Articles of interest

Occasionally, when we're browsing our inventory or adding new products to our website, we find ourselves wanting to learn more about certain items, and the people and organisations behind them. 

And every now and then we carry out some research, and write what we've discovered...

The quiet rivalry between Linotype and Intertype

From the late 1800s, Linotype pioneered the automation of hot-metal typesetting, inspiring innovators like Intertype to refine and perfect this world-changing technology.

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Tom Phillips RA: artist and magpie

Painter, printmaker, poet, composer, opera director, curator – over the course of a long and extraordinarily varied career, Tom Phillips became one of the most inventive and playful figures in British art.

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Arthur Tooth & Sons: at the heart of London's art market

A brief history of a truly influential commercial art gallery. From Victorian watercolours to modern British painting, the gallery evolved with changing tastes while helping to shape the art market itself.

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Collection of vintage Monotype posters and advertisements.

Characters of the Monotype Corporation

An influential organisation on both sides of the Atlantic, in this article we showcase some of the people who guided its typographic direction.

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Marlborough art gallery building

Marlborough: the rise and fall of a mega-gallery

In 2024, almost 80 years after its founding, the Marlborough Gallery began winding down its operation. Here's the story of how it all started, and what went wrong.

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Collection of Stedelijk Museum vintage catalogues

Twin visions: printed ephemera at the Stedelijk

How the works of Willem Sandberg and Wim Crouwel influenced the creative direction of the pioneering Stedelijk Museum.

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