GREENHORN STUDIO
Double braid poly marine rop vintage cowrie and czech glass beads. Stainless steel findings.
Approx. 6” long
SHELL SHOP
Vinyl sticker with silver mirror finish. A MCM dolphin just like the one in your grandmother’s condo.
Approx. 3.75” x 2”
GREENHORN STUDIO
Double braid polyester marine rope with sliding knot, vintage cowrie and glass beads, natural hag stone. Stainless steel findings.
Approx. 3” diameter, 10.5” long when fully extended
SHELL SHOP
Big glittering vinyl sticker featuring a Rockaway Park original hibiscus.
Approx. 4”
GREENHORN STUDIO
Double braid polyester marine rope, vintage glass beads. Stainless steel caribiner and findings.
Approx. 10” long
PENCIL URCHIN PRESS
Risograph printed, blank greeting card featuring original artwork by Devyn Park. Printed on 80lb cover acid free cardstock in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i.
5” x 7”, includes kraft envelope
Christopher Bascom RAWLINS
As the 1960s became the "Sixties," architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation.
First published in 2013 and long out of print, this iconic book returns in an expanded edition, including five new featured houses, drawings of previously unseen homes, new photography, updated scholarship and a new afterword by Charles Renfro. Published withGordon De Vries Studio.
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GREENHORN STUDIO
The HAG STONE, a naturally occurring stone punctured by water erosion or bivalve, is said to reveal hidden truths. The COWRIE SHELL, with its' graceful curve, a symbol of safe passage. Combined in a WARD, they offer powerful personal protection.
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BETH LESSER
With unprecedented access to the vibrant music scene during the period, Beth Lesser’s photographs are a unique way into a previously hidden part of Jamaican culture.
Born in the 1950s out of the neighborhood sound systems of Kingston, Dancehall grew to its height in the 1980s. Dancehall is an essential reference book for anyone interested in reggae, as well as a unique photographic and textual sourcebook of the musical, cultural and political life of Jamaica. The widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle.
Lyra Kilston
From ailing families seeking a miracle climate cure to iconoclasts and dropouts pursuing a remedy to societal corruption, the abundance of sunshine and untamed nature around the small but growing Los Angeles area offered them refuge and inspiration. In the wild west of medical practice, eclectic nature-cure treatments gained popularity. The source for this trend can be traced to the mountains and cold-water springs of Europe, where early sanatoriums were built to offer the natural cures of sun, air, water and diet; this sanatorium architecture was exported to the West Coast from Central Europe, and began to impact other types of building.
PENCIL URCHIN PRESS
Risograph printed, blank greeting card featuring original artwork by Devyn Park. Printed on 80lb cover acid free cardstock in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i.
5” x 7”, includes kraft envelope
Yvon Chouinard, Steve Pezman, Steve Roper
The story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non-conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsawood boards were replaced with lightweight ones crafted from polyurethane foam, fiberglass and resin. Meanwhile, climbers descended on Tahquitz Rock in the south and Yosemite Valley to the north to test handcrafted equipment that would set new standards for safety, technique and performance. Soaked in surf, sun and adrenaline, the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties depict the birth of an era and an exhilarating moment in Californian history.
GREENHORN STUDIO
Double braid polyester marine rope with sliding knot, oyster shell and vintage resin bead. Stainless steel findings.
Approx. 3” diameter, 10.5” long when fully extended
Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum, Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories—their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Situated on a 10-mile stretch of rugged Northern California coastline, the Sea Ranch was conceived by Alfred Boeke as a retreat from urban living with connection to nature as a guiding principle. Back in print again, this striking book examines the development of the the planned community that has become a touchstone of 1960s West Coast modernism. Featuring breathtaking documentation of the famed compound by Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan and others, this book showcases the exemplary balance between land stewardship and modernist architecture that has made the Sea Ranch a model for living in harmony with nature.
TOM OF FINLAND - PEACHY KINGS
Perfect for penpals, hookups, family, and friend, Tom of Finland classic postcards are printed on heavy, matte paper.
5” x 7”, includes kraft envelope
SHELL SHOP
Transparent vinyl sticker perfect for your laptop or Dodge RAM. Beach don’t kill my vibe.
Approx. 4.5” long, 1” wide
JEFF DIVINE
If you were there, even just for some of it—Hawaii, California, surfing, the ’70s—the memories and stories will flow freely from these photographs. Jeff Divine was there for all of it, and these images have been culled from an enormous personal archive. Divine was shooting for Surfer, the monthly magazine that was the bible of the scene. His photos from this archive show the pre-commercialized era in surfing when the hippie influence still held sway. Surfers had their own slang-infused language and were deep into a world of Mother Ocean, wilderness and a culture that mainstream society spurned. Surfboards were handmade in family garages, often made for a specific kind of wave or speed, for paddling, ease of turning, and featured all kinds of psychedelic designs. Some were even hollowed out to smuggle hash from Morocco.
Raised in La Jolla, California, Jeff Divine - born 1950 - started photographing the surfing world in 1966. He held jobs as photo editor for 35 years with Surfer magazine and Surfer’s Journal. His works have been displayed worldwide in museums and galleries, as well as in books, magazines and media. In 2019 he was inducted into the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame for his contribution to surf culture in a career lasting 50 years.
RYAN THOMPSON
artist and educator Ryan Thompson considers the implications of a trove of handwritten apologies, this time from the archives of the Haleakala and Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Parks. Written to accompany chunks of volcanic rock and other objects that tourists have pilfered from the Islands and subsequently returned (because of bad luck or bad conscience), the notes and letters express not only a need for forgiveness but also an awareness of the writers’ relationship to the Hawaiian landscape, and perhaps also to earth itself—a taking-and-returning phenomenon that (as noted in his earlier book) is its own form of absolution and self-help. Ah Ah weaves together Thompson’s own black-and-white travelog with vibrantly colored “portraits” of the returned specimens and facsimiles of selected letters into an endearing reflection on humanity’s troubling (but hopeful) entanglement with geology, colonialism and tourism in the Anthropocene.
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PENCIL URCHIN PRESS
Risograph printed, blank greeting card featuring original artwork by Devyn Park. Printed on 80lb cover acid free cardstock in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i.
5” x 7”, includes kraft envelope
VINTAGE
Pre-1960s Czech glass mardi gras beads on original delicate twine. Assorted colorways.
LEOPOLD BANCHINI, LUKAS FEIREISS
An inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn's 1970s countercultural self-build manuals.
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HAUKE WENDLER
The Monobloc is the bestselling piece of furniture of all time: an estimated one billion copies of this white plastic chair are in circulation all over the world. This book arises from a documentary by German film director Hauke Wendler, who spent eight years filming on five continents to explore the impact of the Monobloc on a global scale. Embracing its ubiquity, it also addresses the chair’s environmental, economic and aesthetic impacts.
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TOM OF FINLAND - PEACHY KINGS
Perfect for penpals, hookups, family, and friend, Tom of Finland classic postcards are printed on heavy, matte paper.
5” x 7”, includes kraft envelope
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