
Bosnian War Posters presents a powerful visual history of the Bosnian War (1992–1995) through political posters, archival images, and contemporary photographs. Collected across Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, these graphics capture lived experiences of conflict, nationalism, and propaganda.

Tek Hod is a contemporary photographic response to an ancient tradition: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. Documenting a legacy of romanticism on one hand and industrialisation on the other, David Ellison's photo series speaks to the complexity of the landscape's tradition via costume and archive as well as the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

In 1973, photographer David Bailey did all his major fashion shoots for British Vogue with actress and, at that time, occasional model, Anjelica Huston. This irresistible volume chronicles the duo's fiery photographic collaboration.

Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet is a legend – one of the most influential and coveted works in the history of the photobook. Brodovitch’s aim was to capture dance in the spontaneous, living present. Free of all artistic preconceptions and working with a sense of existential imperative, he immersed himself over a span of five years in the final performances of the Ballets Russes on tour in America. In Ballet, Brodovitch engaged the image and the book form in ways that continue to fascinate and his methods of printing played an equally decisive role in his experiment.

A collection of black and white photographic portraits by Laon Maybanke presenting the many expressions, gestures and faces of humanity.
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VILE magazine was published between 1974 and 1983 by the mail artists Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione. The inside contents of VILE featured a wide array of texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, detourned mass media advertisements as well as art works from mail artists in different countries.

This is the second issue of Heatwave – a British libertarian socialist and Situationist publication from the 1960s.

Gucci by Gucci bringing together the archive of the loved House – in the form of bags, clothes, accessories, and a dazzling cache of documentary photographsthe history of the Florentine family-owned saddler that has imprinted its name on the fashion consciousness. Both a history of the company and a glorious visual exploration of its far-reaching influence, the book is a treat for the collector and the fan.

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An exhibition catalogue of works from the Bauhaus housed at the Busch Reisinger Musuem Collection.

Over the past decade, the fashion industry has witnessed a renaissance of the classic khakis that have been the casual pant of choice of such prominent historical figures as James Dean, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, and Picasso. Produced in conjunction with Dockers "RM" Khakis, Khaki: Cut from the Original Cloth is a compilation of over 100 historical and contemporary images, creating a veritable photographic history of khakis. Included in this fascinating fashion retrospective are Hollywood film stills, historical snapshots, and recent fashion and celebrity images by such acclaimed photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Peter Beard, Duane Michals, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, and more.

When Maxime Gaillard opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale, his restaurant was soon discovered by the star socialite of the moment, Irma de Montigny, who launched it as a center of Parisian nightlife. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture and design, Maxim's remains faithful to this period and continues to be a symbol of Parisian luxury life. In this book, Jean-Pascal Hesse tells us the fascinating story of this legendary place along with also the restaurant most successful recipes, with accompanying illustrations.

Examining some of the many parallels between visual art, dance and music in the 20th century, this issue of Art & Design brings together an enormous diversity of material: from the pure saturated colours and blue-black voids of Anish Kapoor's art, to the choreographic notations of Merce Cunningham; to the musical scores and edible drawings of John Cage.

A book by London-based fashion photographer Valerie Phillips, in which she documents Swedish artist, photographer, model and online celebrity Arvida Byström, known for her colourful images, including countless self-portraits shared though social media and blogs.


The year 2000 marked the issue 200 and year 20 for i-D Magazine. Blending fashion and social documentation, early issues of i-D (now major collector's items) were presented as 40 pages stapled together. 'Smile i-D' incorporates a single spread from each issue of the magazine up until then.

Wim Wenders is a promimet film maker known for his role in the New German Cinema Movement. He has directed Paris, Texas, The State of Things, Wings of Desire, Pina and more. His visually distinctive films that often explore themes of identity, displacement, and the nature of reality.

Documenta 6 complete catalogue including: Volume I painting / plastic environment / performance; Volume II photography / film / video; Volume III hand drawings / utopian design / books. Featuring the work of almost every important artist ever, including Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Altman, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Joseph Beuys, Brassaï, Fellini, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, Mapplethorpe and so many more.

