Donald Judd was closely connected to Switzerland throughout this life. From the early 1970s until his death, the American artist produced significant exhibitions there. Though his residences in Marfa and New York are legendary, less well-known is the hotel at Eichholteren which Judd transformed into an extraordinary residence on the banks of Lake Lucerne that tests the tensions and affinities between Swiss architecture and his own doctrines of function and design. Surveying the sculpture and objects Judd created and exhibited in Switzerland, as well as the interior of his residence.....
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Kandinsky, Malevich, or Mondrian. Many consider her the first trained artist to create abstract paintings. With Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods, we get to experience the arc of af Klint’s artistic investigation in her own words, drawings, and notebooks.Between 1906 and 1915, purportedly guided by a higher power, af Klint created 193 individual works that, in both scale.....
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art” by the New York Times, famed for her iconic Wheatfield A Confrontation (1982), for which she planted a two-acre wheatfield in Lower Manhattan on the Battery Park Landfill, in the.....
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This volume presents Halard's unique and lush photographic sensibility: old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal - of the stunning interiors of acclaimed designers, artists, and tastemakers. Includes inspiring images of the grand interiors, artists' studios, and architectural pilgrimage sites including Casa Barragán in Mexico, the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Giorgio Morandi's studio, Rick Owens's radical Paris apartment, Eileen Gray's recently restored modernist home on the French coast, Dries Van Noten's verdant garden and home, and the home and studio of Louise Bourgeois in New York, plus many more. A......
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A stunning and encyclopedic new monograph on Charlotte Perriand's career, exploring the interrelation of art, architecture, and design in the work of this legendary 20th century modernist, and her relationships and collaborations with her colleagues of the time including Léger, Miró, Picasso and Corbusier, among others. Accompanies the landmark exhibition that took place at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris in 2019-2020 on the 20th anniversary of Perriand's death. Her avant-garde vision was expressed in color, organic forms, and streamlined functionality - elements which are still at the heart of.....
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A comprehensive overview of more than two decades of the Karachi-born Huma Bhabha’s stunning artwork in sculpture, drawing, and photography. Bhabha is known for her moving and sometimes shocking sculptures depicting the human figure fashioned from materials ranging from clay, brick, and wood to Styrofoam, bronze, found objects, and construction materials.

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An expansive survey of the groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation. The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. Showcasing an array of.....
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Pattern-Thinking is a major reassessment of Fuller’s legacy in the context of design, examining his singular vision of new conceptual models for design and architecture, alongside his ideas on their potentially world-altering consequences. Drawing extensively on his archive and with over 300 images, the book follows Fuller’s explorations of geometry, language and intellectual property in their relation to design principles and pedagogy, organizing its survey of Fuller’s work through parallel conceptual threads rather than in a linear chronology of his career.

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The Dutch designer and polymath Jurriaan Schrofer (1926–1990) was one of the defining figures in European graphic design in the 1950s–70s. Working across all genres, from public relations brochures to interior design, and from magazines to advertising and alphabets, Schrofer is regarded as a pioneer in the field of photobooks and experimental typography. Hundreds of color images of the graphic and advertising work, typography design and experiments, and archival photos from throughout his career. Great!

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Fifty houses selected from around the world with ecologically sustainable and innovative architecture and design - all built within the past ten years. From a pavilion in Argentina to a forest house in New Zealand and an outdoor retreat near Oslo, highlighting architecture built to integrate into the natural environment. Each house is paired with wonderful photography and brief location information and basic schematics. Dreamy.

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We have launched a “Social-D Book Club" by mail program to hopefully help us all get through the temporary closures due to COVID-19 restrictions on public gathering - and to provide some relief and interesting books in your life.You can add funds to your Book Club balance at two levels: $50 and $100. Your Book Club balance can be used for any books that we have in stock, for books that we will be posting on Instagram, items listed here on this website - or when we reopen the bookstore.....
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An original concert flyer for Roy Loney (formerly of the Flamin' Groovies) and the Phantom Movers, plus Eye Protection with Black Flag Opening! At the Temple in San Francisco on February 1, 1980. Loney, a much-loved and longtime member of the Bay Area music scene, and a trail blazer in early garage rock during the psychedelic era, died in December of 2019.

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The 12th issue of the influential LA punk magazine, Slash, with The Screamers on the cover. Articles and features include local scene reports, a UK report, the Consumers, the Masque club, interviews with The Screamers, The Bags, The Offs, The Cramps, album and live reviews, and more.

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