Hermès Pop Up
Text by Stéphane Foekinos


Every year, the iconic luxury brand Hermès chooses a new theme to celebrate its creative direction for the upcoming year. This practice began in 1987, marking the brand's 150th anniversary, and has since become a beloved tradition―a way to combine the house's proud, storied heritage with its creative vision for the future.

Hermès' Year Theme for 2018 was "Let's Play," and the brand  celebrated in style with this deluxe pop-up book.

Featuring a selection of 14 of the house's iconic square scarf designs, both old and more recent, this book brings the designs alive with exhilarating ingenuity. Delicate paper constructions bring out the depth and volume within the scarf designs; zebras rear up, delicately arching trees grow from the page and painterly strokes detach themselves from the paper surface. This is the Hermès carré as you've never seen it before.

For Hermès,

a brand associated with the highest quality luxury materials and design, "play is movement, freedom, imagination, fantasy, seduction, lightness." Impeccably produced, Hermès Pop Up gives readers the chance to play around in the brand's archives.

Hardcover | 8.5 x 8.5” | 26 pgs










Explicit Snow Globe


An irreverent snow globe to celebrate any time of year. 
4 inch glass snow globe with plastic base. 

Pure Products USA | 4 x 3 x 6 in.

Ed Ruscha
On The Road: An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac


SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA 



In 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120-foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in 20 days his road trips across the United States and Mexico. On the Road was finally published in 1957, and Kerouac was immediately acknowledged as the voice of the Beat Generation.

For almost 50 years, Ed Ruscha has recorded the evolving emblems of American life in the form of phrases and sentences, Hollywood logos, gas stations and archetypal landscapes. During the 1960s, he created a series of cheaply printed photographic books which can be seen in part as deadpan meditations on the romantic vision of the road epitomized by the Beats. In Royal Road Test (1967), he brought the word and the road together in a conceptual prank by documenting himself dropping a vintage typewriter from a speeding Buick.

In 2010 Ruscha turned his attention to On the Road, and has produced his own limited-edition version of Kerouac's Beat bible. Ruscha designed the book, illustrating Kerouac's text with 55 tipped-in photographs that the artist has either taken himself, commissioned from other photographers or selected from found images to refer closely to the details and impressions that the author describes, from car parts to jazz instruments, from sandwich stacks to tire burns on a desert road. The text is printed in letterpress on 220g Hahnemühle paper and every one of the 55 photo-plates is blind-embossed and tipped in by hand to create an exquisite and original edition. 

Steidl
The leather-bound book comprises 228 pages, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 350 and presented in a slipcase.













Man Ray
Cadeau (Gift)
1921/1974


$1,200

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Numbered copies with title and signature printed on the handle, produced by Arturo Schwarz, Milan.

Iron, 17 x 10 x 10 cm / 6 3/4 x 4 x 4 in, with 14 copper nails.

The attached certificate is signed and numbered by hand.

The prototype for this edition was made in 1921, but lost.

The artist authorized and signed this edition in 1974.

Edition: 5000 





Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual, Limited Edition
Edited by Michael Bullock. Text by Jonathan David Katz, Evan Moffitt, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ted Stansfield.

$700


This limited edition of 50 copies is signed and numbered by Peter Berlin and comes with a print.

Gelatin silver print | 8 x 5.2” inches.

The photograph has been printed in 2019 in a limited edition of 50 copies plus 6 Artist Proofs.

DAMIANI
Hardcover | 9 x 12” |
208 pgs