Issue 214 of the prestigious Spanish architectural journal El Croquis, dedicated to the Chilean art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen, covering their work from 2005 to 2022. The monograph is subtitled 'From A to B' and features an extensive collection of their projects including cultural centers, private houses, and pavilions across Chile, Europe, and beyond. The publication includes biographical information, essays by the architects, project photographs, drawings, and construction details.

This is the official exhibition catalogue for 'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Extinction' held at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (June 16 – September 13, 2026). The catalogue presents approximately 60 silver halide photographs drawn from 13 series spanning Sugimoto's career, including Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes, Architecture, Lightning Fields, and more. The title 'Extinction' reflects both the endangered state of silver halide photography in the digital age and broader themes of human history and disappearance that run through Sugimoto's work.

This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Ettore Sottsass: Design begins where magic begins,' a large-scale retrospective held at the Artizon Museum in Tokyo from June 23 to October 4, 2026. The book surveys Sottsass's career across five sections spanning from the 1950s through the 1990s, covering his collaborations with Italian companies like Olivetti and Poltronova, his Radical Design period, and his founding of the Memphis design collective in 1981. Bilingual in Japanese and English, the catalogue features vivid imagery of Sottsass's colorful, postmodern designs and includes scholarly essays on his design philosophy.

CURVES Japan is a driving magazine/bookazine that documents an epic road trip through Japan, covering locations from Hokkaido in the north to Tokyo in the south, including Sapporo, Nikko, Takayama, Kyoto, and many more. The publication features stunning aerial and landscape photography of Japan's most scenic roads, mountain passes, and coastal routes, accompanied by bilingual text in German and Japanese. The route spans approximately 7,000 kilometers across the Japanese archipelago, structured into multiple stages (Etappen) and presented with detailed maps and GPX files for navigation.

A comprehensive collection of 107 erotic watercolor drawings by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), gathered from museums and private collections worldwide, including the notorious drawings from Weimar. The book features an introductory essay by Munich art historian Anne-Marie Bonnet tracing the conditions under which these intimate female nude studies were created during the final two decades of Rodin's life, and their influence on avant-garde art from Duchamp to Yves Klein. Originally published in German and translated by Michael Robertson, this first edition was considered groundbreaking for presenting works that were once deemed indecent and had caused scandal when first exhibited.

A new translation by Michael P. Cronin of four landmark essays by Junichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most acclaimed writers, tracing the evolution of his thoughts on Japanese culture and aesthetics. The collection includes 'Hanshin Observations' (1925), 'At Okamoto' (1929), 'Osaka and Osakans as I See Them' (1932), and the internationally renowned 'In Praise of Shadows' (1933), an ode to traditional Japanese aesthetics and the dangers posed by rapid modernization. The essays are illustrated with evocative photographs of Kyoto and Osaka by John Einarsen.

AKT Magazine Issue VI is an annual Belgian publication focused on culture and architecture, featuring profiles and projects by notable designers and architects including Leopold Banchini, Vincent Van Duysen, Vincenzo De Cotiis, Valentin Loellmann, and Studio KO. The magazine includes articles such as 'Shaping a Sanctuary,' 'The Poetic Coherense of the Whole,' 'Queen of the Uncanny,' and 'A Whisper in Clay,' among others. Published with FSC paper and printed in Belgium by Puntgraf, the magazine presents refined architectural photography and thoughtful editorial content on contemporary design culture.

AKT is an annual Belgian art and design publication featuring in-depth profiles of artists, architects, and designers. Issue V includes features on figures such as Mark Manders, Nicolas Schuybroek, Babs Decruyenaere, Joep Beving, and Leonardo Anker Vandal, among others. The magazine explores themes of visual silence, material contrast, and creative process through richly photographed editorial spreads.

AKT is an annual Belgian art and photography publication, now in its fourth issue. The cover features a striking motion-blurred photograph of a figure in an orange garment with a green-painted face, suggesting a focus on experimental and conceptual photography. Published by Jessy Van Durme and Piet-Albert Goethals, the magazine is printed in Belgium by die Keure on FSC certified uncoated paper.

AKT is a Belgian annual art and culture magazine, with Issue 3 published in 2020. The magazine covers a wide range of creative disciplines including fine art, sculpture, fashion design, architecture, and photography, featuring artists and designers such as Elvis Pompilio, Marc Merckx, Vincent Van Duysen, and others. The cover features an expressive blue-toned painted portrait in a style reminiscent of early 20th century modernism.

AKT is a Belgian bi-annual art and culture magazine subtitled 'a kind tribute', published from Kortrijk, Belgium. Issue 2 features minimalist photography and design aesthetics, with the cover depicting a small cylindrical object balanced on a human arm. The magazine explores themes at the intersection of art, body, and materiality.

A photographic work by Swedish photographer Mårten Lange exploring ancient architectural ruins and monuments, presented through atmospheric black-and-white images of classical structures, columns, and stone details. The book features cryptic, poetic notes paired with page numbers that evoke themes of memory, time, forgotten civilizations, and the ars memoriae tradition of using imaginary buildings as mnemonic devices. Published in a first edition of 800 copies with support from the Hasselblad Foundation, with a cover illustration by Magnus Gyllensten depicting an architectural floor plan.

