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Hidden below street level on Noho’s Bond Street, I nearly passed by Dashwood Books’s snug storefront. Pine-colored shelves encase a trove of art book gems that founder David Strettel and manager Miwa Susuda summoned from nooks and piles when I inquired about the titles that stand out to them. It came as no surprise, then, when Strettel noted that Dashwood will soon mark 18 years of “specializing in finding what people want,” though he admitted that the only real pattern of what people want is that “there is no pattern” — which is part of the fun. His grounding interest in photography guides the store’s focus, and they ventured into publishing books in collaboration with artists around 2008. In-store events held in the cozy back area launch each artist zine, published on a roughly monthly basis....

 

text by Lakshmi Rivera Amin