Featuring photographs by Irving Penn, David Bailey, Bruce Bernard, Dorothy Bohm, Mark Boxer, David Hockney, Sue Davies, Bill Brandt, Chris Killip and more.

Trinity by British artist Oliver Raymond Barker explores the complex histories embedded in the fabric of the land and engages with narratives around spirituality, protest and control.

The world's most talented photographers and prestigious models grace the pages of this classic volume that celebrates Yves Saint Laurent's illustrious career, reprinted in a smaller format on the eve of his fortieth anniversary. From pret-a-porter to haute couture, from the runway to the studio to the earth's most exotic settings, images from nearly fifty photographers, including Richard Avedon, Horst, Peter Lindbergh, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Snowdon, and Bruce Weber bring YSL's renowned creations to glorious life.

This book explores a period of British design history when a new generation of designers crossde boundaries between architecture, interiors, product design, craft, and fashion to redefining avant-garde creativity.

Looks is the definitive guide to the looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many fashion designers today.

Made in the UK: The Music of Attitude, 1977–1983 documents a time when British music pushed every boundary. Beckman began her career working for Melody Maker, one of London’s premier weekly music papers. She soon had extraordinary access to the musicians topping the UK charts—icons of an era when music had an agenda—including The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Undertones, The Specials, The Beat, The Police.

Work of David Adjaye published in conjuction with an exhibition organised by the Art Institute of Chicago and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

In the wake of the Second World War, aiming to occupy the children rampaging streets and parks, the City of Amsterdam founded Jongensland, a space where boys (and the occasional, officially disallowed girl) could play, build, create, and destroy, largely without supervision. Located on an island accessible only by rowboat, Jongensland grew into a sprawling settlement built experimentally from scrap materials by its young inhabitants. Here, children would cook food, raise animals, build fires, and trade with each other. Without adult intervention, they relied on shared resourcefulness and collaborative ingenuity. This book presents Schulz-Dornburg’s largely unseen series alongside an extended alongside an extended essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson reflecting on the architectural themes and lessons Jongensland continues to offer.

A collection of Cecil Beaton's fashion photographs shot throughout his career.
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Through exquisite reproductions presented in a unique accordion fold-out format, Diane Arbus: The Libraries showcases books and other objects from the artist’s collection as displayed in the international museum retrospective, Diane Arbus: Revelations.

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A comprehensive exploration of the work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi, presenting images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works, presenting the full breadth of Muholi's photographic and activist practice like never before.

Sifting through the prosthetic memory of our contemporary time, the ADDPM Program aims to scale a collective human legacy. The book becomes encyclopedia on the cultural and cognitive flattening of human networked recollections.

Marching To The Freedom Dream presents American photojournalist Dan Budnik’s significant body of work documenting three seminal marches of the civil rights movement. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and precedes the 50th anniversaries of the Selma-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act in 2015. A foreword to the book is written by prolific civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa began this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I Carry Her photo with Me is a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.

Composed of found images and videos, the work of Arthur Jafa revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. This essential overview presents Jafa's best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death and its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars.

In the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh invented a new way of photographing and interpreting fashion. Considered as one of the great masters of black and white photography, he is best known for his brilliantly posed images of women of stiking beauty. Using fashion photography as the key to his era, Lindbergh creates scenes which are immediately recognisable and forceful in their modernity. This book celebrates the essential and fruitful relationship between Lindbergh's photographs and their primary destination, the magazine page, presenting a selection of his work from 1996-1998 as it appeared in publications such as "Vogue", "W Magazine" and the "New Yorker".

Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. The fourth issue of volume one is "Marshall McLuhan Issue," designed by Quentin Fiore. Known as a 3D multimedia magazine, this issue explores media theory, famously packaged in a white box with black/red geometric designs, featuring recordings, texts, and advertisements

A photographic exploration of the confluence of art, fashion and fetish in the cult of high heels swooping down fashion show runways and city streets. With photographic contributions by Glen Luchford, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martin Parr, Guy Bourdin, Juergen Teller, Araki, Bruce Gilden, Peter Hujar, et al.

