Marquand Books Blog http://marquandbooks.com/blog/ en sarab@marquand.com Copyright 2010 2010-09-01T22:26:25+00:00 Library of Babel http://marquandbooks.com/blog/library_of_babel/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/library_of_babel/#When:22:26:25Z

Photo: Pasi Aalto / pasiaalto.com

Considering a library remodel? Why not install the Ark, part of the recent Architects Build Small Spaces show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Connecting two floors of the exhibition, the structure is a climbable freestanding bookshelf by Rintala Eggertsson Architects in Oslo. It comes complete with reading bench. The perfect place to waste away a weekend.

More photographs are at Arch Daily's Web site.

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Marquand Books is moving to a new space a stone's throw from SAM, Pike Place Market, and Elliott Bay. You can follow our progress here.

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Marquand Books is thrilled to announce the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, published with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The first book-length publication about Wright's masterpiece since the 1980s features an introduction by New Yorker architecture critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Goldberger.

For more details and ordering information, click here.

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]]> New Releases 2010-08-18T22:52:01+00:00 Dinner with Dalí http://marquandbooks.com/blog/dali_the_late_work/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/dali_the_late_work/#When:23:18:26Z Dalí: The Late Work features important work created by the Spanish artist between 1940-1983. Some pieces have not been seen in decades, most notably "Santiago El Grande" and "Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapilazulina," not publicly viewed since 1959. Atlanta magazine had this to say about the show and Marquand-produced exhibition catalogue designed by Jeff Wincapaw:

 In short, Salvador Dalí: The Late Work…is an outside-the-box exhibition that should make Atlantans once again grateful to have a world-class art museum within footsteps of home...Art lovers can pick up the gorgeous, authoritative official catalog of the show published by the High Museum of Art and Yale University.

To whet your palate, watch this 1941 newsreel of a classic Dali dinner party:

For exhibition highlights full details click here.

]]> Advances Arriving 2010-08-11T23:18:26+00:00 MadArt In the Park http://marquandbooks.com/blog/jyjy/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/jyjy/#When:22:52:38Z Cal Anderson Park sits a stone's throw from the new Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. The heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the park is always bustling in the summer with kids playing in the fountain and people reading, napping and walking dogs. It's the perfect venue for the freshly installed MadArt In the Park exhibit. Sponsored by the Seattle Parks Department and 4Culture, Cal Anderson is hosting six local visual artists commissioned to create site specific installations:

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If the premise that good contemporary art prepares the world for what is to come holds true, then artists can share their uncanny sense to feel the times and places in which we live. Like human antennas, they gather and explore the mysteries they witness. The six selected artists have conceptualized designs as a blip in time, as a glimpse of life in metaphor. 

Each artist uses a different perspective to capture these moments. Jason Puccinelli draws on the future, while Stephen Rock excavates the past.  Amy Johnson tells her story based on a folk tale and Justin Lytle envisions his moment as a bird that no longer can fly. Both Casey Curran and Alex Hayden reflect the earth from mirror—like vantage points.

Through September 12. Click here for more info and artist profiles.

]]> Events & Conferences 2010-08-04T22:52:38+00:00 Maps and Legends http://marquandbooks.com/blog/maps_and_legends/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/maps_and_legends/#When:23:52:04Z UK-based on-line bookseller The Book Depository is a good resource for finding publications that are either out of print or not widely available in the US.

Check out the "Watch People Shop" feature. Tracing tabs on a world map as they ping-pong between recent sales in real time in entrancing. Someone in California just bought African Animal Stickers. Then someone in South Africa bought The Last Snake Man. Someone in Canada bought The Stars, and someone in Australia bought Bright Star a few minutes later. It's like six degrees of book separation.

]]> Books, Bookselling 2010-07-27T23:52:04+00:00 Prêt-à-Porter http://marquandbooks.com/blog/pret-a-porter/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/pret-a-porter/#When:19:10:30Z Book Patrol recently clued us in on what just might be the next big trend for the bookworm set: literate fashion!

We're used to musicians and actors launching clothing lines, so why not authors? Douglas Coupland is keeping things interesting with his Roots x Douglas Coupland line featuring Canadian-inspired clothes and home goods.

And with L.A.-based Oogabooga's Bookhanger Neck Chain you're sure to never loose that novel again.

Handy for wearing paperbacks, but art books might be a bit more of a challenge.

 

]]> Art & Design 2010-07-21T19:10:30+00:00 Small is the new big http://marquandbooks.com/blog/small_is_the_new_big/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/small_is_the_new_big/#When:17:00:33Z

The new Mighty Tieton Web site has just been launched. Home to Marquand Editions|Tieton's growing line of gift products carried in museum and gift shops nationally, fresh businesses and events keep popping up in Tieton.

A new addition everyone at Marquand Books is excited about is the installion of a 1920s vintage Smyth Stitcher to bind short-run editions of hand-printed and digital books.



Have a look around for a few minutes, won't you?

]]> Design Ephemera, New Releases 2010-07-13T17:00:33+00:00 Where Sky Meets Earth http://marquandbooks.com/blog/where_sky_meets_earth_the_luminous_landscapes_of_victoria_adams/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/where_sky_meets_earth_the_luminous_landscapes_of_victoria_adams/#When:21:46:11Z Victoria Adams has earned critical acclaim and developed a passionate following for her beautiful, Northwest-inspired landscape paintings. Celebrate the recent opening of her one-person exhibition on July 15 at 5:30 pm at the Tacoma Art Museum. Events for the evening include a lecture, gallery walk, and signing of the Marquand-produced book by the artist.

Click here for more info.

]]> Events & Conferences 2010-07-07T21:46:11+00:00 Small Art Can Be Mighty http://marquandbooks.com/blog/small_art_can_be_mighty/ http://marquandbooks.com/blog/small_art_can_be_mighty/#When:23:16:08Z

There are a lot of good reasons to submit art to 10 x 10 x 10 x Tieton, Mighty Tieton's inaugural juried exhibition, before the July 5 deadline. The theme? Small is big. Which is a lot like Tieton, a little town over the Cascades in Washington State that's home to our letterpress studio and a plethora of other compelling projects and artists.

Ed Marquand, Gail Gibson of Gail Gibson Gallery and Greg Kucera of Greg Kucera Gallery form the jury. All entries will be featured in a color catalogue of the exhibit. For an application and full details, download a PDF of the prospectus here.

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