Features one hundred of the most spectacular interiors from across the world, spanning the entire 20th century onwards. This title includes interiors assembled by artists and fashion designers, archit
More than 75 top artists write about the artists who most influenced or inspired their own work, in an evocative collection that includes Thomas Demand''s thoughts on Paolo Uccello, Miroslaw Balka''s
Aimed at all of us who dream of injecting glamour and style into ourpersonal spaces, New Paris Style offers an exclusive insight into Parisiancreativity with hundreds of inspiring ideas to apply to ou
In grand photographs, Christoph Grill (*1965 in Austria) documents the signs of decay in the successor states of the Soviet Union and other regions in the former East Bloc. His photographs of Albania,
You don’t have to be a professional chef to make a gorgeous gourmet meal! MasterChef contestants’ dishes, exquisitely turned out under pressure, prove that any amateur cook can achieve excellence. Let
Combines authentic Indian culture and heritage with modern-day savoir faire: a lavish design extravaganza presented in 500+ pages of specially commissioned photography
Featuring the work of 85 of the great fashion photographers, drawn from the Conde Nast archives in New York, Paris and Milan, this title illustrates the early work of such celebrated practitioners as
The ideas, experiments, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionizedour understanding of the world around us. Theories, discoveries,and technologies―from relativity, the genetic code, and th
As a book on new typography with a modernist feel, this volume has a strong design message: postmodernism looks like the 1960''s, only cleaner. In fact, when it''s not looking like a Saul Bass title s
The second volume in the Skira Photography series serving as a major reference in the field. The fifty years of artistic and mass photography taken into consideration in this volume are unquestionably
"My material is light," says Helsinki School photographer Niko Luoma (born 1970), and "my process is a combination of ... calculation and chance." Inspired by mathematics and geometry, and elaborating
Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning, and the environment,landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture.Typically, as little as three percent of a project’s cons
For the past twenty-five years, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla have made their markin the fashion industry by bringing the best of traditional Indian crafts to the worldof high fashion: traveling to remo
An exhibition catalog that features an impressive retrospective, covering the last fifty years in chronological order. Don McCullin (born 1935, London) is one of the most important photographers of ou
An original and entertaining catalog for this traveling exhibition. These excellent color photographs illustrate the glass sculptures and installations by internationally acclaimed artists and designe
Goldin charts the loss of innocence through barrooms and parties on the social periphery of New York''s East Village and through the harrowing worlds of drugs and prostitution. The Ballad of Sexual De
Contemporary art in India has enjoyed a tremendous flourishing since the early 1990s, thanks in part to the country''s economic growth and the increased availability of media technology. As Indian art
An elegant and original photo book illustrating once again the excellence of products made in Italy. A follow up to Italian Touch―produced with Tod’s in 2009 and distributed with great success all ov
Home to five museums, including the Old and New Museums, the Old National Gallery, the Bode Museum, and the Pergamon Museum, Berlin’s Museum Island was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999 an
"Siragusa''s wonderful images range from rural landscapes to theater and library interiors, villa facades, and museum vaults, and when I asked myself what they all had in common, the first response th
"I am an artist whose profession is architecture," writes the renowned Berlin-based Israeli architect Zvi Hecker (born 1931). "Sketches" is a compilation of Hecker''s architectural drawings that stand
Throughout the past 15 years, Siv Helen Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf have been at the forefront of "relational design"--an architectural philosophy that combines human, environmental and methodologic
One of the pioneers in the sixties and seventies, with his unconventional, provocative works Allen Jones (*1937 in Southampton) had a major influence on the radical change that took place in modern ar
Renowned for his sophisticated ruminations on nature and artifice, character and its construction, and the transformative lens of history and nostalgia, Philippe Parreno (born 1964) created "C.H.Z." i
Since the fifties, Floris Neusüss (*1937 in Remscheid) has been investigating photography’s ability to show more than just reality. His body of work unites a sensibility for Surrealist visual concepts
American postminimalist artist Richard Tuttle (born 1941) has worked in close collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zug in Switzerland as its informal "in-house artist" for almost 20 years now. Through fra
The installations, photographs and videos of Bettina Khano (born 1972) utilize fog, mirrors, dust and light to explore the mysteries of the body''s experience of space: dizziness, gravity, anti-gravit
One of India''s most influential contemporary artists, Nalini Malani (born 1946) creates paintings, wall drawings, theatrical works, video and shadow plays. Inherited iconographies and cherished cultu
Since its inception in 1992, the Cass Sculpture Foundation has commissioned and exhibited over 400 works from important contemporary artists including Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Andy Goldsworthy, Marc
This volume is an excellent reference guide to the historical and cultural significance of Chinese toggles or zhuizi ? carved pieces of jade, ivory, bone, wood, shell and semi-precious stones used by
In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen''s first monograph, "Occupied Territory," an exploration of space as simulated experience--a sham reality, idealized and standardized. Now, Aperture is publishin
Over the past six years, Stefan Ruiz (born 1966) has gained special access to Mexico''s Televisa studios, known as "The Factory of Dreams," where nearly 50,000 hours-worth of telenovelas (soap operas)
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic, turning him and his plane--the "Spirit of St. Louis"--into instant international celebrities and launching the avia
If you’re looking for two marvellous companions, who will make you hug the page with delight, look no further than Bink and Gollie!The state fair is in town, and for Bink and Gollie – utter opposites
Having made a portrait of a blind war victim, Martin Roemers (born 1962) realized there was a tremendous potency in the image, and began to make photographs of thousands of people who had lost their e
Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden) has always dealt with the landscape. No other motif has fascinated him as much or kept him so occupied over the years: black-and-white landscapes based on images fro
Working primarily in video and sequenced slide installations, London-based artist Hilary Loyd (born 1964) portrays the modern city as a place of voyeurism, fetishism and sexual ambivalence. Here, she
Internationally renowned photographer Herlinde Koelbl (*1939 in Lindau) composes grand cycles of artistic interpretations of cultural, social, and philosophical themes. Her studies of how people in hi
Josiah McElheny explores representations of time and space through the medium of glass. Some Pictures of the Infinite looks at 15 years of his work and his ongoing investigation of 20th century concep