A collection of exclusive, behind-the-scenes and fittings images of Pieter Mulier’s shows at Alaïa. Captured through Seklaoui’s unfiltered photography, this limited-edition book explores the intensity of the crucial moments leading up to a collection presentation, revealing the Maison’s creative process in its purest form. Born from the intimate collaboration between Pieter Mulier and Anthony Seklaoui, Alaïa by Seklaoui was built upon their shared obsession with the idea of raw beauty.
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Obrist's landmark project 'do it', this publication presents the history of this ambitious enterprise and gives new impetus to its future. It includes an archive of artists' instructions, essays contextualizing Do It, documentation from the history of the exhibition and instructions by 200 artists from all over the world selected by Obrist,
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Only recently has fashion photography been accurately seen as an important medium within contemporary visual culture. Its power, in defining itself as a means of communication, is to record, or even determine today's lifestyle. Italian Eyes not only shines a much-deserved light on Italians who have made photographic history, but also highlights an Italian style that goes beyond fashion, thus offering a repertoire of images that reconstruct the changes in fashion and the evolution of society from the end of World War II to the present.

The script of Under the Skin includes Glazer’s never-before-published director’s statement, an original essay by Hari Nef, and writing and set photography by Niall O’Brien.

A collection of Bill Brandt's portraits of actors, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists of all kinds.

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Catalogue published on the occassion of the 2002 German museum exhibition "For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants, and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress" by African-American artist Kara Walker.

A charming, historically-important, and well-produced book from 1975 that highlights the work of about 50 denim artists.

Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

Emerges from the innovative minds of Theseus Chan, Werk, and Comme Des Garçons. This edition, known for its distinctive torched flambé cover, marks a unique chapter in the collaboration between the avant-garde fashion label and its global guerrillastores. The magazine documents the revolutionary retail concept by Comme des Garçons, which allowed partners worldwide to open a store, manage expenses, and offer CDG merchandise on a sale or return basis for one year.

A visual survey of various cars.

First monograph examining the work of Proctor and Matthews Architects
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It’s Urgent! is a project curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, which began in 2019 in Denmark. During the elections for the European Parliament in 2019, artists were invited to think about the present and the future with an exhibition of posters on billboards in the city of Copenhagen. The idea then was to make the artists’ works available to the public, inserting them into public life and the community.

Dressed to Kill is an interesting look at the ways in which clothing, and its symbol as a from of status and power, has developed over time. Looking at the influences of sexuality and gender, this book presents how fashion is a means of looking at ourselves and the society.
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This book an art project and book by British artist Suzanne Treister (2018–2019). It explores speculative narratives, mapping journeys from a survivor persona through a "black hole spacetime" (BHST) framework, often using diagrams, drawings, and, in this case, a book format that connects different conceptual, often fictional, personas and spaces.
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Fashion: Photography of the Nineties is a compilation of over two hundred images culled from the worlds of art and fashion. A chronicle of the fashion iconography of the Nineties, it places images familiar from magazines and style journals alongside their wilder, darker counterparts. In these photographs the body and its gestures report on the defining characteristics of a decade. Featuring work from Juergen Teller, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Wolfgang Tillmans, Corinne Day, Nick Knight, Araki, Nan Goldin and more.

The book covers the foundational years of the Ferus Gallery, showcasing artists like Wallace Berman, John Altoon, Edward Kienholz, and Larry Bell. Through photographs and textual contributions, this book documents the Southern California art scene of that era.

David Hicks explores al aspects of interior decoration and design in the home.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 17: Sensual Flowers.

A mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society by architect Richard Rogers

In 1969, Winogrand documented a number of public events. The photographs depict our emerging dependence on the media as well as how the media changes and sometimes even creates the event itself.


Since the early 1980s, Grace Lau has explored sexuality, gender identity, and BDSM subcultures through photography. This book traces her work from early male nudes to immersive studies of Skin Two events, dominatrix spaces, and cross-dressing, reflecting evolving ideas of desire and identity.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 to 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.

