Geoff Reeve (2 results)

First Edition. 30 x 30cm. Side-stapled paperback, unpaginated [tete-beche head-to-toe format, the front-to-back pagination runs as follows: 11 preliminary page strips slightly under half-size, followed by 11 leaves full size - mostly printed recto-only]. Iconic colour cover designed by Geoffrey Raymond Reeve. A scarce and very fragile samizdat-quality publication combining pop art with architecture, which includes six A4 advertising sheets (three duplicates) surveying Archigram's legacy - presumably printed post-1972 - on varying colour paper stock printed recto-only consisting of: three sheets with the slogans "anything is possible" and "It's all the same", a sheet relating to "Capsules and Pods", a sheet entitled "Amazing Archigram", and other entitled "Living City - City Interchange and Living City - Montreal Tower 1963", all with foldcrease through centre. The magazine itself has slight wear and negligible dog-earring to the edges, rear cover working slightly loose, but otherwise complete and has been protected in a green card wrap.

Card Covers. First Edition, First Printing. An offering of two exceedingly rare issues by the profoundly consequential, avant-garde architectural collective known as Archigram. Formed in the 1960's in London, its members comprised of: Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb, David Greene, and "hidden hand" designer Theo Crosby. Archigram - a conglomeration of (Architecture+Telegram) - would go on to become one of the, "most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural groups of the modern age. They created some of the 20th century's most iconic images and projects, rethought the relationship of technology, society and architecture, predicted and envisioned the information revolution decades before it came to pass, and reinvented a whole mode of architectural education and therefore produced a seam of architectural thought with truly global impact." Intended as, "a free-form magazine [it] was designed to explore new projects and new thinking which were overturning the strict modernist dictates of the 1960s." [Source: Archigram Archival Project]. Detailed descriptions: Issue No. 8 housed in a "Popular Pak"; ('Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow 'envelope' folder with pocket; 'cover' image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punchcard codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet taped shut and posted to readers. Priced at "5 shillings". || Issue No. 9 sometimes colloquially known as the "Seed Issue" with a "Free Seed Offer", 'Archi-zones' communications and landscapes. Comprising of eleven sheets measuring 400mm x 253mm, stapled on left and folded in half forming 22 'pages'. Various types, weights, colours of paper and range of one, two and three colour printing. Our offering is complete with the packet of 'Night Scented Stock' seeds, and stapled to page 11. /// Light rubbing, occasional chips/creasing along the edges of the packet housing the contents of Issue No. 8 otherwise, the issues remain in near fine condition. Rare in commerce.