Artbook at Visionaire

I had a friend who used to work for
Visionaire, and he said that they were closing or had closed, but apparently not.

This is happening at their Mercer Street Space:

From nyc.flavorpill.net
Artbook at Visionaire

when: Now through Thur 9.8 (Mon-Sat: 1-6pm)
where: Visionaire Gallery (11 Mercer St, 212.274.8959)

Advancing of the union between two culture-publishing powerhouses, Distributed Art Publishers takes up summer residence at Visionaire's Soho gallery. Together, they present over 400 titles, including limited edition collaborations edited by fashion gurus Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford, as well as a racy photographic Bible featuring Nan Goldin's Mary Magdalene and Wolfgang Tillmans' Crucifixion. The budget-friendly North Drive Press No. 2 is editor Matt Keegan's awesome box of multiples and interviews, while a set of prints by blue-chip artist Thomas Schütte caters to deeper pockets. As part of the superstar lineup, nude-model maven Vanessa Beecroft drops by the gallery to sign books on Thur 7.14. (CEK)

Note: The Artbook at Visionaire book-signing series continues with Richard Prince (TBA) and Alex Katz (Tue 8.9).

All Visionaire's design books have a specific theme for each issue. I own a book about Movement, which contains photographs and drawings of various transparencies. The transparent images create these concise systematic layers which change with each turn of a page. The current issue comes with figures that were co-designed by Kid Robot and various designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Jacobs. If you visit Visionaire's site, there is a great Flash animation of the figures, which starts off with the figure designed by Karl Lagerfeld.