‘About Consuming Books: The Nijhof & Lee Collection’

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  This is Monocle on Design Extra.

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  It's a short show to accompany our weekly programme where we discuss everything from architecture

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  and craft to furniture and graphic design.

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  I'm Mailie Evans.

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  Today we head to the London Centre for Book Arts.

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  There, a current exhibition about consuming books, the Niof and Lee Collection,

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  showcases the importance and role of the Dutch bookstore,

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  which, though now defunct, was during its heyday, a mecca for design book lovers.

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  Monocle's Lucrezia Motta visited the centre to meet Simon Goode,

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  partner at the London Centre for Book Arts, and the exhibition's curator, Rose Gridneff.

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  Nyhof and Lee were a bookshop that were open in Amsterdam from 1988 to 2011.

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  It was a design bookshop primarily run by two partners, Frank and Warren,

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  who had an amazing collection of design publications, magazines, historical items as well.

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  They used to host lots of exhibitions and when it closed in 2011,

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  I was working at University for the Creative Arts at the time.

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  They were looking for a home for the shop stock.

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  Their official archive went to the University of Amsterdam,

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  but all of the remaining stock that was from the shop.

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  So lots of publications, magazines needed to find somewhere new to live.

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  And Warren was really keen that it went somewhere where it would be used by students.

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