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The work of the artists most associated with Minimalism, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris, bears certain hallmarks: it is three-dimensional, serial, factory-produced (or looks that way), and is often modular. While perhaps…
Modern House 3 is an overview of the most innovative houses built around the world in recent years, following the highly successful publication of Phaidon’s Modern House (1993) and Modern House 2 (2000). This book presents 33 houses in 15 countries,…
Profile is the first Pentagram book to include the design firm’s “new guard,” partners Fernando Gutiérrez, DJ Stout, Lisa Strausfeld, and Abbott Miller. The book is a unique collection of essays on Pentagram’s nineteen partners by best-selling authors,…
Based in Japan and one of an emerging generation of young, world-class architects, Shigeru Ban (b. 1957) designs and builds graceful, serene structures using modest materials such as cardboard, paper tubes, bamboo, and prefabricated wood.His buildings…
A `design classic` is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date. The collection presented in these three volumes has been…
The revelatory early photographs of the famous and enigmatic film director.
Forty-five exciting new postcards by street fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki.
A unique book that presents a wide range of images embodying the idea of reduction to a minimum to achieve clarity and simplicity, an idea which has pervaded in the conception and design of objects and buildings for millennia. The book both embodies…
Modelled on the format of Modern House, Modern House 2 and Modern House 3, Modern Japanese House is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international…
In the decades since the advent of the shopping mall, shopping has become synonymous with entertainment and the retail store a key player in establishing brand identity. In a growing trend, high-profile architects are designing provocative storefronts…
UK edition. The sequel to Nicholas, the classic adventures of the French schoolboy.
Richard Rogers is head of an internationally respected architectural practice responsible for many landmark buildings around the world and well-known for the quality of its work and its expertise in urban planning. This third volume of the Complete Works…
SAMPLE presents 100 outstanding fashion designers selected by 10 of the field’s leading professionals, including editors, stylists, designers, curators and writers. Truly global in scope, it has collected the world’s most exceptional international young…
An exploration of the influences that have shaped the Austrian Expressionist.
Striking, ambiguous images from Johannesburg-based photographer Roger Ballen.
Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world; in fact, it has rarely been as widely represented in the biennials, art fairs and exhibitions as it is now. Similar in concept, scope and structure to Phaidon`s successful volume…
An extraordinary collection of photographs by the acclaimed underwater photographer.
Born in Illinois in 1886, Edward Weston opened a studio in California in 1911 where he achieved success as a commercial photographer, making portraits in the popular soft-focus, pictorialist style of the time. By the early 1920s, Weston had become dissatisfied…
This lively and informative new title was originally inspired by the author’s Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen…
The Rose Bakery is a small Anglo-French restaurant, shop and bakery, tucked away in a street near the Gare du Nord in Paris. This book introduces this hidden gem and the philosophy and style of its creator. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs,…
Future Systems is an architectural and design practice, established in 1979, who have surprised the architectural world with their daring forms and inventive design philosophy that merges modern ideas with natural shapes and technological innovations…
Gothic & Lolita charts the current trend of Gothic fashion that has swept Japan.
The Last Supper is not only one of the most intensely dramatic episodes in the Gospels, but also has enormous symbolic significance as the origin of the central Christian ritual of the Eucharist or Holy Communion. With its large cast of characters and…
A selection of striking portraits by award-winning photographer Steve McCurry.
A gentle and unmistakably French graphic novel with text and pictures by Jean-Jacques Sempé. A glimpse of the everyday lives and secret passions of the regulars in a small Parisian bistro captured perfectly through Sempé`s perceptive illustrations and…
UK edition. The third volume of stories about the cheeky French schoolboy.