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ChungKing Mansion Keychain

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Rock Plan’s green ChungKing keychain recalls both the notoriously nefarious multi-story residential building in Hong Kong as well as Wong Kar-wai’s hypnotic romantic comedy ChungKing Express. Paying homage to one of the esteemed director’s films, his distinct neon-tinged visuals and the chaos and mystery of the building, this keychain to the mansion captures the thrill and nostalgia of the site.

Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde

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The 1920s and ’30s were a period unlike any other in the Soviet Union—especially if you were a Russian artist making posters for the film. This collection of 250 posters shows radical experiments in graphic design, just before the rise of Stalinism (and the resulting crackdown on creativity). The text is in English, French and German; but the startling images that play with perspective, proportion, …