"Hortus Sanitas" by Derek Ridgers (GUCCI Limited Edition Book published by IDEA)

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Gucci is pleased to announce the latest in their series of limited edition books, which they have released on an irregular basis.
The title of this photo book, "Hortus Sanitatis," means "Garden of Health" in Latin, and is derived from the world's first natural history encyclopedia, published in Mainz, Germany in 1485.
Photographed by Derek Ridgers for Gucci's Pre-Fall 2017 collection, this photobook captures models in their everyday lives coexisting with animals such as cats and snakes.
Photographs taken at Roman sites that have remained untouched for centuries offer us a glimpse into a lost world.

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Part numberART55885W

Specification Filming locations include the ancient pharmacy Antica Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala, the beautiful library Biblioteca Angelica, home to a large number of precious ancient manuscripts, and the bookstore Antica Libreria Cascianelli, a vast archive of books and artworks.

Derek Ridgers first emerged as a photographer capturing the London punk scene in the 1970s, and is best known for his photographs of musicians, clubs, street culture and portraits of actors.
Ridgers' work in Hortus Sanitatis is imbued with the raw energy of his earlier work photographing bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Damned, the Ramones and Adam and the Ants.

Hortus Sanitatis is published in limited edition by IDEA, an independent London-based publisher, and comes in a special red cotton pouch featuring a skull and crossbones design, with gold printed detailing on the page edges and cover.

In 2016, IDEA published Epiphany, a photobook of Gucci photographs by Ari Marcopoulos.
In 2015, he released the photo book The Others by Derek Ridgers.
IDEA has also collaborated with many other photographers, including Alasdair McLellan, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Willy Vanderperre, Glenn Luchford, Collier Shore and Terry Richardson.

Publisher: IDEA

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