House.

House by Yu Ogata & Ichio Ogata Ono
Idea Books

There is a man outside the store trying to fly a paper bag like a kite, while being filmed. It's not very windy in LA today so I wonder how it's going to turn out. I just heard Malcolm Mclaren died. He was a frequent customer of the restaurant I worked at when I first arrived here. He was terrifying, a little bit cruel and always surrounded by attractive Japanese people. I often wanted to ask him about Vivienne (obsessed I am), but I never plucked up the courage. I read he was suffering from horrid cancer, so I hope he's in a happier place now. Cancer blows.

Wren.

I like very much the clothing line Wren (the website's cool too). It's based in LA and the designer Melissa Coker is a local Silverlake person. Today I bought a Bonjour Tristesse t-shirt dress online. I am very happy because my bff has the above tank top and I covet it repeatedly. Maybe now the feelings of jealousy and resentment I feel when I see her wearing it will disappear.

Roy McMakin.

Roy McMakin

Rizzoli, 2010

Mr. Glenn Lawson introduced me to the work of Roy McMakin a few years ago. I love how clever and quirky it is but very quiet at the same time. Lucky for me this book just came out by Rizzoli. I could have scanned every page but this would be time-consuming and possibly illegal.

Kirsten.

Kirsten Dunst in the new issuse of V magazine. Awesomeballs.

Le Corbusier and the Maison Jaoul.

Other great chapter titles include "In Search of Authenticity: The Genesis of the Project."

"Le Corbusier on his terrace at the rue Nungesser-et-Coli apartment, Paris, holding a terracotta pitcher in the shape of a goose."

Le Corbusier & The Maison Jaoul.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Le Corbusier designed 2 houses in Paris for the Jaoul family in the fifties but scholars and people who like him tend to gloss over these lovely houses. Princeton Architectural Press put out this book last year to try and rectify the situation. It has amazing photos covering all sorts; the houses, the plans, book covers L.C. designed at the time, pictures of himself and others...oh, just all sorts. Well worth a looksee.

Paper.

Paper Magazine publishes lists of cool people every year or every other year or something. Anyway, this year Autumn de Wilde and her bff Shirley Kurata are on this list. You can read about them here. I like Autumn de Wilde's photos a lot and I especially like that Kurata is wearing a vintage Geoffrey Beene dress in this photo. I HEART GEOFFREY BEENE. I also like that they have movie nights with Elijah Wood. As anyone who knows me knows, I have a predilection for little men that look like hobbits.

Nerd Herd!

Nerd Herd! I'm a member! I'm a member! I don't care! Sometimes beautiful bookcovers make me want to sing and dance! Bearing in mind my singing voice makes people's ears bleed and I dance like an asthmatic ant - this is BIG news. But looky! Loooook! It's gorge!! Designed by Amy Gibson: an MA graduate in fashion from Central St Martins and now working as a senior designer at Topshop, the clever madam has also created designs for classic British labels Mulberry and Margaret Howell. YUM.

Happy Accident.

Robert Longo

Skira, 2010

I think I meant to re-order the Tate book on Richard Long, but instead I ordered this one on artist Robert Longo. I'm not dyslexic, I'm just stoops. I don't know anything about this Robert Longo or his work and it could have been an unfortunate incident. Luckily his work is fab if a little dark. There was one painting of an atomic mushroom cloud explosion that was stunning but I didn't fancy posting it. I am scared of nuclear holocaust. I expect this is a fairly common fear.

Guide For The Unlucky.

Guide for the Unlucky

Universe, 2010

I don't like to take photos of the books, I prefer to scan. I am a shite photographer. This is a pop-up book though, so I couldn't flatten it out without breaking it, which is sort of against the law in here. But it's a POP-UP book. I LIKE A LOT the pop-up. This one is gorgeous. It's about bad luck but the subject matter is almost besides the point. I am quite unlucky, but perhaps it might be clumsiness instead of bad luck. I wish I could draw wallpaper like this. It's wonderful and my shaky pictures do it no justice. The picture of the coat, is an actual coat -affixed in the book, with little buttons sewn on it. The attention to detail is phenomenal! Superb! You can also see my fingernails in some of them. My nail polish is called Orange Fizz. My brother gave it to me for Christmas. I like this a lot too.

Juan Munoz.

Juan Munoz: A Retrospective

Tate

Weirdly amazing. Amazingly weirds.

Fashion Jewelry.

Fashion Jewelry

Lawrence King, 2010

Lawrence King makes the best fashion books. The photos are always so brill. I love jewelry, but sadly, I'm not brilliant at wearing it because I have a weird skin reaction to any metal that isn't platinum. My skin has very expensive tastes. If I wear any other metal compound for a period of time, my skin starts to blister and it looks like I'm suffering from some hideous 18th century malady. Looking at these photos makes me want to throw caution to the wind and bedeck myself in numerous trinkets and baubles. The photos also make me miss my friend Kelly - she makes the most insanely beautiful jewelry and she moved to London at the beginning of the year. The jezebel.

Summer.

Recipes from an Italian Summer

Phaidon, 2010

I can't wait for the summer.

I love it.

I also love "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" by The Smiths.

It is my favourite.

Again!

Gentry: Age of Elegance Issue

Number 16 Fall 1955

The Selby.

The Selby

Abrams, 2010

Lots of people already know about The Selby blog. My friends and I have all suffered from the condition known as "Selby Envy", where you see a home on this blog, imagine the accompanying lifestyle and feel a bit disgruntled with your own. The book lives up to expectations and satisfies all voyeuristic nosiness and gorgeous photo addictions.

Oh Pollocks!

Jackson Pollock

Abrams, 2010 (reissue of 1989)

My friend Krisztina tells me that sometimes I am a bit cheesy. Like when I said to a friend going through a break-up, that she was giving her girlfriend "wings for freedom". I think me shouting "Oh Pollocks!" instead of Oh Bollocks, because I love Jackson P, would also be considered a bit cheesy by Krisztina. I care not. I think I'm high-larry-us.

Nina Pohl.

Nina Pohl

Snoek, 2007

I've stocked this book since we opened 3 years ago. It's my top book of the store. Just got it back in after a small break (=I had a brain drain and forgot about it for 6 months). Pohl's photos are just bazonkers.

ps. I still have blisters and no car. I tried to rent one this morning but they were all rented. The car gods are not on my side this week. Toads.