CHONKY: an exhibition of artist bookends

An in situ group show open to everyone of artist made bookends. Hosted by us.

Opening party November 5th, 6-8pm. Awards. Objects for sale.

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“in this thicket, each smallest branch, plant, fern, root --- must now be isolated, observed, picked over, measured, raised as though a word, an accuracy were a pincer!” -Charles Olson

Oskar Schlemmer, Man: Teaching Notes from the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 1971). A Bauhaus Book.

$60.00

Cloth, dj, quarto, 159 pp., illustrated. Small stain (coffee?) on front panel of dustjacket. Otherwise, a near fine and bright copy.

A reconstruction of the notes from the one year that Schlemmer taught figure drawing at the Bauhaus. A super cool volumes that bridges the new ideas of Bauhaus with more traditional representation. Kinda a time capsule, but also still useful.

$60 shipped. $50 in store.

ISBN: 0-262-19095-8

We would’ve given her the Nobel for this paragraph alone.

#annecarson
#erosthebittersweet

Art of Aboriginal Australia. Essay by Ronald M. Berndt. Presented by Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., 1974.

Exhibition catalogue of a large donation of Aboriginal art that toured Canada between 1974 and 1976. Great color reproductions of the intr

DESIGN/OBJECT/ART conversation

Saturday, September 12th from 3-4pm we're excited to host three incredibly talented artists/designers/makers of stunning objects: @iriseichenberg , @scottklinkerdesign , and @camber.atelier for a discussion in the stor

UPDATE: party postponed until Sunday, September 5. Open late that night. Regular hours today.

With the #detroitmonthofdesign opening celebration just a couple of blocks away, we’ll be open until 9pm tomorrow night. Come by before or after, we

From an obscure literary journal dedicated to Paul Blackburn.

On this day in 1992, John Cage travelled to another plane. We can only wish to have a tenth of his enthusiasm--for mushrooms, for chess, for friendship, for sound, for life.

The Ron Padgett quote: "The fifth thing / was that I knew John Cage w

Sun’s up and we’re open early. Come on by, we’ve got coffee from our friends @decentdetroit Here until 6 with lots of new arrivals hitting the shelves.

Found at an undisclosed place in New Hampshire. Lillian Myers Pear’s 1976 The Pewabic Pottery: A History of Its Product and People. Really nice copy too. It’ll be in the shop on Thursday.

Closed this Wednesday as we hunt for Shakers and

We hear that one of our favorite publishers @lostartpress is going to be doing a new marquetry book in the future with @albert.a.kleine. We're psyched to see it, but in the meantime . . .

Modern Maquetry Handbook, edited by Harry J. Hobbs and Allan

Traditional Balinese Culture, selected and edited by Jane Belo (Columbia University Press, 1970).

A massive volume of 18 essays published as the Western world was just being made aware of the beauty and complexity of the arts in Bali. Includes three

More photo essay than architectural monograph, a dense immersion into the work of Moderisme Catala architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner. Part of the Fotoscop series, it's easy to get lost in the blended world of Gothic and Art Nouveau both haunting an

A steamed classic. The book that changed America's taste in dumplings. Florence Lin expanded the palette from boring Chop Suey to a world of Chinese cooking, and this one's got all the baking secrets you need to know--noodles, wontons, dumplings, fla

A great introduction to the breadth of Yoko Ono's works--from the early Fluxus action pieces, through the sculptures, political actions, corporeal pieces, films, music--it's pretty much all in this one (and wonderfully narrated throughout by Barbara

Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of The Cloisters by Tanya Bayard (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985).

The Cloisters reproduced the garden as depicted in their most famous work, The Unicorn Tapestry, as well as other m

Architecture in Northern Ghana: A Study of Forms and Functions, by Labelle Prussia (University of California Press, 1969).

Super cool, hard to find volume on indigenous forms and settlement patterns in 6 villages of Northern Ghana.

Form follows fun

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We’re at 1533 Cadillac Blvd., entrance on St. Paul on the East Side of Detroit, one block north of Jefferson.

Wed-Fri: noon-6pm

Sat-Sun: 10am-6pm

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