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His Supro guitar and the leather jacket - reminiscent of James Dean; the muse of his hobo period Suze Rotolo and his legendary Triumph Bonneville; the Newport Jazz Festival and the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village: artist Matteo Guarnaccia has documented this pilgrimage of styles stage by stage, year by year, with a wealth of detail.  The clothes, faces, music and places of those years become subjects to colour in, paper-dolls to dress, and board games to assemble, while the characters of his songs provide the members of a colourful circus.  This is the ultimate collector's activity-book to be approached with glue, scissors and colouring pencils, dedicated to all the fans of the legendary singer-songwriter.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49706742907153,"sku":"GOR009358192","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53270510731537,"sku":"GOR010514297","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1851498214.jpg?v=1750930911"},{"product_id":"cross-cultural-chairs-8-chairs-from-8-countries-book-matteo-guarnaccia-9789083350103","title":"Cross Cultural Chairs: 8 Chairs from 8 Countries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow people sit and are seated: an anthropology of chair design\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anatomy of our bodies invites sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our means of sitting been colonized by modern design? And how is the culturally various act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? Italian artist Matteo Guarnaccia's (born 1993) \u003ci\u003eCross Cultural Chairs\u003c\/i\u003e is a research-based design project \"about the cultural context of furniture, understanding how globalization is shaping design around the world.\" He writes, \"it's an exploration that lies between social and technical aspects of chairs.\" To execute this project, Guarnaccia visited eight different countries to conduct research and talk to local design studios, ultimately collaborating with them to portray each culture in the form of a chair. \u003ci\u003eCross Cultural Chairs\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the hidden depths of furniture design and the ways in which cultural norms assert themselves through functional commodities, opening up a conversation about identity, community and expression through chairs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49750823207185,"sku":"NGR9789083350103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51065280397585,"sku":"NIN9789083350103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/908335010X.jpg?v=1751191658"},{"product_id":"david-bowie-play-book-book-matteo-guarnaccia-9781851498420","title":"David Bowie Play Book","description":"For the duration of his career, David Bowie kept away from scripts imposed by others, choosing, for better or for worse, to write his own story of his life.  From the Sixties until his death in 2016, he created a series of fictional figures, imagining them in full, designing, and translating them on stage, giving each its unique identity.       The clothes, faces, and music of those years become subjects to colour in, paper-dolls to dress, and board games to assemble in this, the ultimate collector's activity-book: to be approached with glue, scissors and colouring pencils, dedicated to all the fans of the legendary superstar.       Also available:    Bob Dylan Play Book ISBN 9781851498215    Punk Play Book ISBN 9781851493243","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49938270454033,"sku":"GOR009682488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1851498427.jpg?v=1751379358"},{"product_id":"elio-fiorucci-book-matteo-guarnaccia-9788867326563","title":"Elio Fiorucci","description":"Elio Fiorucci (June 10, 1935 – July 19, 2015) helped define the very idea of fashion by pushing limits into heterogeneous contexts. Through his work, this book highlights the communicative aspect of his way of doing fashion design. The impressive list of his collaborations includes Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Madonna, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Oliviero Toscani, Antonio lopez, Keith Haring, Ettore Sottsass, Archizoom and John Cage","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50455113662737,"sku":"GOR013959175","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50628920672529,"sku":"GOR014017398","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8867326562.jpg?v=1750904243"},{"product_id":"punk-play-book-book-matteo-guarnaccia-9788866483243","title":"Punk Play Book","description":"A collector's coloring and activity-book dedicated to the clothes, bands, and key people and places of the punk era; the complete guide to the brilliant world of punk Celebrating everything punk. Color, cut, play This play book is being published four decades after the birth of punk, and it is devoted to one of the most spectacular youth revolutions in the whole of history: a provocation held together by safety pins, one that was rather short lived (1976-1980) but definitely made its point. and left a deep mark on our imagination. Thanks to torn clothing, spiky hair, chains, razor blades, studs, leather, sullen facial expressions, and a fast pace, the movement elbowed its way to the frontline of style. Punk was the product of an economic crisis, of the failure of ideologies, of the wake-up call of the dream of love and peace in the sixties, but it was also a healthy reaction to the tediousness and pomposity of the cultural pundits. It appeared with a rebellious and rude attitude, together with vibrant music performed by a motley crew of performers wearing garish stage outfits: from the Sex Pistols to The Clash, from Iggy pop to The Ramones. In spite of nihilist radicalness and its prophetic promise of No Future, punk did guarantee a future to the fashion system by putting forward myriad new ideas. It ritualized violence, its visual terrorism was transformed into a successful sartorial stereotype. The Punk Playbook invites you to play punk by coloring in, cutting, pasting, and putting together figures that recall the places, the idiosyncrasies, and the cult heroes of the punk scene - and to enjoy the educational supplement dedicated to the movement's fairy godmother, the great name in fashion, Vivienne Westwood, and her outrageous creations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51325836427537,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325838885137,"sku":"CIN8866483249G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8866483249.jpg?v=1751417545"},{"product_id":"pirates-book-matteo-guarnaccia-9781584236436","title":"Pirates","description":"Pirates is a map to the world of the buccaneer, looking at how these iconic figures make their presence known today. 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