A collection of 120 black-and-white photographic reproductions selected from 1,500 original glass plate negatives taken by landscape photographer Col. Biagio Licari, covering Taormina and its surroundings from the end of WWI through the postwar reconstruction period of the 1950s. The images were preserved and catalogued in the historical archive of Antonino Castorina, to whom Licari personally entrusted them. The book documents the beauty and daily life of the 'Pearl of the Ionian Sea' and its surroundings during a period of significant cultural growth for the hillside town of Taormina, Sicily.

A photobook by Italian photographer Chiara Indelicato focused on Stromboli, a volcanic island in the Aeolian archipelago off Sicily. The work combines original photography with archival aerial photographs, historical engravings, maps, and poetic texts in Italian and French, exploring the island's geological identity, volcanic nature, and the complex relationship between the landscape and human presence. Printed using photogravure on Favini Alga Carta paper made from algae, the book reflects an environmentally conscious production ethos.

A visitor's guide to Palazzo Butera in Palermo, Sicily, documenting the historic baroque palace and the art collection of Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi. The book covers the palace's history from 1692 to 2020, including its restoration, architectural features such as the marmorino wall finishes and a discovered Jacaranda root system beneath a glass floor, and the Valsecchi art collection now housed within. It includes floor plans, a chronology of the palazzo's ownership, and detailed photographic documentation of the restoration works.

This catalogue was published to commemorate the opening of the Kankai Pavilion (Kankai-an), an annex to Hara Museum ARC designed by architect Arata Isozaki, on the occasion of the museum's 20th founding anniversary. It documents the collection of Rokuro Hara (1842-1935), a Meiji-era industrialist who amassed traditional East Asian art including Japanese paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, and crafts. The book includes essays on the architecture of the pavilion and features highlights from the Hara Rokuro Collection, including National Treasure and Important Cultural Property works.

A collection of sixty-eight essays by Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992), published for the first time in English, exploring themes of identity, time, memory, vision, representation, and sense of place. Originally published in Italian as 'Niente di antico sotto il sole', the essays cover Ghirri's reflections on his own practice as well as the work of photographers such as Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Robert Adams, and John Gossage. Together they form both a comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography and a form of autobiography.

Aroma explores the cultural and social history of smell across different civilizations and time periods, from ancient Greece to the modern West. The book examines how odours function as building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political orders, and how olfactory meanings vary dramatically across cultures and epochs. Covering topics from the 'odour of sanctity' to the commercialization of fragrance, it maps the 'smellscapes' of different societies through anthropological, historical, and sociological lenses.

This is the official program book for Gioachino Rossini's opera 'Semiramide' performed at Teatro Massimo in Palermo during the 2025/26 season, running from March 11–18, 2026. The production, directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau and conducted by Christopher Franklin, is a co-production with the Opéra de Rouen–Normandie, featuring sopranos Vasilisa Berzhanskaya and Maria Grazia Schiavo in the title role. The booklet includes the full libretto, synopsis in Italian and English, director's notes, biographical notes, and production photographs.

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and material significance of the color black across architecture and art. It combines an essay by Mohsen Mostafavi with a newly translated text by Max Raphael (originally published in German as 'Die Farbe Schwarz' by Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984), examining black through works ranging from Rembrandt paintings to architectural projects. The volume also includes conversations with architect Peter Märkli and artist Theaster Gates, alongside rich visual documentation.

An artist catalog documenting the solo exhibition 'Truly Indispensable' by Japanese textile artist Junko Oki, held at Office Baroque in Brussels, Belgium in 2019. The book showcases Oki's mixed-media textile works combining embroidery, dyeing, and layered fabric with organic materials, displayed across gallery and exhibition spaces. It includes an artist biography, exhibition history, and full-color documentation of her tactile, raw, and expressively worn textile sculptures.

An artist monograph documenting the work of Japanese painter Shoji Asami across four exhibition series from 2017 to 2023, including 'a painter in the theater,' 'Tomorrow's Unseen Mythology,' 'September 2021,' and 'a gait without foot.' The works feature figurative oil paintings on transparent acrylic sheets and boxes, depicting ghostly human figures and dark, dreamlike scenes. The book includes an essay by art critic Takuya Nakao and was published by Tokyo gallery21yo-j in April 2024.

A foundational cookbook by Alice Waters, the celebrated chef and founder of Chez Panisse, presenting 19 culinary lessons and over 250 everyday recipes built around seasonal, local, and sustainably produced ingredients. The book is structured in two parts: 'Starting from Scratch' covering fundamental techniques and foundation recipes, and 'At the Table' offering recipes for everyday cooking across all meal categories. Waters champions a philosophy of eating locally and sustainably, shopping at farmers' markets, cooking simply, and remembering that food is precious.

This catalogue documents the third edition of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, showcasing the 29 finalists selected from over 2,500 submissions by artists representing more than 100 countries. The prize, conceived by LOEWE Creative Director Jonathan Anderson, celebrates excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craftsmanship across disciplines including ceramics, jewellery, textiles, furniture, metalwork and glassware. The book includes profiles of nominees, jury members, and an experts panel, with an exhibition held at The Sogetsu Kaikan in Tokyo.

