Façade (troisième partie)

More portraiture by Pierre et Gilles, of an artfully made up Iggy Pop, an assortment of club-goers –
and a characteristic shot of Karl Lagerfeld.

Façade (première partie)

Pages from Façade, a magazine published approximately twice yearly in Paris between 1976 – 1983.
Taking inspiration from Interview Magazine, Façade covered cultural high life in france, documenting night clubbing, music, fashion, and general fabulousness.

The first example shows an article about Guy Cuevas Carrion a Cuban-born writer who morphed into one of the trendiest DJs during the disco years, holding court at Club Sept in Paris. He also recorded several singles, including the legendary “Obsession”

[Please alert the editors of Room 26 if anyone makes a mix of the songs listed in the interview!]

Bikini Girl

Issue #3 of Bikini Girl (February 1979), when the L.E.S. was the Lower East Side,
and the Mudd Club was the Mudd Club.
(With paper doll cutouts of Fred and Cindy from the B-52s!!!)

The Jumble Club

The records of The Jumble Club, a group dedicated to playing whist (and *only* whist) which thrived in Glasgow, Scotland, approximately between 1799 and 1877.
The records consist of 4 ledgers containing minutes of meetings, with additional meeting minutes, inventories, insurance policy, checkbook. flyers and other related papers and ephemera.

And they came in a lovely metal coffer, complete with a set of keys, none of which fit the box lock.

Hats on a shelf; Chairs on a porch

From a series of photographs gathered by Langston Hughes of the Club Atenas in Havana, Cuba, 1931.
[More photos can be found in the Beinecke Digital Image database (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/). Search for the keywords “hughes cuba”.

[These calm, enigmatic scenes are also perfect to mark the one year anniversary of the launch of Room 26 – showing the type of curious intriguingly and beautiful material we look for in our collections.]

 

What’s for dinner, Mary?

An advertising flyer from the Dorian Book Service, which offered
gay- and lesbian-themed publications in the 1960s.

[View the large size to read the hilarious introduction –
using what can be considered today “sanctioned vocabulary”.]