this is what concerns me:

For Anthem July/August ‘07. I know the date is wrong. This is for clippy purposes.

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This summer, don’t be surprised to discover a whole new kind of well-manicured bush at the Grove in LA–in the sumptuous coffee table erotica at the new Taschen store. The 550 square foot shop, located in the center’s clock tower, will provide a shock of sexy technicolor to the shopping playground of starched white collars from the O.C. to Porn Valley.

Another retail outpost in Los Angeles ain’t no thing for power-publisher Benedikt Taschen–it’s just another notch in his beautiful belt. Taschen has come a long way from its 82 square foot comics shop in Cologne, Germany: the Grove location will be the third LA store for the best-known name in art book publishing.

For those who aren’t too embarrassed to buy their vintage porn and Dali in one fell swoop, the pristine Philippe Starck-designed shop will specialize in affordable tomes, mostly under $50 a pop. Starck calls Taschen “political” for its down-market tack on the traditionally bougie art book industry. Hopefully they’ll be keeping late hours this summer, because as any good plebe knows, there’s nothing better than winding down with free air conditioning and Inside Cuba after a long day of working for the man.

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