Stories and studies
The studio writes as much as it paints. Three series run in the vault: the Journal, which is fiction; Explorations, which sets out how this world works and what its words mean; and Finest Recommendations, which sends you to the painters, photographers and books the work descends from.
Fiction and studies, written from inside the studio's own world. The rest is in the vault.
The Eight Words
Deference, obedience, discipline, servitude, surrender, submission, worship, devotion. Not synonyms, but stations on a single road — what each one means, and what it costs.
A Captive's Letters
A city's keeper of records is taken by the War Queen, kept rather than killed, and goes on writing home. Eight letters, in the order they were written.
Finest Recommendations
What we would have you look at, read, and own.
The Sculptors
Bernini, Canova, Claudel, Rodin, and the Greeks who left no names — five sculptors who put the female body in the hardest material available, and where to go and stand in front of them.
The Library
The shelf to build, in the order to build it. A dozen books that turn a taste into a position.
The Painters
Five painters, four centuries, one pursuit: a single figure lit warmly against the dark.
The Photographers
Newton, Rheims, Meisel, Lindbergh, Ritts — and the difference between being looked at and permitting it.