Mark Borthwick, Social documentaries amid this pist
Softcover, 240 pp., web offset 1/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 250
Published by Mark Borthwick (2002)
$150.00 ·
condition:
good, minor edge wear, binding intact.
A social documentary. An appropriation of distinctions between elements. Grey area. An essay in images that repeat themselves. An apparent way to dilute the importance of one over another. Black and white photographs, hand written texts, and xeroxed pages.
Aaron Rose, Art, Bernadette Corporation, Bless, Brendan Fowler, Claude Closky, Culture, Desiree Heiss, Elein Fleiss, Ines Kaag, Made in USA, Maria Cornejo, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Olivier Zahm, Photography, Purple, Susan Cianciolo, Used
Condiment 2, Questionable Taste
Softcover, 90 pp., offset 4/4, 165 x 230 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1837–8226
Published by Condiment
$18.00 ·
This issue of Condiment has reminded us of the simple truth that we are living with food, not living for food. In this context, the aim shifts from accomplishment to a need for further exploration. Ideas and approaches to food have never seemed so evolved and exaggerated. Yet, as the focus on the meal continues to increase, we risk forgetting about all the hours of living that exist in between. Rather than only being an object of desire, food needs also to be a subject of discussion—approached not as a statement about politics, provenance or proficiency, but as an open-ended question mark. In some form or another, we hope that each page of this issue raises questions —not just about what food is, but about what it can be. After all, each meal is both an outcome and a new beginning.
Produced in collaboration with BLESS. Images from their collection BLESS N° 42, Plädoyer der Jetztzeit appear on each page of the publication.
Amanda Maxwell, Bless, Cameron Allan McKean, Chris Barton, Condiment, Desiree Heiss, Distribution, Elizabeth Bryant, Ellen Birrell, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, ffiXXed, Food, Geoff Newton, Ines Kaag, Jessica Brent, Klara Källström, Linus Bill, Misha Hollenbach, Nancy Bale, Riley Payne, Shauna T., Stefan Marx, Taro EF Nettleton, Thobias Fäldt, Thomas Jeppe, Tim J Veling, Uta Eisenreich
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 10
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-88-3
Published by Nieves
$20.00 ·
“A year ago, I visited Aichi prefecture in the end of summer. It was to reflect on the work of Nobuya Hitsuda, as well as to see the exhibition “In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students” that reflects on the time, in his 40 years of teaching experience, he spent with his students, such as Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Kyoko Murase, Mika Kato and many more.
Although having visited on an assignment, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Even for people who are actively recognized, there are still moments, numerous times in your life, where one needs to spend those blue hours alone. The process, to be alone, to suffer with unsettled emotion, is necessary to move forward.
Around the same time, I was asked by chance to write an essay, and decided to write on raising children. Raising children is also about continuous time that cannot be controlled. In the end of that summer, those were the two things that were on my mind, so I decided to put together an issue for Here and There, focusing on the blue hour that can make our lives colorful, as well as the color blue itself.
I looked up at the blue sky. Blue is a color that represents the beauty of nature, but at the same time, it exists in many things manmade. Blue can be found in clothing you wear against your skin, somewhere near you, and far away. The aim is to seek for a blue in personal emotions and in the growing process of people and to find it scattered in the world. This, hoping that it will be an attempt to sprout something in people’s hearts.”
—Nakako Hayashi
Aki Goto, Akira Minagawa, Akira Onozuka, Aoi Nagae, Art, Bless, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Here and There, Katsumi Omori, Kazunari Hattori, Lactitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Nobuya Hitsuda, Susan Cian, Takashi Homma, Takehito Koganezawa, Yukinori Maeda
Bless, Retrospective Home Nº30 — Nº41
Softcover, 416 pp., offset 4/4, 185 x 250 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-934105-12-2
Published by Sternberg Press
$45.00 · out of stock
Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalize on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between and the mixing of the systems of art, fashion, and design. This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS’s last twelve collections (N° 30-N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends. Their latest project, N° 41 Retroperspective Home, culminates in an exhibition / intervention of the same title at the Kunsthaus.” The hybrid nature of [BLESS’s] output cries out to be tackled by an institution like ours,” state the curators of the exhibition,” but at the same time makes it very difficult to do so … This is precisely where the challenge of our exhibition lies, seeing art as design and fashion as architecture.”
