STUFF. A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

STUFF. A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

Kim Hastreiter, Jeffrey Deitch, Whitney Mallett, Carlo McCormick, Jeremy Liebman • Damiani

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ISBN-10: 8862088310 · ISBN-13: 978‑8862088312 · 2025

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Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved PAPER magazine, has spent the last 50 years amassing a vast and iconoclastic collection of stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF , chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiter’s singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens. In these pages you’ll meet Hastreiter’s amazing friends: at an all night party in the basement of an East Village church with Keith Haring; a private art sale with Jeffrey Deitch in Phyllis Diller’s kitchen; or impromptu cocktail at Trader Vic’s with Salvador Dalí and Joey Arias. STUFF is more than a memoir; it’s a loopy, joyous, chaotic ride through the last half century of cultural chaos in the greatest city on earth. Whether you are an OG or a kid, a culture vulture, artist, design buff, fashion nerd, skater, collector, chef, cinephile, New Yorker, uptowner, downtowner, out of towner, or something else entirely, STUFF will make you feel like you’re sitting with Kim in her garden high above Washington Square Park, her booming voice imploring you to pursue your life with compulsive enthusiasm. The book features an exclusive cover design by the elusive and sensational New York street artist Jim Joe, best known for designing the iconic album cover for Drake’s If You're Reading This It's Too Late .

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