I FASHION A STUDIO IN A VICTORIAN LIVING-ROOM by Peter Maybury

The front cover shows an image of page 15 from the 1953 edition of Architectural Survey magazine, courtesy of Irish Architectural Archive.

The images of page 5-21 are reproductions of Polaroid photographs taken in and around the studio between 1997 and 2003.

The text on pages 3 and 23 is an adapted excerpt from Maybury's doctoral thesis Make Ready: Productive Disruption and Interstitial Sites of Graphic Design Practice. 

Make Ready is the title given to a body of publications by Peter Maybury comprising a semi-performance audio-visual conference presentation; a survey exhibition ; and a book. 

Peter Maybury is an Irish multidisciplinary artist. His practice-based research encompasses works as an artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, publisher, writer, editor, curator, musician, and educator. He is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, London, and is a Doctoral Candidate at the Centre for Socially Engaged Practice-Based Research in TU Dublin. He lectures in Visual Communication at TU Dublin. Peter has worked extensively with artists and institutions, editors and curators on more than 200 art and architecture publications.

ALSO editions is a Dublin-based publications imprint co-ordinated by Peter Maybury. It is set to release its first four titles in 2026; two by Peter Maybury: ‘Various erasures and extractions: on memory, perception, property, recordings, and accounts of being there.’ and ‘I fashion a studio in a Victorian living-room’; ‘Apt 23 Moonlight Rose, Forevermore Rd, Co. Dublin, D01 P2M3’ by Ploypailin Fern Jitphulphon, and ‘Blackout Poetry or ‘Design is Lost’ in the pages of Domus, Design, Industrial Design, Industrijsko Oblikovanje’, a collection of works by Laura Fenner, Wayne Gannon, Orla Goodman, Robyn Murray, Meaghan O’Brien, Aoife O’Toole.

Published by ALSO editions
Edition of 50
24 pages, digital printed onto 100gsm Munken Print
165 x 195mm