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PrintWorks Books
PrintWorks is a Stockholm brand that took aim at categories where design has traditionally interested no one: puzzles, chess, photo albums, playing cards, quizzes.
Things you hide in the cupboard in their standard form when guests arrive.
PrintWorks flipped them: puzzles with art motifs in a box worthy of display like a book, chess as an interior object, photo albums that do the shelf the same service as an art monograph.
The Swedish lesson is that even a banal object deserves form, and that the line between game and decoration is artificial.
The timing was precise: the renaissance of board games, puzzles as meditation for the digital generation, the return of printed photos as a counterweight to the cloud.
PrintWorks gave all these analogue comebacks a shape you needn't be embarrassed by in a flat where you otherwise guard every object.
Things for play and for memory, elevated to objects.
Shelf-worthy in the true sense: bought not for the cupboard but for the shelf.
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