Inspired by nudie suits from country music counterculture. The series features all 18k gold-tone details: 5-barrel rivet hinges, double wing-tip temples, and engraving. The arms include 18k gold rivets designed to hold Vada's gold chain retainers, making these eyewear and jewelry at once. Handmade in Japan in micro-batches with organic cellulose acetate. Unisex.

Non-polarized lenses with 100% UVA/UVB protection and backside anti-reflective coating.

Measurements (standard fit) 
Width: 51mm
Height: 39mm
Bridge: 21mm
Temple: 140mm

This special series from Vada is from their Tokio, Texas eyewear collection, celebrating juxtapositions of geometry, jazz, feminine and masculine. The Siren group is named for the ancient Greek vessel from Odysseus's victorious voyage. The series features all 18k gold-tone details: 5-barrel rivet hinges, double wing-tip temples, and engraving. The arms include 18k gold rivets designed to hold Vada's gold chain retainers, making these eyewear and jewelry at once. Handmade in Japan in micro-batches with organic cellulose acetate. Unisex.

Non-polarized lenses with 100% UVA/UVB protection and backside anti-reflective coating.

Measurements (standard fit) 
Width: 50mm
Height: 40mm
Bridge: 21.5mm
Temple: 140mm