A catalog for an exhibition titled 'Earthenware Yakishime' (土器 やきしめ), featuring unglazed fired ceramics from both ancient and contemporary sources. The catalog was held across two venues: Shibuya Kuroda Toen and Roganan (Kyobashi location), and includes works by Japanese ceramic artists such as Ezaki Issei and Uchida Koichi, as well as ancient Cypriot pottery dating to around 1000 BCE. The pieces range from small vessels and jars to large decorated jugs, showcasing the aesthetic of yakishime — high-fired stoneware without glaze.

This is an exhibition catalogue for 'Bezoar,' a show by Amsterdam-based photographer and artist Charlotte Dumas, presented by Fondation d'entreprise Hermès from August 27 to December 29, 2020. The exhibition centers on three video works by Dumas exploring the relationships between animals and humans in contemporary society, alongside photographs, objects, and textile installations. A bezoar—a stone-like concretion formed in animal stomachs—serves as the conceptual anchor, symbolizing the coexistence of horses and humans and the transitory nature of life.

A poetry booklet published by Leeum Museum in Seoul that pairs poems with artworks in the museum's collection, offering visitors an unconventional way to experience the displayed works. It includes poems responding to specific artworks such as a Joseon Dynasty White Porcelain Jar and Mark Rothko's 'Untitled' (1969), with texts by writers including Han Kang. The booklet uses poetry as a bridge between the viewer and the artwork, encouraging slow, contemplative engagement with both the visual and literary forms.

A charming miniature book that gathers cat names from history, literature, the local vet, and the alley, compiled by the pseudonymous Felix Furbelow. The book includes lists of cat names alongside quotes about cats from notable figures such as T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, and others. It was set in hot-metal Monticello type by the Sun Hill Press in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, with a letterpress-printed cover design by Elisabeth Hyder.

A limited edition photography book (edition of 800) by Chinese photographer Lin Zhipeng, known by his alias No.223, published by Tokyo-based Akio Nagasawa Publishing on June 4, 2025. The book features intimate portrait and figure photography of male subjects, interspersed with still life images of natural objects, flowers, and textiles. The work reflects Lin Zhipeng's signature aesthetic exploring themes of masculinity, sensuality, and the body through a candid, personal lens.

A limited edition photography book (800 copies) by Chinese photographer Lin Zhipeng (No.223), shot in Paris in September 2023. The work explores themes of forbidden love and sensuality through intimate portraits of models in Parisian settings, with a cross-cultural collaboration involving curator Anna Mistal and graphic designer Joanna Starck. The book includes a conversation between the artist, curator Anna Mistal, and publisher Akio Nagasawa.

This book presents a collection of photographs by Chinese photographer 223 (Lin Zhipeng) published in May 2012 by Taiwan's Revolution Star Publishing and Creation Co., Ltd. It contains artistic portrait and fashion photography with a distinctive editorial style.

Quintet Curation Edition #12, titled 'Emotional Rescue,' is a Japanese contemporary art magazine featuring works by five artists — Yuta Niwa, Mio Yamato, Yuta Otsuno, Maki Shimezaki, and an anonymous photographer. The publication explores themes of human emotion, spiritual renewal, and the grotesque, drawing connections between traditional Japanese painting techniques and contemporary expression. The bilingual (Japanese/English) publication features paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptural works in a richly designed format.

A Japanese independent art zine (Edition #4) themed 'Draw It Extreme!' featuring five artists working across drawing, calligraphy, graphic design, painting, and photography. The publication includes works ranging from abstract ink splatter drawings and aerial city photo collages to street photography documenting urban construction sites. The curatorial essay references anthropologist Tim Ingold's concept of 'lines' as a framework for understanding the artists' practices.

This is the first annual membership guide produced by Soho House for 2026, serving as a comprehensive handbook for Every House members. It covers all global Soho House locations across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia — including new openings such as Soho House Tokyo, Barcelona Pool House, and Soho House Manchester — alongside member events, health clubs, dining, bedrooms, and amenities. The guide functions as both a practical directory and a aspirational lifestyle publication, showcasing the brand's design aesthetic and hospitality offering across more than 50 clubs worldwide.

A landmark novel of Russian literature in which the devil arrives in Soviet Moscow accompanied by a retinue including a naked witch and a talking black cat, wreaking havoc in a city that refuses to believe in God or Satan. The novel interweaves a satirical portrait of Soviet life with a retelling of the story of Pontius Pilate, and a love story between the Master, a persecuted writer, and Margarita. Originally suppressed and published only in censored form in the 1960s, this Ardis/Overlook Press edition was the first to contain the author's full text, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor.

An art catalog/monograph featuring the works of Japanese painter Okamoto Yasuaki, who was born in Nagasaki and has worked internationally in London, Barcelona, New York, and Spain. The book presents multiple series of his paintings including 'Camouflage Fish School' (保護色魚群図) and 'New Era Garbage Period' (新生代ゴミ紀), featuring highly detailed surrealist paintings combining marine life, ecology, and social commentary. The artist is known for intricate, layered compositions depicting underwater scenes, environmental themes, and fantastical imagery.

The Cat Inside is William S. Burroughs's moving and witty discourse on cats, combining deadpan routines and dream passages with a heartwarming account of his unexpected friendships with the many cats he has known. It also serves as a meditation on the long, mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts, which Burroughs traces back to the Egyptian cult of the 'animal other.' Originally published as a limited-edition volume of 133 copies by The Grenfell Press in 1986, this Penguin edition was first published in 1992.

