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Laura Kuhn converses with Pascale Georgiev and Kingston Trinder, founding principals of Atelier Éditions, an independent publishing house and creative consultancy established in 2015. Developing collaborative projects across disciplines, Atelier Éditions offers curatorial and editorial consultation, creative direction, content creation, and print innovation, and authors archival monographs, contemporary art books, catalogues raisonné, and exploratory printed matter. 

Among their most recent books is John Cage: A Mycological Foray, developed in collaboration with the John Cage Trust, which draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused landscape of John Cage. One encounters photographs, compositions, and contemplations, all in the same unexpected fashion one stumbles upon a variety of flora and fungi species while foraging for mushrooms. Volume I intermingles Cage’s mycological-oriented Indeterminacy stories with Diary excerpts and essays as well as the complete transcript of Cage’s text work, MUSHROOMS et Variationes (1983); Volume II offers the first-ever reproduction of Cage’s portfolio, Mushroom Book (1972), authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith.