This week we speak with artist Michael McGregor about his book, ‘Room Service’, featuring his drawings on hotel stationery. Plus, we leaf through a magazine dedicated to street photography and Milan’s Mudec museum launches its latest biannual title. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Stack.
This week we celebrate Hotel Room Stationery, a magazine about street photography.
And we speak with a man that is considered an Italian magazine legend.
Enjoy the show.
From Midori Housing London, this is the stack.
30 minutes of print industry analysis.
And I am Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
I have a feeling that Stack listeners appreciate as much as I do the beauty of hotel stationery.
When I arrive in my hotel room, I always look out for a block of notes or any type of beautiful paper.
It is, for me, a big, big plus.
For artist Michael McGregor, it is the same.
In his beautiful book, Room Service, Michael shows us some of the illustrations he did on stationery from some of the top hotels worldwide.
From the Chateau Marmont in LA to the Hotel Maurice in Paris.
Here is Michael telling me the allure of hotel stationery.
For me, hotels are places of fantasy, of escape, of desire, and, you know, full of elegance and all.
And paper is another touch point for all of those things.
And often, I mean, for me, if I see the paper for Hotel de Maurice or Hotel de Crillon, even if you've never been to those places, you can kind of understand how magical and beautiful they really are.
It's sort of like, I don't know, I guess it's like another architectural touch point on paper.
And tell me about the book, Room Service.
So the book contains 118 kind of your drawings, and they were made between 2016 and 2020.