A sticker book of vintage luggage labels from the golden age of travel

This week, Letterform Archive releases a book like no other on our list. A sticker book collecting 330 vintage luggage labels from the golden age of travel, spanning from 1920 to 1970, today, “these small relics of early twentieth-century wanderlust” recall steamer trunks and intercontinental voyages by ocean liner and sleeper train. “The luggage label collection at Letterform Archive in San Francisco numbers in the thousands,” the editors write. “Many of its specimens came from a local source: San Francisco’s own historic Huntington Hotel, a luxury accommodation first opened in 1922, where a binder of treasured labels was assembled by a concierge whose name has also slipped from record. Acquired by the Archive as examples of appealing type and lettering from across the globe, these pieces of print ephemera attest to advertising’s early heyday, when stunning illustration, inventive letterforms and novel color printing made every surface—no matter how small—a vehicle for transport to a far-off land, if only in the imagination.”

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Women's History Month Staff Picks, 2026

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Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Store

Set within Boston’s iconic waterfront museum, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the ICA Store reflects the bold, contemporary spirit of its galleries with a thoughtful selection of artist collaborations, design objects, jewelry and distinctive gifts for all ages. It is a special Boston destination for art books, including exhibition catalogues, hard-to-find titles and artist monographs that extend the museum experience long after a visit. Currently, the store is featuring books and objects related to 'An Indigenous Present,' the remarkable survey of contemporary Native North American artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers and designers, conceived by Jeffrey Gibson.

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DelMonico Books

DelMonico Books publishes visually striking and award-winning books on contemporary art, photography, design and culture, working in close partnership with artists and museums in the US and abroad.
Published to accompany the traveling survey currently on view at ICA Boston, An Indigenous Present, co-published with BIG NDN Press, is a monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums. Forthcoming staff favorites include the exhibition catalog Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, co-published with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the photography monograph Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs, co-published with Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Shop By Color	Black Art & Culture	Women Artists	Illustrated Literary Classics
Danish Design	Classic Photobooks	Pop Art	Outsider Art
Avant Garde Music & Dance	Product Design Bookshelf	Performance Art	Bauhaus
Surrealism	Dada	Contemporary Figurative Painting	Modern and Contemporary Drawing
Photography: Photojournalism	Photography: Polaroids	Feminist Art	Graphic Design Bookshelf
Photography: New Topographics	Sound Art	Collage & Photomontage	Architecture: Essential Books
Urban Studies	German Expressionism	Curatorial Studies	Contemporary Sculpture
Prints & Graphics	Pacific Standard Time	Pictures Generation	Beautiful Losers
Nouveau Realisme	Sustainable Design	Films & Filmmakers	Relational Aesthetics
Conceptual Art	Lee Friedlander Library	Artists Books	Essential Photography Reference Books