An Atlas of Es Devlin is the first comprehensive study of Es Devlin, exploring her work across art, theatre, music, dance, opera, and sculpture. The book traces her creative process from sketches and miniature models to large-scale installations and stage designs, highlighting her innovative, collaborative approach in public art, performance, and high-profile cultural events worldwid
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions.
This book surveys the history and cultural meaning of funeral practices and corpse disposal. It examines how different societies have managed death through burial, cremation, sea burial, preservation, and exposure to the elements. Considering both ritual and practical concerns, it explores the symbolism of earth, air, fire, and water as enduring agents in human responses to mortality.
A series black-and-white photographs of natural elements—water, sand, and wood—rendered in a highly graphic, abstract style. Published in 1967, the images transform natural textures into evocative, almost painterly compositions. Accompanied by a preface by sculptor François Stahly and poems by Anne de Staël, the work combines photography and poetry in a reflective dialogue with nature.
This book explores the history and character of retail settings since the Middle Ages, including shops, arcades, market halls, co-operative stores, department stores, multiples, supermarkets, precincts, and malls.
This book offers an intimate look at the country’s most stylish offices, conference rooms, and dining spaces, belonging to figures such as David Rockefeller, Katharine Graham, and Halston. It highlights how each workspace reflects personal taste, from Estee Lauder’s romantic interiors to Oppenheimer & Co.’s sleek, executive designs.
Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK documents contemporary British folk and popular art. The book presents a personal selection of objects and actions reflecting ambition, humor, pathos, and resistance, offering insight into everyday life, culture, and creativity in present-day Britain.
A book about the creative life of Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day. Organised by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative life in Britain today
Home Economics explores the frontline of British domestic architecture in response to Alejandro Aravena’s theme Reporting from the Front. Curated by Shumi Bose, Jack Self, and Finn Williams, it features immersive full-scale projects by established and emerging designers proposing innovative models for contemporary homes.
I colori del ferro blends industrial materials and contemporary art, combining photographers by renowned photographers with technical macro shots of steel and industrial scenes. An essay by Umberto Eco and captions by engineer Gino Papuli provide aesthetic, technical, and conceptual insights, creating a sophisticated dialogue between industry and art.
John Cage: A Mycological Foray draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused, innermost landscape of celebrated American composer John Cage. Upon the remarkable journey with Cage, one encounters assorted photographs, compositions, and contemplations; all in the very same unexpected fashion one encounters various flora and fungi species while mushroom foraging.
Through essays, illustrations and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as an abiding metaphor for society and culture.
Cook Book collects 23 recipes by Rirkrit Tiravanija, reflecting his interactive, meal-based installations shown worldwide. Combining Thai staples and reinterpretations of European classics, the book features photography, an essay by Thomas Kellein, and an extended interview with Tiravanija, revealing his artistic philosophy. It bridges culinary practice and avant-garde art, highlighting social engagement as central to his work.
This book explores the versatility and playful nature of rubber, tracing its forms, uses, and transformations in everyday objects, art, fashion, and design—from toys and clothing to surreal works like Dali’s melting clocks. Its textured rubberized cover enhances the tactile experience, celebrating rubber’s creativity, diversity, and sensory appeal.
This book uses Thierry Ardouin’s striking images of seeds to explore their form, history, and symbolic link to human origins. Originating from an idea by Xavier Barral, it presents a collaborative project with artists, botanists, and scientists, addressing ecological concerns while highlighting seeds as “great travellers” that connect nature, culture, and our shared roots.
Squatting the real story is a 1980 compendium of articles about squatting in the United Kingdom, mainly based on projects in London. With written contribitions by Piers Corbyn, Ann Pettitt, Steve Platt and Colin Ward, among others.
Still, Life is a cookbook by British artist Joe Sweeney that blend his personal response to the restrictions of the 2020 pandemic with the tradition of still life in art
A cookbook with over 100 vegetarian recipes for the home cook from the studio kitchen of world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson.
The Ecstasy of Things explores twentieth-century objects, from handmade to mass-produced, as symbols of beauty, innovation, and cultural identity. Featuring nearly 500 photographs from global archives, it examines how product photography captured emotional and symbolic qualities, reflecting changing tastes and aesthetics. The book serves as both a design compendium and a visual history of material culture.
Over the course of forty years, tens of thousands of men and women were sent to the Narcotic Farm for rehabilitation. Two-thirds of Narco's population had been convicted of violating strict federal drug laws. The other one-third were “volunteers” who had signed themselves in for treatment.
This illustrated volume by one of Japan's tea masters displays the complexities and inspirations of the tea art form. Beginning with the 12th century origins of cha-no-yu, the tea ceremony, Tanaka traces the practice to the early Seventies. With photographs by Takeshi Nishikawa.
Not just a guidebook, this book creates a multifaceted image of 1970s America in narraitve and poems, drawings and over 150 photographs
Deidi von Schaewen’s ‘Walls’ documents hand painted advertising on walls in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s geographical coverage is noteworthy with examples from Berlin, London, New York, Paris and elsewhere in France.
This book follows the traces of Britian's ancient landscape – exploring folklore, the seasons and nature toward an optimisim for the future.