Raf Simons dedicated an entire fashion show to Saville's Factory Records archive in 2003, and a year later Saville's hometown of Manchester appointed him its creative director.
The top floor of his factory is an archive of Odry's pre-Communist past, and he speaks of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist era with bitterness.
After researching the industry by visiting factories, studios and archives, he bought the necessary equipment to install in his Milan studio and hired specialists in ceramic production, printing and decoration.
After all, creators are the most active re-users of copyright, each one of us a remix factory and a one-person archive of inspirational and influential materials.
The filmmaker, Noel Murphy, a descendant of a General Motors founder, has spent about $100,000 so far, traveling to Fuller archives and New England factory sites and interviewing Dymaxion fans.
Both a "repository and factory of stories", anecdotes are archived and everyone goes home with a happy head full of stories and ideas for the next chaotic outing.
His site attracted the attention of large archives like the Aircheck Factory, a Wisconsin-based company that licenses airchecks for commercial use, as well as independent collectors.
Most of the Strauss works that are performed today may once have existed in a slightly different form, as Eduard Strauss destroyed much of the original Strauss orchestral archives in a furnace factory in Vienna's Mariahilf district in 1907.
"The museum archives have everything about the factory," Mr. Greenstein explained.
The book blocs were on view recently in a small but potent exhibition at the Interference Archive, an intimate space in a factory building in Gowanus, dedicated to preserving texts and ephemera produced by radical activists.
