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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...

The Mercer hotel in New York is embracing analogue pleasures, including a library curated by Dashwood Books

 The old is always the new. And that iconic beacon of culture the Mercer Hotel in SoHo, New York knows this best. In a world where there are too many screens, too many digital moments, and endless impersonal emails, The Mercer is offering us old-world charm, not least in the form of its first-ever library, in collaboration with Dashwood Books.

Text by Daniel Scheffler 

“For Hard-to-Find Photo Books

David Strettell was working as Mario Testino’s assistant in 2005 when he decided to open Dashwood, a store devoted entirely to photo books. Eighteen years later, the place remains much as it was: a garden-level shop near the Bowery with spare, blond-wood floor-to-ceiling shelves full of contemporary, vintage, and extremely limited-distribution photo books, including a first edition of Luigi Ghirri’s Kodachrome and Gabriele Basilico’s Marocco 1971. The shop also has a robust selection of limited press runs from publishers hard to find elsewhere in the States, like Germany’s Steidl, France’s Editions du Regard, and the U.K.’s...

This month, Katie Burnett releases her second book of photographs. A stylist by trade — with clients like Gucci, Burberry and Calvin Klein — Katie only began taking pictures herself two years ago, shooting self-portraits with a catalogue of props (elastic bands, packet noodles and fridge magnets) in her Brooklyn apartment. Encouraged by her friend, the photographer Paul Kooiker, this humorous black-and-white series became Cabin Fever, a book released last year. I Wash You Dry, the new follow-up published by Dashwood Books, covers similar territory as the previous book, with the introduction of the Jamaican sea....

By Zoe Whitfield