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After seven years, we’ve decided to stop publishing Inventory. We’re extremely grateful to everyone that has supported the magazine by advertising with us or selling it in their stores; to those of you that have purchased a copy; and to the people and brands that have helped to bring our pages to life over the course of thirteen issues.

Making this magazine has been such a valuable experience. The lessons learned, knowledge gained, and relationships cemented could never be replaced, and it’s a journey that I’ll remember forever. Due to the content and the people involved, it’s been a very personal project from the start, and I have to say the biggest thank you to my colleagues along the way. I want to acknowledge the pivotal work of Simon Roe from the beginning to the very end, as well as the roles played by Philip Watts and Owen Parrott, Stephen Mann and Anthony Hooper, Matthew Klassen and Chris Allen. Without your dedication Inventory would not have reached the same heights.

I look back on the legacy of what we’ve created with awe and pride, but the publishing landscape has shifted and it feels like the right time to move on, to conclude things with arguably our best issue, and pursue new challenges and opportunities.

Sincerely,
Ryan Willms

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Received as part of Neighbour's first delivery from the latest Lemaire collection, this shirt-cum-jacket has all the hallmarks of a warm weather favourite. Lightweight with a boxy fit, it features Levi's-esque pleats parallel to the placket, three patch pockets, an arafold collar, and a split seam hem. This looks like a lot on paper, but these details are absorbed into the pattern perfectly and the outcome feels unique yet balanced – attributes consistently found in the French label's understated designs.

—Available from Neighbour

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The Trilogy Tapes released this somewhat unexpected collaboration between Carl Gari and Abdullah Miniawy back in January. The four-track EP combines the electro-acoustic, downtempo sound of the Munich-based trio with the Sufi chanting and instrumentation of the Egyptian musician. This wasn't something I expected to hear on the London label's SoundCloud page, but once I'd listened to it all the through, I was entranced by the results.

—Available from The Trilogy Tapes

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19 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
+1 718 852 6979

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Last month, Joya, Frederick Bouchardy's Brooklyn-based fragrance company, opened their first retail location. The space in Clinton Hill combines a small shopfront with their production facility. The interior of the renovated 19th century rigging garage was devised by Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design, using floating wood and steel panels suspended from the ceiling. These separate the shop from the factory, but also create a strong connection between the two by allowing you to see behind the scenes, while perusing a selection of finished products.

—Joya Studio

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Stephen Friedman Gallery
11 Old Burlington Street
London W1S 3AQ
February 10 – March 12, 2016

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While the core of this exhibition revolves around the output of Josef Albers in the 1920s and '30s, it also includes the work of Marcel Breuer, Otto Lindig and Marianne Brandt, as a means of creating a more complete sense of the Bauhaus and its ideals. The resulting collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, furniture, ceramics, glassware and other objects is displayed alongside a series of artworks produced by Albers and his wife, Anni, between the 1940s and '70s. With two weeks of its run at the Stephen Friedman Gallery to go, this is an essential show for anyone interested in modernist art and design, as well as the unmistakable influence of the Bauhaus.

—Stephen Friedman Gallery

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After almost 12 years at the current address, Dover Street Market has just unveiled the final window display at its original London location. The store closes on Thursday, March 10th and nine days later, on Saturday, March 19th, a new chapter in the retailer's history begins. Their next home, the old Burberry building at 18-22 Haymarket, is currently being transformed and glimpses of this process can be seen via the Dispatches section on the DSM London website. The images will create an interesting juxtaposition with the finished space in three weeks time, but for now it's great to see things taking shape.

—DSM London

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"When former business and economics students Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman converted a University of Toronto dorm room into a makeshift recording studio, they did not expect their demo of moody, intimate, and unexpectedly glossy dance tracks to land in Drake's hands just days after putting them online. But the result placed them at the epicenter of a new wave of cerebral R&B.

Now, with their self-titled debut album just released on their mentor Drake's imprint OVO Sound, the pair return to the place where their collaboration and friendship began. Against the striking Brutalist backdrop of the University of Toronto's architecture, Majid Jordan reflect on their success and don an appropriately complex mix of menswear styles."

—Ssense: Majid Jordan's School of the Sublime

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This two-part collaboration between Clarks and 6876 was introduced last October with suede editions of the Desert Boot and Desert Trek. Today marks the release of their second set of shoes together: the same classic silhouettes, subtly reinterpreted in brown and black pebble leather. The co-branded models are limited to 500 pairs per style and while restraint is clearly the key here, a vegetable-tanned runner board adds something special to their premium appearance.

—Available from 6876

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Kauffman Mercantile do a fantastic job of buying items that have traditionally been harder to find in North America, and the most recent additions to that list are the Ercol bar stool and stacking chair. Made in the UK using strong Windsor wedge joints, these simple wooden designs represent some of the most beautiful seating options around.

—Kaufmann Mercantile

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5 CDs, 115 tracks
Slip, hardcover, 12 x 12 inches
88 pages, 136 B&W illustrations
Released by Dust-to-Digital

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"More than ten years in the making, this critically acclaimed box set – originally published in 2011 – features the earliest recordings of one of the most influential guitarists of the 1960s and ’70s, blues and folk pioneer John Fahey (1939-2001). The five CDs feature 115 tracks, most of which are available on CD for the first time, remastered from Fonotone owner Joe Bussard’s reel-to-reel tapes to achieve pristine sound quality. The CD set is accompanied by a book – the first ever written on Fahey – featuring a host of essays as well as a poem by Byron Coley and Douglas Blazek’s 1967 interview with Fahey, published here for the first time. Focusing on a critical early period in Fahey’s career, John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You is a challenging, engrossing introduction to a figure called 'the folk guitar-playing equivalent of William Burroughs or Bukowski' by Pete Townshend."

—Available from Artbook