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Furniture Pimp: Unique pieces from the collection of Jim Walrod, connoisseur and floating free radical

Apr 18th, 2018

//Catalogue cover featuring detail of Tête Cultivée, Nicola L, 1970//

As befits a sorely-missed man of singular style and taste, the catalogue for the forthcoming sale Furniture Pimp: The Collection Of Jim Walrod is an absolute treat.

//Right: Walrod at home photographed by Collin Hughes; Left: works featured in the forthcoming sale//

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Carl Apfelschnitt, James Chance, Madonna, Stephen Sprouse… How Kate Simon covered Manhattan’s cultural waterfront for The Face in the 80s

Mar 28th, 2018

//A Prayer For Madonna, The Face, September 1983. Photography: Kate Simon, text: James Truman. This was the superstar’s first substantial UK press appearance, five months ahead of her British live debut//

Of the many talented photographers who provided The Face with its visual verve, Kate Simon was uniquely positioned to chronicle the cutting edge cultural developments in New York in the 1980s.

Simon had spent much of the previous decade in London, photographing musicians and performers from Bob Marley and David Bowie to the Sex Pistols and The Clash (whose debut album features her striking portrait of Strummer, Jones and Simonon). Crucially, Simon’s work also appeared in the New Musical Express during The Face founder Nick Logan’s editorship of the music paper.

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