Likes By Andy Spade
Andy Spade is the American entrepreneur and visionary known for co-founding Kate Spade, Sleepy Jones, and Frances Valentine. In partnership with his wife, Kate, he is responsible for creating a colorful and whimsical aesthetic that offered a refreshing change to the design world. JP Williams and Andy Spade collaborated to create a quirky and disarming selection of images that form a window into this accomplished photographer’s peripatetic mind. In this book, Andy, described by “Style Guy” Glenn O’Brien in the introduction as “bon vivant, master of drollery, messenger of the hidden punch line,” is revealed as the kind of artist that elevates the everyday into the sublime.
Andy Spade's "Likes" volume resembles the tomes of traditional dictionaries and reference literatures: those densely packed, clothbound, hardback books that have come to be recognized as the shape and weight for publications to outline systems of logic. In using the formal space of a physical book as referent and reference––self-referential to the book as a medium for meaning, reference to the virtually-mediated process of marking off the images you "like" online––Spade makes a tribute to the archival influence that prefigures and persists through our interactions with contemporary environments. Spades "Likes" asks us, in thinking through means of measuring physical and online experience, to consider the index as an invisible witness––like digital breadcrumbs in a virtual wood, we continue to seek new ways to mark where we've traveled, to hold on to what we find, and to defy the idea "you can't take it with you."
Published by Wms&Co, designed by Wms&Co. co-founder JP Williams
Part of the Wms&Co. signature line, designed by JP and Allison Williams. Explore the wide range of offerings here.
Not sold on Amazon.
422 cloth-bound pages, with an Introduction by the late Glenn O’Brien and an Afterword by JP Williams.
1,100 Limited Numbered Editions
6 1/2" x 9 1/2".
Printed in Sweden on FSC certified paper stock.
We are lifelong bibliophiles. Shelves filled with books line our studio walls and more are stacked on every surface. We admire their design, scrutinize their typography, fetishize their paper and analyze their binding. We read them for research, for inspiration, for the sheer pleasure of exploring new worlds of thought and experience.
We have curated a selection of books to offer our audience, based on our interests and yours. Most of our books are limited editions or out of print, they are seldom available in the US, and not available on Amazon.
The fact that we have now launched our own imprint seems an inevitable extension. Wms&Co. books are created in collaboration with the interesting characters, visionaries and designers we encounter. Subject matter varies wildly but is always infused with the spirit of creativity and a respect for good design.