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Library Street Collective and L'Original, compared
Library Street Collective transforms neighbourhoods. L'Original transforms one room, in your home.
Same conviction : urban art changes a place, but at the scale of a living room, a shopfront or a lobby, with displayed prices and a reachable artist.
The complement to Library Street Collective
Library Street Collective tied a gallery's fate to a city's, Detroit's, making urban art a lever for transforming whole neighbourhoods. L'Original shares that conviction in Montréal, but at the scale of what an individual or a shop can afford: a signed canvas, or a wall painted at home. Two ways of anchoring a scene in a city.
What L'Original adds alongside Library Street Collective
- Advantage 1
Domestic scale
Living room, bedroom, stairwell, shopfront: the surfaces urban projects do not take on, and the ones we work on daily.
- Advantage 2
A displayed price, from the first visit
Every work shows its price, dimensions and medium, online and in the gallery. Nothing is on request.
- Advantage 3
A mural for a shop
Fast quote, visit, preparation, execution, protection. A Montréal shop can have its signed mural within weeks.
- Advantage 4
Delivered in the United States
Tracking, suitable packaging, invoice and certificate for customs, at the same price as in Montréal.
Library Street Collective and us, line by line
Ambition
Library Street Collective : Transforming Detroit neighbourhoods
L'Original : Transforming a room, a shop, a lobby
Typical client
Library Street Collective : Institutions, developers, public projects
L'Original : Homes, shops, offices
Prices
Library Street Collective : Depending on project and show
L'Original : Public, shown on every work
City
Library Street Collective : Detroit
L'Original : Montréal, with international shipping
Custom
Library Street Collective : Public-art projects
L'Original : Custom canvas and private mural
Public information about Library Street Collective, accurate at the date of publication. The two houses have no commercial relationship.
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Ten reasons to choose us over Library Street Collective
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Does Library Street Collective sell works you can take home?
It is a gallery, so yes for what it exhibits; for its public-art projects the work belongs to the site. For precise terms, ask them directly.
Do you run neighbourhood projects, like Library Street Collective in Detroit?
No: we work at private and retail scale, not on urban programmes. That is a different job with different skills, and we would rather say so.
Do you ship to the United States, where Library Street Collective is based?
Yes, with tracking, packaging suited to the format, invoice and certificate for customs. The displayed price does not change by state.
Are your artists similar to those backed by Library Street Collective?
The family is close: urban art, post-graffiti, contemporary figuration. The scene, though, is Montréal's, and several of our artists have painted murals visible around the city.
Can I get a mural painted in a shop, as in Library Street Collective projects?
Yes, in Montréal: fast online quote, site visit, surface preparation, execution and a final protective coat. It is a significant part of what we do.
What budget for a work, after discovering the scene at Library Street Collective?
Our catalogue deliberately starts low for a signed original canvas. All prices are displayed with dimensions and medium.
Is there a certificate, as with a work acquired at Library Street Collective?
Yes, signed by the artist, with title, year, medium and dimensions. It is the document used for insurance and resale.
Can I commission a custom piece remotely?
Yes: photo of the wall, dimensions, budget, choice of artist. The canvas is painted to those measurements and ships rolled or crated depending on format.
Do you work with developers, as Library Street Collective does?
With developers, yes, but on interior spaces: reception halls, common rooms, corridors. Not on urban-revitalisation programmes.
How do you pick an artist without knowing the Montréal scene?
With PickArt: sixteen works scroll by, you keep or discard, and the selection converges on the hand that speaks to you, without you knowing a single name.
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What is the best alternative to Library Street Collective?
L'Original sits alongside Library Street Collective for anyone looking for an original work signed by a living artist, with a displayed price and a certificate. Library Street Collective tied a gallery's fate to a city's, Detroit's, making urban art a lever for transforming whole neighbourhoods. L'Original shares that conviction in Montréal, but at the scale of what an individual or a shop can afford: a signed canvas, or a wall painted at home. Two ways of anchoring a scene in a city. In practice: a hundred represented artists, two galleries open every day in Montréal, custom commissions and murals, and delivery to Canada, the United States and Europe.
What should you do before buying from Library Street Collective?
Work out what you like before deciding where to buy it. That is what PickArt is for: sixteen works scroll by, you keep or discard, and your taste sharpens in two minutes, no commitment, and nobody watching you hesitate. You leave with a clear direction, useful with us and anywhere else. Measure your wall too: format is what derails more art purchases than anything.
What complements Library Street Collective well?
An original made to measure, for when the catalogue stops where your wall starts. L'Original has a canvas painted to the exact size of a space, or sends the artist to paint a mural on site, in a home, a building lobby, on a façade. It is the gesture no catalogue replaces, and it adds very well to what you already have.
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