The Western Lands is the final volume of William S. Burroughs' trilogy, preceded by Cities of the Red Night (1981) and The Place of Dead Roads (1984). Drawing on ancient Egyptian mythology and the concept of the afterlife, it is described as a profound meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death — a 'Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.' The novel blends Burroughs' signature experimental prose with themes of immortality, control, and the journey through death.

A comprehensive course on hypnotism described as 'the most perfect, complete, easily learned' in the world. The book covers topics including magnetic healing, telepathy, mind reading, clairvoyant hypnosis, mesmerism, animal magnetism, thought transference, and personal magnetism across 25 structured lessons. It appears to be a reprint of a historical text on hypnotism and related pseudosciences.

The Law is an 1850 political essay by French economist Frédéric Bastiat, translated by Patrick James Stirling. Written two years after the third French Revolution and shortly before Bastiat's death from tuberculosis, the essay argues against the perversion of law into a tool of plunder and advocates for individual liberty, property rights, and limited government. This is the first edition of a 2022 reprint by Spanish publisher King Solomon, based in Oviedo, Asturias.

A short literary essay by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck about the charming coastal town of Positano on Italy's Amalfi Coast, originally published in Harper's Bazaar in May 1953. The book recounts Steinbeck's journey to Positano, his impressions of Italian traffic, local characters, and the unique atmosphere of the village. This edition is illustrated with watercolor paintings by Ottavio Romano and published locally in Positano.

A collection of texts by Domenico Rea (1921-1994), one of Italy's greatest 20th-century authors, describing his personal itinerary through Naples. Starting from Rione Sanità and traversing the city center to Forcella, the mostly unpublished essays vividly portray places, characters, and historical situations in a realistic and non-folkloric manner. The volume is edited by Vincenzo Salerno, with a note by writer Angelo Petrella and a memoir by Rea's daughter Lucia Rea, and includes black-and-white photographs by Gaetano Balestra.

A New York Times bestselling business book by Danny Meyer, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack, exploring his philosophy of 'enlightened hospitality' and how it drives business success. The book blends memoir with business advice, detailing the behind-the-scenes history of Meyer's most famous restaurants including Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Eleven Madison Park. Meyer argues that prioritizing hospitality — for employees, customers, and community — is a transformative strategy applicable to any business or organization.

Unreasonable Hospitality tells the story of how Will Guidara transformed Eleven Madison Park from a struggling two-star brasserie into the best restaurant in the world by delivering extraordinary, over-the-top hospitality experiences. The book shares leadership and business lessons about creating a people-first culture, giving more than expected, and elevating ordinary transactions into unforgettable experiences. While rooted in the fine dining world, its principles are presented as universally applicable to any industry or organization.

A memoir by Keith McNally, the London-born restaurateur behind iconic downtown New York establishments including Balthazar, Minetta Tavern, and Pastis, dubbed 'The Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown' by The New York Times. The book chronicles his life from working-class roots in London's East End through his rise to fame in the New York restaurant world, touching on his health challenges including a 2016 stroke, two marriages, friendships with luminaries such as Oliver Sacks and Anna Wintour, and his famous contretemps with James Corden. Praised by figures including Anna Wintour, Martha Stewart, and Padma Lakshmi, it is described as witty, irreverent, and surprisingly moving.

A collection of games and experiments conceived by Belgian-German artist Carsten Höller, requiring no equipment to play. The second revised and expanded edition features games for solo play, pairs, and multiple players, illustrated with photographs by various artists. Edited by Stefanie Hessler and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the book presents Höller's playful and experimental approach to social interaction and self-experimentation.

A comprehensive survey of modern Japanese printmakers spanning multiple generations, featuring 43 artists including Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara, and the Yoshida family. The book examines the sōsaku hanga (creative print) movement and its international impact, with biographical essays and reproductions of works in various print media including woodblock, lithograph, screenprint, and stencil. Published with support from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, it serves as both an art historical reference and a visual celebration of Japanese printmaking traditions.

A collection of woodblock prints (hanga) by the celebrated Japanese artist Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), drawn from the collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingei-kan) in Tokyo. The book showcases Munakata's bold and expressive woodblock print style, featuring Buddhist figures, animals, and other subjects rendered in his distinctive energetic carving technique. The volume is organized into thematic sections and includes both black-and-white and color reproductions of works mounted as hanging scrolls and panels.

Odalisque is a Swedish luxury fashion and culture magazine. Issue 15, themed 'Alchemy of Fates' for S/S 2025, explores how creativity and action can reshape destiny through fashion, art, music, and culture. The issue features editorial fashion photography, interviews with artists such as Liselotte Watkins, features on creative collectives like Services Généraux, and discussions on sustainability in fashion design.

Tokyo Weekender is an English-language lifestyle magazine based in Tokyo covering Japanese culture, entertainment, fashion, and food. This Summer 2026 issue features a cover story on actor Show Kasamatsu, profiles on entertainer-turned-producer Megumi and table tennis champion-turned-actor Koto Kawaguchi, a fashion spread on Minami Studios designer Kai McKenzie, and an interview with photographer/director Mika Ninagawa. Additional content includes restaurant features and style coverage rooted in Tokyo's contemporary scene.

