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STEDELIJK MUSEUM Amsterdam   ww.ftn-books.com has probably the largest collection of Stedelijk Museum related material in the world. Nearly a 1000 items available. Search for “stedelijk museum ” at www.ftn-books.com or click here The White Cube Revolution: Why the Stedelijk Museum Is Europe’s Most Important Contemporary Art Museum Walk into most 19th-century European museums and you’ll find dark, ornate rooms stuffed with gilt frames, velvet ropes, and an unspoken rule: art is sacred, and you are a guest who should whisper. Then walk into the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam — and understand why it broke that mold entirely, and why the ripples are still...

Jan van Toorn   For a large number of van Toorn related items please visit www.ftn-books.com or click here and search for “Toorn” Jan van Toorn is one of those designers whose work makes you rethink what a poster or a book cover is actually for. He’s often bracketed with Wim Crouwel and Willem Sandberg as one of the great postwar Dutch design figures, but he spent much of his career deliberately picking a fight with what they stood for — and that fight is the juiciest part of the story. The rebel against the grid Crouwel, nicknamed “Mr. Gridnik,” believed in cool, systematic,...