Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

2023

  • We exhibited this object.

  • Work on this object began.

2024

2025

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Installation, Book Unbound

This is a Installation. It is dated 2023. It is a part of the department.


This final gallery returns you to Devlin’s studio, which is always in flux. At the center of the table is an installation of notes, mock-ups, color proofs, and page layouts Devlin and her team created in collaboration with the editors and curators while making the book An Atlas of Es Devlin. The book’s unbound pages wallpaper the room, charting connections across her work. Devlin wanted to play with the material qualities of a book, creating a tactile narrative. With die cuts, fold outs, transparencies, and mirrored papers, the book becomes a sculpture as well as a record of Devlin’s creative practice.


Please take a seat. We encourage you to flip through copies of the final book at the table’s edge.

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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