A photography book by Russian fashion designer and artist Gosha Rubchinskiy, featuring black-and-white and color photographs documenting youth culture, post-Soviet architecture, ruins, and portraits. The book combines documentary-style street photography with fashion imagery, depicting young men, crumbling classical structures, and urban landscapes that reflect the aesthetic world of Rubchinskiy's creative vision. The title 'Сегодня' means 'Today' in Russian, suggesting a contemporary snapshot of a particular cultural moment.

This is the first volume (第一回配本) in the 写真時代文庫 (Shashin Jidai Bunko) series by the legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. The book contains black-and-white photographs of women in various states of undress, characteristic of Araki's intimate and provocative photographic style. It also includes text sections and an interview with 堀妙子 (Hori Taeko), discussing topics ranging from love to Araki's photographic philosophy, priced at 980 yen.

This is an exhibition catalogue for Daniel Brush's show 'Thinking About Monet' held at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Gallery 3 in Tokyo from January 19 to April 15, 2024. It explores Brush's metalwork art inspired by Monet's use of light and color, featuring engraved aluminum pieces that capture the Impressionist painter's luminous qualities. The catalogue includes essays by jewelry historian Vivienne Becker, Impressionism art historian Marianne Mathieu, and a foreword by Van Cleef & Arpels President and CEO Nicolas Bos.

A limited edition collection (250 copies) of drawings by Luis Mendo, created between 2022 and 2023, featuring works made digitally on an iPad Pro using Procreate with oil, ink, watercolor, and pencil brushes. The book showcases a diverse range of subjects including portraits, animals, urban scenes, and figure studies, printed on Japanese cotton paper and Ековуе light cream rough paper, with printing done in Tokyo, Japan. The artist's introduction describes the works as a miscellaneous collection drawn from both premeditated intentions and spontaneous observations from street life and online sources.

An art book showcasing the illustration work of Luis Mendo (b.1969), a Spanish-born illustrator based in Tokyo, focusing on his romantic and whimsical depictions of city life. The book is organized into sections covering cityscapes, city scenes, city lights, and domestic life, exploring urban romance through his distinctive 'digital analog' style that combines digital tools with the tactile quality of hand-drawn illustrations. This appears to be a catalog accompanying an exhibition held at Groundseesaw Seochon, published bilingually in English and Korean.

A collected edition of selected comics and stories from MundoMendo.com, covering the first year of Luis Mendo's online membership program (September 2024–2025). The book documents the life of Mendo, a Spanish-born illustrator and writer based in Japan, with carefully revised and adapted content for the printed page. It is a limited first edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies, with a foreword by Craig Mod, printed in Miyoshi, Japan.

A two-volume set examining the relationship between celebrated 20th-century artist Isamu Noguchi and Greece, the Mediterranean country he visited regularly for decades. The publication explores the influence of Greek culture on Noguchi's work and his metamorphosing identity through engagement with multiple cultures, featuring previously unseen letters, photographs, and sketches from the Noguchi Archive. It also covers Noguchi's creative community including Buckminster Fuller and Martha Graham, while contemporary visual essays reinterpret his enduring legacy across today's design and art practices.

A Sculptor's World is Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, republished by Steidl in a second edition (2015), with a foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. The book chronicles Noguchi's life and artistic journey, from his time as Constantin Brancusi's studio assistant in Paris to his emergence as a central figure in twentieth-century art. It covers his wide-ranging work including sculpture, garden design, architectural projects, playgrounds, lamps, theater set designs, and public installations, illustrated with 13 color and 255 black-and-white plates.

A compact monograph on Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933), one of the pioneering figures of modern architecture, best known for his essay 'Ornament and Crime' and his rejection of decorative excess. The book covers his major works including the Café Museum, Kärntner Bar, Steiner House, Villa Müller, and Josephine Baker House, among others. Published as part of TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series, it includes photographs, floor plans, and contextual essays examining Loos's radical influence on 20th-century architecture.

A scholarly examination of Marcel Breuer's institutional architecture, covering his major works including Saint John's Abbey, UNESCO headquarters, and the Whitney Museum. Drawing on newly digitized archives from Syracuse University, ten chapters and six visual portfolios by leading scholars interpret Breuer's corporate headquarters, research labs, campuses, churches, housing complexes, and city plans. The book explores how Breuer's modernist vision shaped the institutions of global postwar society during the 1960s and 1970s.

Hotshoe International Issue 203, 2019 Vol. I, themed 'Southern', is a photography publication focusing on the American South as the country's most culturally complex region. It features work by twelve photographers including Alec Soth, William Christenberry, Susan Lipper, Mark Steinmetz, and others, exploring Southern life, landscape, and culture. The issue includes an essay by Richard McCabe, a 'Crude Metaphors' section by Adam Ganz and John Chiara, and book reviews.

A classic instructional book by Italian designer Bruno Munari that explores the structure and visual logic of trees, teaching readers how to observe and draw them through systematic analysis of branching patterns. Originally published in 1978, the book uses minimal text and elegant illustrations to demonstrate how branches progressively diminish in thickness, and how natural forces like lightning and wind alter a tree's form. Part of Corraini's Workshop series aimed at adults and children, teachers and students working together.

