David Bowie Memorabilia
Space Oddity: David Bowie's Secret Obsession With '80s Memphis Design
By Hunter Oatman-Stanford — Remembering David Bowie, most people rightfully think of his genre-defying music and androgynous, futuristic fashion sense. But Memphis-Milano furniture? Though Bowie described his infatuation with Memphis design—and the work of founder Ettore Sottsass in particular—in the pages of “V Magazine” in 2002, most fans weren't aware of Bowie's insatiable appetite for the wild postmodern furniture. Only now is the breadth of his personal collection finally visible, as more than 100 objects go up...
Stephen M. H. Braitman on the British Invasion, from the Beatles to the Sex Pistols
By Dean Schaffer — I was a Hollywood kid. My father was a TV and radio editor in the San Fernando Valley, and he allowed me to do my first writing to review concerts and shows for the newspaper. But as a younger kid, I really hated rock ’n’ roll music and pop music, and I disliked the Beatles and all that. I have a younger sister who was a total Beatlemaniac. She started getting into the ’60s scene, but I was more influenced at that time by my father’s interest in classical music. I was, however,...