Art, Bless, Desiree Heiss, Fashion, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, RAM, Sternberg Press
Katya Garcia-Anton and Emily King, Wouldn’t it be nice
Softcover, 300 pp., offset 4/1, 232 x 297 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-905829-24-2
Published by JRP|Ringier
$42.00 ·
Contemporary culture is witnessing one of the most significant shifts of recent times. The old dividing lines between artists and designers appear to be dissolving into one another. Indeed the breadth and range of investigation and inspiration they share is possibly the widest to date. This publication
Wouldn’t it be nice hopes to present a series of projects emerging from these lines of dissolution, which reflect the current spirit of cultural production internationally.
The publication includes interviews with Jurgen Bey, Bless, Dexter Sinister, Dunne & Raby and Michael Anastassiades, Alicia Framis, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Martí Guixé, Tobias Rehberger, and Superflex. Fully illustrated, the book presents a number of projects that have been specially commissioned for the exhibition. Quoting the aesthetic of the glossy magazine, the publication is designed by London-based group Graphic Thought Facility, and has attached to each cover a Bless N°14–2000, Shopping Supports Stickerbags self-adhesive purse/multiple.
Alicia Framis, Art, Bless, Christian Brändle, Criticism, DAP, Dexter Sinister, Emily King, Fashion, Jean-Pierre Greff, JRP|Ringier, Jurgen Bey, Katya Garcia-Anton, Martí Guixé, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Theory, Tobias Rehberger
Textfield IV / Bless N˚27, Eased Up
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 4/1, 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Edition of 2500
Published by Textfield
$20.00 ·
Contributors; Becca Albee, Timothy Aubry, AUDC, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Nina Jan Beier, Mariana Castillo Deball, Fritz Haeg, Chace Hartman, Nakako Hayashi, Marco Fiedler, Johnny Freedom, Marc Kremers, Prem Krishnamurthy, Marie Jan Lund, Jonathan Maghen, Rob McKenzie, Francois Perrin, Angelo Plessas, Achim Reichert, Anna Sew Hoy, Jennifer Stratford, Nikola Tosic, and Michael Wells.
Achim Reichert, Angelo Plessas, Anna Sew Hoy, Architecture, Art, AUDC, Bless, cca Albee, Chace Hartman, Desiree Heiss, Distribution, Fashion, Francois Perrin, Fritz Haeg, Graphics, Ines Kaag, Jennifer Stratford, Johnny Freedom, Jonathan Maghen, Manuel Raeder, Marc Kremers, Marco Fiedler, Mariana Castillo Deball, Marie Jan Lund, Michael Wells, Nakako Hayashi, Nikola Tosic, Nina Jan Beier, Photography, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Prem Krishnamurthy, Rob McKenzie, Textfield, Timothy Aubry, Typography, Vier5
Bless, Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness, Nº00 — Nº29
Softcover, 496 pp., offset 4/1 + fore-edge printing, 185 x 250 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-15-3
Published by Sternberg Press
out of print
Bless came to fame in the winter of 97/98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore Bless wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu. Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, Bless slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising. Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way.
Designed by Manuel Raeder, this fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless’ activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.
Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), and most recently at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Their collaborations with other brands range from Adidas to Levi’s, Nike, Mikli and Droog over to the jewellery designer Bucherer.