A collection of Karl Bloßfeldt's iconic close-up botanical photographs, presenting highly magnified images of plant forms that reveal their sculptural and architectural qualities. The book includes an essay by Gert Mattenklott and features bilingual (German/English) captions and text. Bloßfeldt (1865-1932), a pioneer of Neue Sachlichkeit photography, originally created these images as teaching aids, though they were celebrated as groundbreaking works of art upon publication in 1928.

A comprehensive collection of Karl Blossfeldt's iconic botanical photographs, featuring his strikingly austere close-up images of plants magnified up to 45 times. Blossfeldt (1865–1932), a professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin, originally created these images as teaching tools to reveal the architectural and sculptural qualities of natural forms. The book includes plates, botanical notes by Hansjörg Küster, and biographical information, presenting works that influenced both the Surrealist and New Objectivity movements.

The Travel Almanac issue 25 is a Fall/Winter 2024 milestone edition celebrating 25 issues of the publication. It features interviews and photo essays with notable figures including Michael Stipe, ASAP Rocky, Kara Walker, Ever Anderson, and supermodels Irina Shayk and Mona Tougaard, alongside travel excursions to destinations such as Svalbard Norway, Naoshima Japan, Rome Italy, and Copenhagen Denmark. The issue blends high fashion photography with travel reportage and cultural exploration.

Issue 20 (Spring/Summer 2022) of The Travel Almanac, a high-end travel and culture magazine featuring interviews and photoshoots with notable figures including Ai Weiwei, Grimes, Kaia Gerber, Francis Kéré, and Samuel Ross. The issue's theme is 'minutiae,' exploring awareness and gratitude for small details in everyday life. Content spans conversations, studio visits, and travel excursions across locations including Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, and the United States.

Issue 19 of The Travel Almanac, a Summer 2021 publication themed around utopia, featuring cover subject Walter Hood (landscape architect). The issue includes guest features with figures such as Laurie Anderson, Ben Gorham, Ottolinger, and Eartheater, alongside excursion stories covering locations including Moscow, Cuba, Siberia, London, and Arizona. Photography, fashion editorial, and cultural journalism are woven together in a high-quality, design-forward format.

The Travel Almanac is a high-end travel and culture magazine featuring interviews with notable figures including actor Matt Dillon, artist Anne Imhof, musician Laura Lee, and entrepreneur Ronald Akili. This Autumn/Winter 2019 issue explores the concept of geographical syndromes — psychological phenomena triggered by encounters with iconic places like Florence, Bali, Lima, and Stockholm. The magazine combines fashion editorials, travel photography, and cultural commentary with contributions from photographers including Philippe Jarrigeon and fashion direction by Clare Byrne.

The Travel Almanac issue 14 (Spring/Summer 2018) explores the theme of borders and boundaries through travel essays, interviews, and photography. Guests featured include musician serpentwithfeet (cover star), skateboarder Lucien Clarke, photographer Harley Weir, DJ Umfang, and architect Shohei Shigematsu. Excursion pieces cover Crimea, the Tijuana/San Diego border, Israel, Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales, and other destinations where borders shape human experience.

The sixth edition of The Travel Almanac, Autumn/Winter 2013, featuring Matthew Barney on the cover. The issue includes conversations with notable figures such as Linder Sterling, Juergen Teller, Angelika Taschen, Shintaro Sakamoto, Riley Keough, and Ian Schrager, alongside travel excursions and curated souvenirs. The publication blends art, culture, and travel through interviews, photography, and destination features.

This is the inaugural auction catalogue from ArtX Auction, a Tokyo-based auction house, for their first sale titled 'The Perennial Curation' held on March 16th, 2024 at Ogasawara Hakushakutei in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The catalogue spans works from ancient artefacts through Pre-Raphaelite and modern art, including pieces such as an illustrated letter by Lucian Freud to Lady Caroline Blackwood. The publication is bilingual in Japanese and English, and includes information about a charitable partnership with Global Coralition, with 3% of hammer fees donated to marine environment conservation.

This book explores the urban identity of Trieste through its 19th-century architectural heritage, examining the rich symbolism embedded in the city's buildings, facades, statues, and frescoes. Possamai decodes a dense network of mythological symbols, metaphors, and allegories — drawn from Mercury, Neptune, Ulysses, Jason, and Venus — that reflect the city's secular, civic, and entrepreneurial identity. The book also serves as a guided itinerary through key buildings and landmarks including Palazzo Revoltella, Palazzo della Borsa, Teatro Verdi, and many others.

A polemical pamphlet originally published in French as 'Contre Venise' by Éditions Gallimard in 1995, translated into Italian for this 2022 reprint. Régis Debray delivers a bitter and paradoxical critique of Venice — attacking the intellectuals and tourists who have transformed a once-living city into a picturesque museum, dead to spatial exploration and contemporary life. The volume includes a new preface by the author and an additional text by Gianni Montieri, who explores how the city's condition remains just as relevant twenty-five years after the original publication.

This Italian-language book explores Venice as a cultural symbol and a recurring presence in people's dreams, examined through a Jungian psychoanalytic lens. The author collected around a hundred dreams featuring Venice from various sources, analyzing the city's oneiric symbolism and what it reveals about the inner lives of those who dream of it. It is described as an immersion into the depths of the psyche that offers a unique and original perspective on Venice as a symbol-city.