A sweet life full of pleasure and indulgence, 'La Dolce Vita' was a phrase that entered popular usage following the success of the 1960 film La Dolce Vita written and directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimee. As a phrase it has come to sum up the Golden Age of stylish sophistication in Italy that spanned the years 1958 to 1964. This beautifully illustrated book features over 300 surprisingly candid and revealing photographs from this remarkable era, and captures an era of effortless cool and glamorous style.

L'Armour Fou explores the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement, featuring photographic works from artists including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton, Brassaï, Salvador Dalí, André Kertész, and Hans Bellmer.

A collection of images taken by Lee Friedlander of his wife Maria and his family from 1960 to the 1990s, accompanied by an interview with the photographer.

In this ongoing project, Anthony Hernandez documents the haunts of the world's homeless, proceeds to international sites and finds similar scenes.

Fred Astaire is best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time.

A collection of photographic works by George Orwell presented in a special edition supplement of The Sunday Times.
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Shot over the period of 5 months in 2017, Yodo Hito documents the communities and individuals who have built their homes or congregate along the concrete oodplains of the Yodogawa River in Osaka city, Japan.

This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at MoMA, is a comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand. Grouped under the following titles—Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work—many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published.

In this closely observed sequence of photographs, Dorothy Bohm has captured her vision of London as it appeared to her in the late 1960s.

Concentrating mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, this is a study of the necklace as an emblem of wealth and status, shaped and reshaped throughout the centuries by successive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptian broad collar to the diamond chokers of the 1920s.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Sexism in social work, Health in Nicaragua, Impact of racism on the family, undergraduate social work, stress at the workplace.

8 Women presents Schorr's work from the mid-nineties to the present. The works in 8 Women propose a variety of subjects, all of whom are involved in performance, be it as artists, models or musicians. Working between out-takes and manipulations of tear sheets, Schorr questions who the women that desire to be looked at are, as well as what power exists in acknowledging that as a post-feminist position.

New York photographer Tina Barney was born to an upper-class East Coast family. Ever since she started to take photographs in 1974 she has documented and examined her family's life. As an intimate observer, the viewer witnesses the intricacies of social rituals-weddings, Christmas dinners, and cocktail parties. Barney captures the tension between the polished surfaces and the intensity of the feelings underneath.

A handwritten cookbook of everything from soups to pizzas, and a guide to communal living.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 11: In Ruins

What's In My Library is a series of Prince's photographs put to a list of Prince's most loved books from his personal collection. Published in 2009 by the Journal and Sadie Coles, it is yet another highly collectable book from Prince and one that features his rare photography work.

The Group of Thirteen (Grupo de los Trece) was a prominent Argentine conceptual art collective from the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) in Buenos Aires, known for its "systems art" (conceptual, ecological, performance art) challenging art's role in society, notably winning the top prize at the 1977 São Paulo Biennial with their installation Signs in Artificial Ecosystems, featuring artists like Jorge Glusberg, Luis Benedit, Victor Grippo, Leopoldo Maler, Vicente Marotta, Luis Pazos, and Clorindo Testa.
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This book is a journey into the film of Morvern Callar directed by Lynne Ramsay. A collection of impressions and behind the scenes shots.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 6: Tokyo Novel

Photographs of fugitive and performance artist CS Leigh.

This three-volume book looks back on Supreme's T-shirt archives from the year 1994 to now. Each volume is dedicated to a different time and period, providing an introspective look into every T-Shirt that the New York imprint has released throughout its 30-year history

A collection of photographic remnants from the 20p photobooth.

The iconic black-and-white photographs of Hamburg-born photographer Frank Habicht displayed in this book reflect the spirit of the Swinging Sixties in London. In the 1960s, the conservative postwar years in England gave way to a period of upheaval, with a younger generation dreaming of an unconstrained life, peace and harmony. On the streets of the British capital, Habicht began photographing the profound social and political changes that were underway.

Frida by Ishiuchi is the first photographic documentation ever published of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's personal attire and belongings, as portrayed by Japanese artist Miyako Ishiuchi. The victim of a nearly fatal bus accident as a young woman, Kahlo used fashion to channel her resulting physical difficulties into courageous statements of heritage, strength and beauty.

