This is the first ever fully authorised book to cover Wes Anderson''s 30-year career in film, richly illustrated with photographs of never-before seen notebooks, polaroids and objects from Anderson''s archive. This is the first ever fully authorised book to cover Wes Anderson''s 30-year career in film, richly illustrated with photographs of never-before seen notebooks, polaroids and objects from Anderson''s archive, including props from Rushmore, costumes from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and signage from The Darjeeling Limited. The book features extensive interviews with some of Anderson''s long-term collaborators, such as actors Owen Wilson, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat, musician Seu Jorge and music supervisor Randall Poster; as well as an extensive interview with Wes Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process. The book also includes essays by leading film writers including Isabel Stevens (Sight & Sound), Matthieu Orlean (Cinematheque francaise) and Vincent Maluasa (Cahiers de Cinema) looking at key themes of Anderson''s cinematic work; the design and style of Anderson''s films are explored in essays by design curators like Glenn Adamson, Johanna Agerman Ross and Lucia Savi. The book accompanies the first ever retrospective of Wes Andersons work, an exhibition produced and curated jointly by Cinematheque francaise in Paris and the Design Museum in London.

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Johanna Agerman Ross is the Conran Foundation Chief Curator at the Design Museum in London where she looks after the museum's programme of exhibitions. She was previously curator of twentieth century and contemporary furniture and product design at the V&A. In 2011 she founded the international design journal Disegno.

Matthieu Orléan is an artistic collaborator at La Cinémathèque française. He is the curator of exhibitions such as: ¡Almodóvar Exhibition! (2006), Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood (2008), The Enchanted World of Jacques Demy (2013), Gus Van Sant Icons (2016).

Dr Lucia Savi is the Head of Curatorial and Interpretation at the Design Museum. She curated the V&A exhibition "Bags: Inside Out" (2020) and authored its catalogue. Savi has contributed to several exhibitions and publications. Her latest academic monograph, A New History of Made in Italy, Fashion and Textiles in Post War Italy, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

Includes contributions from Glenn Adamson, Lanre Bakare, Frédéric Bonnaud, Hadeel Eltayeb, Stéphane Lerouge, Vincent Malausa, Charlene Prempeh, Tim Marlow, Richard Round-Turner, Nicolas Saada, Leanne Shapton, Isabel Stevens.

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'Sometimes the movie knows you better than you know yourself, and you reveal your point of view about the world without ever even intending to.' - Wes Anderson

An archive is always a time-machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers of stories and the experiences of storytelling - on paper and on film. This book is dedicated to these stories and celebrates Anderson's over 30 years in cinema.

From the start of his career, Anderson has maintained a rich library of notebooks, drawings, paintings, polaroids, props, puppets, sets, and costumes from his films. The objects shown here are enhanced and illuminated by Anderson's long-time collaborators: Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat; musician Seu Jorge; and music supervisor Randall Poster. Also included: an extensive interview with Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process.

Wes Anderson: The Archives accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Anderson's work, curated by la Cinémathèque française in Paris and the Design Museum in London in partnership with Wes Anderson

Edited by Johanna Agerman Ross, Matthieu Orléan and Lucia Savi.