This is the Italian edition of Simone Weil's celebrated essay 'The Iliad, or the Poem of Force,' originally written between 1936 and 1939 and published in 1943 in the French journal Cahiers du Sud. Weil argues that the true subject of Homer's Iliad is not heroism or divine intervention, but Force itself — a power that transforms and dehumanizes both those who wield it and those who suffer it. The edition includes an introduction by Alessandro Di Grazia, a biography of Simone Weil, and a list of Italian translations of her works.

A debut poetry collection by Annabelle Blythe, divided into two sections: 'the unbearable' and 'the beautiful.' The book combines poems and reflective practices exploring themes of vulnerability, identity, love, aliveness, and the courage to be truly known. It is dedicated 'for the parts you've kept hidden,' suggesting an intimate engagement with the hidden self and human experience.

A catalog of Buddhist paintings from the collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (日本民藝館), compiled by Soetsu Yanagi. The book features reproductions of medieval and early modern Japanese Buddhist paintings including deity figures, deer mandalas, and priest portraits, along with an essay on the acquisition history of a Tane Amida Triad embroidered painting. It documents Yanagi's personal collection of Buddhist art gathered from the late Meiji period onward.

A collection of 101 darkly comic single-panel cartoons by Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson, featuring his signature minimalist stick-figure style. The humor is deliberately crude, offensive, and absurdist, covering topics such as death, disease, infidelity, and social taboos. Originally published in 2016, this is a reprint edition published in Reykjavík, a UNESCO city of literature.

A two-volume artist book presenting 724 gouache, tempera, ink, and graphite drawings made by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco in Tokyo and Acapulco across 33 notebooks. Volume 1 reproduces 490 drawings from 24 notebooks (November 30, 2021–April 20, 2022), while Volume 2 reproduces 234 drawings from 9 notebooks (November 9, 2021–March 13, 2022). The works are reproduced at their original size and housed in a slipcase, designed by Arno Baudin and printed in Bruges, Belgium in a first edition of 2,000 copies.

A comprehensive exploration of interaction design featuring interviews with over 40 influential designers, technologists, and innovators including Doug Engelbart, David Kelley, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Will Wright. The book traces the history of interaction design from the mouse and desktop computing through mobile devices, the internet, and beyond, combining personal narratives with design theory. It includes 10 thematic chapters covering topics ranging from play and services to multisensory design and futures, with a foreword by Gillian Crampton Smith.

A diary kept by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky from January 1996 to January 1998 documenting the making of his debut feature film π, when he was a 27-year-old struggling filmmaker. The New & Expanded Edition, published by A24, includes the original diary entries, behind-the-scenes photographs, and the film's screenplay. The book offers an intimate look at guerilla filmmaking and the creative process behind one of independent cinema's landmark films.

A collection of hundreds of Japanese death poems (jisei) translated into English, written by Zen monks and haiku poets in their final moments. The book explores the centuries-old Japanese tradition of writing death poems, examining attitudes toward death in historical and present-day Japan, with poems organized in two sections: death poems by Zen monks and death poems by haiku poets. Each poem is presented with biographical context, commentary on the circumstances of the poet's death, and romanized Japanese text.

Notebook is a film magazine published by MUBI, the curated streaming platform for cinema. Issue 8, titled 'Shoestring Spaghetti,' features content related to cinema and film culture, with the cover depicting what appears to be Charlie Chaplin in a classic scene from 'The Gold Rush' (1925). The magazine includes editorial, critical, and visual content about films and filmmaking, printed in Italy by Longo AG and first published in 2025.

MUBI Notebook is a film culture magazine published by the streaming platform MUBI, with Issue 7 themed around 'The Unfilmable' — exploring cinema that never was, or should have been. The issue features contributions from filmmakers, critics, and artists including Yoko Ono, Guy Maddin, Mark Leyner, and others, examining topics such as censorship, frame rates, UFOs on film, and the limits of what cameras can capture. The cover features photographs by Deborah Stratman from her 'Whiteouts' series.

Notebook is MUBI's print magazine, with Issue 6 themed around youth and cinema. The issue features articles on filmmaking, children's cinema, adolescent expression, bootleg culture, digital de-aging in Hollywood, and historical photography of young filmmakers' foundations in New York. It includes illustrated spreads, children's artwork responses to films, and critical essays on cinema by various contributors.

Notebook is a print magazine published by MUBI, the curated film streaming platform, dedicated to cinema culture and film criticism. This issue (Issue 5) features articles on filmmaking techniques, a look behind the scenes of Alejandro Jodorowsky's unmade version of Dune, essays on topics ranging from California's Owens Valley to homemade film emulsion, and a section called 'Printed Cinema.' The magazine blends film theory, photography, and visual art in a richly designed format.