Original exhibition catalogue for architect and writer Theo Crosby’s exhibition involving architects, artists, designers and theorists which took place at the Whitechapel in 1956 in collaboration with members of the Independent Group. The theme was the ‘modern’ way of living and the exhibition was based on a model of collaborative art practice. The 38 participants formed 12 groups, which worked towards producing one artwork. The outcome transformed the Whitechapel Gallery into a vibrant interactive space of installations.

In a series of stunning black and white images, Tocororo: A Cuban Tale follows the creation of Carlos Acosta's first piece of dance theatre as choreographer and star, from its rehearsals and world premiere in Cuba to its sell-out debut at London's Sadlers Wells theatre.

The actual, original programme to the 1969 Woodstock music festival, featuring artist profiles, essays, and photos from everyone who was scheduled to play. In shockingly good condition, this is a proper slice of cultural history, beautifully designed.


A collection of black and white male nudes taken between 1940-1970 by Bruce of Los Angeles.

Book detailing the practice of architectural training at the Bauhau based on the lecture notes made by the Dutch ex-Bauhaus student and architect J.J. van der Linden of the Mies van der Rohe curriculum.

Bordertown by Barry Gifford is a gritty, lyrical collection of photos, stories, drawings, poems, news clippings, and odd ephemera set along the blurred edges of the U.S.-Mexico border—a place where cultures collide, identities shift, and the line between law and outlaw is paper-thin. With his signature noir-infused prose, Gifford introduces a cast of drifters, dreamers, and desperados navigating lives of danger, desire, and displacement. Atmospheric and sharply observed, Bordertown captures the raw poetry of life on the margins, offering a vivid portrait of a land and its people caught between worlds.

GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.

Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang photographed pairs of some 700 psychiatric inmates who are chained together and forced to tend one million chickens on a large farm in Taiwan.

Deborah Turbeville is remembered today as a pioneering figure in fashion photography, known for her melancholic, dreamlike imagery that diverged from conventional standards. However, after working with Harper's Bazar, he soon lost interest in conventional editorial work, turning instead to photography as an outlet for artistic expression and experimentation. Les Amoureuses Du Temps Passe, translated to Lovers of Time Passing, is a collection of some of her best images in fashion and beyond.

Small World is Martin Parr’s long-running photographic series examining global tourism and its cultural rituals. First published in 1996 and revised in 2007, this third edition (2018) adds over 40 new images to the classic body of work. Spanning more than three decades, it combines iconic and recent photographs to reflect the evolving spectacle of mass travel.

Unseen Vogue goes beyond the cliches and often repeated "greatest hits" of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before— rejects and outtakes—to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography.

Stile in Progress is a celebration of thirty years of L'Uomo Vogue and brings together 100s of the best fashion photographs from its pages. The photographers featured over the three decades include Steven Meisel, Oliviero Toscani, Albert Watson, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino, Arthur Elgort, Snowdon, Ellen von Unwerth, Peter Lindbergh, and more.
This book contains over 330 Namio Harukawa illustrations, a short manga, seven unfinished sketches, two photos of his atelier, and essays by Shigeru Kashima.

‘Rain Time’ is a large collection of photographs found at a flea market in London documenting the self-portraiture of one woman’s penchant for deep-sea submersion via the burgeoning world of rubber fetishism. The collage works in the collection precede by at least 15 years what would become the cut n’ paste aesthetic of punk, devising and framing new identities culled from images in the daily papers, on the spectrum from Sophia Loren to Mrs Mills. 'Rain Time’ reveals a hitherto unseen world of exploratory erotic investigation taking place for personal satisfaction behind the net curtains of suburban Britain. It is so called for the catalogue of rubber wear accompanying the archive, one subsequently employed by Vivienne Westwood for her revolutionary Kings Road ‘Sex’ shop a decade later.
The Library
Our Library is the heart of Reference Point and from where all other elements take their philosophy and context. An evolving and growing collection of rare books, ephemera and printed matter focused on Post-War Radical Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion and Culture. The library exists to create inspiration and conversation, and provide creatives of all stages and disciplines reference points for their projects.
Our librarians are always on hand to serve as research assistants but you can also email us with your interests and project brief and we can prepare a selection of works in advance of your visit.
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