Cocoricò was pyramid-shaped club on the North East Italian coast that gave a voice to the Italian second summer of love generation and that forever subverted the rules of clubbing. A new book - E’ amore. o è follia? Cocoricò 1991-1992 - visually explores the activity and tremendous creativity of the discotheque that marked a pivotal time in the history of Italian and European music and pop culture.

Exploring a nation’s culture and aesthetics through its design and photography is what moves Japanese Avant-Garde Books, the online project that in less than a year has gathered international appraisal. Lorenzo Ottone chats to its founder and book collector Shunsuke Natsui about studying magic in Africa, exporting old Soviet texts and what makes Japanese books so unique.