Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved Paper magazine, has spent the last 50 years amassing a vast and iconoclastic collection of stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF, chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiter's singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens.
In these pages you'll meet Hastreiter's amazing friends: at an all night party in the basement of an East Village church with
Keith Haring; a private art sale with Jeffrey Deitch in Phyllis Diller's kitchen; or impromptu cocktail at Trader Vic's with Salvador Dalí and Joey Arias.
STUFF is more than a memoir; it's a loopy, joyous, chaotic ride through the last half century of cultural chaos in the greatest city on earth. Whether you are an OG or a kid, a culture vulture, artist, design buff, fashion nerd, skater, collector, chef, cinephile, New Yorker, uptowner, downtowner, out of towner, or something else entirely, STUFF will make you feel like you're sitting with Kim in her garden high above Washington Square Park, her booming voice imploring you to pursue your life with compulsive enthusiasm. The book features an exclusive cover design by the elusive, yet legendary artist Jim Joe, best known for designing the iconic album cover for Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late.
"In carving out a radically new mode of storytelling, this 448-page tome serves as both testament and beacon, a record of collaboratively-engineered creative intelligence that can guide whoever is looking to continue in its lineage. Think of it like a manager for future world building." — Whitney Mallett
"STUFF is a meteoric rush of wonder, sass, and cool—told in a torrent of sonic booms. I couldn't put it down."—
Michael Stipe
"Kim has a great eye for new talent and treats them from the get-go as the stars they will eventually turn into. Her enthusiasm makes us feel like better artists than we are." — Pedro Almodovar
"This book is a tour de force in style and creativity! There will no doubt be a room in the NY Public Library dedicated to this uniquely New York City collection." — Ed Templeton
"Kim is more of an artist than a collector. The remarkable contents of Kim's Fifth Avenue home, which you'll find in this book, should be enshrined in a museum of cultural history" — Jeffrey Deitch
Kim Hastreiter (born 1951 in West Orange, New Jersey) is an American journalist, editor, publisher, and curator. She attended the California Institute of the Arts before moving to New York to be an artist, where she has spent most of her adulthood. In 1984, she launched the legendary Paper magazine together with David Hershkovits which they sold in 2017.
