OPEN TODAY 12-4 PM. IN THE BOOKSHOP: BLESS - CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THEMELESSNESS: N° 00 – N° 29 (2006) - The now very sought-after, scarce, encyclopedic, ten-year survey monograph of Berlin's famed BLESS. Sternberg Press have published two "catalogue raisonné" volumes documenting the oeuvre of Bless, this being the first, long out-of-print volume, designed by Manuel Raeder and published in 2006, documenting everything from their beginnings in the late 1990's up until 2006. - 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. Objects such as customizable footwear, disposable T-shirts, chair covers, table mobiles, cable jewellery, and wallpapers, but also an “extended hotel service” range among the many products that have resulted from their manipulations of a garment or piece of furniture. - Edited by Desiree Heiss, Ines Kaag, and Manuel Raeder, with texts by Thimo te Duits, Elein Fleiss, Nakako Hayashi, Stéphanie Moisdon, Ulf Poschardt, Pro qm, Adriano Sack, Barbara Steiner, Olivier Zahm, interviews by Manuel Raeder with Nobuyoshi Tamura Shihan and by Jan Winkelmann with Bless. This fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless’ activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production. A must for any fan. - Two copies available in the bookshop and via our website. - #worldfoodbooks #bless #manuelraeder #sternbergpress #2006 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