Adriano Sack, Art, Barbara Steiner, Bless, Culture, Desiree Heiss, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Graphics, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, Nakako Hayashi, Olivier Zahm, RAM, Stéphanie Moisdon, Sternberg Press, Thimo te Duits, Typography, Ulf Poschardt
032c 18, Thomas Demand
Softcover, 272 pp. + Thomas Demand dossier, offset 4/1, 20 x 27 cm
Edition of 2000
Published by 032c
$20.00 ·
Our knowledge of images is my material,” says artist THOMAS DEMAND in part of our 40-page Demand Dossier featuring interviews with filmmaker Todd Solondz, architect Adam Caruso, museum director Udo Kittelmann, and more; meanwhile Nike CEO MARK PARKER discusses creativity, commerce, and charity; Design Director at BMW ADRIAN VAN HOOYDONK tells Konstantin Grcic about the future of the driving experience; the MONTANA Club seduces Paris night life all over again; artist LUCAS SAMARAS pulls back the curtain on his prophetic creative vision; SLAVS & TATARS conjures ghosts of COMMUNISM past the 20th anniversary of its fall; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN captures supermodel Trish Goff in a Big Sur splash; DANKO STEINER sets a new New York standard with CHLOË, MISSY, LIZZI, and NATASA in “Alphabet City”; the 032c SELECT premieres with 30-plus brand new pages of material culture.
032c, Adam Caruso, Alasdair McLellan, Architecture, Art, Bless, Culture, Danko Steiner, Distribution, Fashion, Lucas Samaras, Mike Meire, Photography, Slavs and Tatars, Thomas Demand, Todd Solondz, Tris Goff, Typography, Udo Kittelmann
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 6
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves
$20.00 ·
Here and There comes back, after two years of absence from the independent magazine scene, with
Unexpected Travelling Issue, a sixth issue which counts already familiar but also new illustrious collaborations.
In Nakako’s own words, the vision behind the Unexpected Travelling Issue was: “One day, someone told me her ideal garden is what looks like no one is taking care of, and have so many different pretty flowers in springtime. The other day my friend told me she has an ideal image of bringing up kids even though in reality she has to deal with daily life living in crowded Tokyo. I am into those stories, and new issue must be something related to this ‘ideal’ world. in each people’s minds. Maybe you can talk about ideal books making”
Anne Daems, Bless, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Els Beusen, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takako Minekawa, Takashi Homma, Yayako Uchida, Yoshimi, Yukinori Maeda, Yurie Nagashima
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 5
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves
out of print
Elein Fleiss,
Purple Journal’s editor-in-chief, speaks of Nakako Hayashi and her magazine
Here and There: When I met Nakako Hayashi, she was still working for
Hanatsubaki magazine. Then, in 2001 she decided to go on her own and started
Here and There in the spring of 2002. The first issue came out in March of that year, and the moment I first saw it remains in my memory as an important event in the world of independent magazines.
Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako’s name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.
Bless, Daisuke Miyatsu, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Kazunari Hattori, Mark Borthwick, Midori Araki, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takako Minekawa, Takashi Homma
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 3
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 297 x 420 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves
out of print
Elein Fleiss,
Purple Journal’s editor-in-chief, speaks of Nakako Hayashi and her magazine
Here and There: When I met Nakako Hayashi, she was still working for
Hanatsubaki magazine. Then, in 2001 she decided to go on her own and started
Here and There in the spring of 2002. The first issue came out in March of that year, and the moment I first saw it remains in my memory as an important event in the world of independent magazines.
Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako’s name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.
Anne Daems, Bless, Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Susan Cianciolo, Yukinori Maeda
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 2
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 297 x 420 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves
out of print
Elein Fleiss,
Purple Journal’s editor-in-chief, speaks of Nakako Hayashi and her magazine
Here and There: When I met Nakako Hayashi, she was still working for
Hanatsubaki magazine. Then, in 2001 she decided to go on her own and started
Here and There in the spring of 2002. The first issue came out in March of that year, and the moment I first saw it remains in my memory as an important event in the world of independent magazines.
Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako’s name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.
Anne Daemes, Bless, Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Lutz, Martin Margiela, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Wendy&Jim