Notebook is MUBI's print film magazine, with this issue (Issue 4) dedicated to the theme of sound in cinema. The issue explores soundscapes, film sound design, Foley art, music accompaniment for silent films, and audio description, featuring contributions from filmmakers, sound designers, and composers. Content includes features on Skywalker Sound, a survey of filmmakers on sound, visual music pioneers, and a catalog from The Foley Lab in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Notebook is a film magazine published by MUBI, with Issue 3 themed around two powerful concepts: weather and sabotage, exploring how these elements relate to cinema and filmmaking. The issue covers topics ranging from filmmaking in extreme conditions like Antarctica, to analysis of the Hollywood content pipeline, Indian cinema history, and film preservation. It features critical essays, conversations, and visual art exploring the intersection of cinema, environment, and disruption.

MUBI Notebook is a cinema-focused print magazine published by the streaming platform MUBI. Issue 2 centers on the theme of travel and cinema, exploring how film transports audiences to new places and realities, featuring contributions on topics ranging from Grand Central Terminal in movies to a journey through Germany, Cairo in Egyptian cinema, and filmmaker Danny Lyon's do-it-yourself distribution. The issue includes photography, essays, illustrated diaries, and a conversation between Ukrainian artists reflecting on film and art during wartime.

A graphic novel by Frank Miller featuring a dishonored 13th-century samurai reborn into a corrupt, futuristic New York City of the 21st century. The story follows the ronin's quest for redemption as he faces the reincarnation of his former master's killer, the ancient demon Agat. Originally published as a six-issue series in 1983-1984, with paints by Lynn Varley and lettering by John Costanza, this collected edition represents the eighth printing.

A landmark graphic novel by Frank Miller, with inks by Klaus Janson and colors by Lynn Varley, depicting a older Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement to battle crime in a dystopian Gotham City. The story is told across four books: The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Triumphant, Hunt The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Falls. This is the first printing hardcover edition, with an introduction by Alan Moore, priced at $19.95.

Batman: Year One is a landmark graphic novel that retells the origin story of Batman and his first year fighting crime in Gotham City. Written by Frank Miller and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli, it was originally published in four issues in magazine form in 1986-1987 before being collected in this hardcover edition. The book is considered one of the most influential Batman stories ever told, presenting a gritty, realistic take on the character.

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes is the first volume of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series, collecting issues #1-8 of the original run. It introduces Morpheus, the King of Dreams, and his journey to reclaim his lost tools of power after decades of imprisonment. This 30th Anniversary Edition features illustrations by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, with an introduction by Patrick Rothfuss.

Kingdom Come is a landmark DC Comics Elseworlds graphic novel written by Mark Waid and painted by Alex Ross, set in a near-future world where a new generation of uncontrollable superheroes has emerged. The story follows Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and other classic heroes as they come out of retirement to restore order, ultimately facing a moral and physical clash between generations of metahumans. Alex Ross's photorealistic painted artwork elevates the storytelling, making it one of the most celebrated works in superhero comics.

A deluxe hardcover collection of the classic JLA storyline 'Tower of Babel,' written primarily by Mark Waid with art by Howard Porter and others. The story centers on Batman's secret contingency plans — the 'Batman Protocols' — designed to neutralize each Justice League member, which are stolen and used against the team. This edition collects JLA issues 15-21, 32-33, and 43-46, and includes an introduction by Mark Waid.

This is a two-part publication set by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, comprising a McSweeney's monograph with introduction and interview by Sarah Vowell, and a companion portfolio package titled 'The Berlin Years' containing 32 loose-leaf, full-size, high-quality reproductions suitable for framing, plus a 32-page scrapbook. Dzama's distinctive work features ink, watercolor, and root beer drawings populated by hybrid human-animal figures, monsters, demons, and gun-toting characters rendered in muted browns and greens. The artist, born in 1974 in Winnipeg, was a founding member of the Royal Art Lodge collective, and his work blends dark narrative folklore with a deceptively charming, understated style.

A handmade artist's notebook/sketchbook by Marcel Dzama, a Canadian artist known for his whimsical and dark illustrations. McSweeney's included it with the 2008 publication Marcel Dzama: The Berlin Years. The book contains original drawings, collages, song lists, comic strips, and mixed-media pages featuring recurring characters including 'Frederick and Friends' — anthropomorphic creatures, masked figures, and surreal characters — alongside references to the Royal Art Lodge, James Joyce, and Leonard Cohen. The notebook serves as both a personal journal and an elaborate artistic creation, mixing autobiography with fiction, poetry, and visual storytelling.

An exhibition catalog published on the occasion of Marcel Dzama's show 'Crossing the Line' at David Zwirner Hong Kong (January 22–March 9, 2019). The book features Dzama's distinctive gouache, ink, and graphite works on paper, populated with theatrical figures, masked characters, archers, and fantastical animals drawn from pop culture and art history. It includes a conversation between Marcel Dzama and editor/writer Laila Pedro exploring his artistic influences, including early cartoons, silent films, and literary references.

An exhibition catalog produced for Marcel Dzama's show 'Behind Every Curtain' at David Zwirner, New York (February 17 – March 19, 2011). The book features Dzama's characteristic ink and watercolor illustrations on lined and graph paper, depicting masked figures, dancers, chess-like characters, and theatrical scenes rendered in his distinctive sepia and black palette. The works blend narrative storytelling with surreal imagery, including storyboard-like sequences, costumed performers, and cryptic Spanish-language text.

This catalogue reexamines Ishimoto Yasuhiro's landmark photographs of the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, originally published in 1960 with essays by Walter Gropius and Tange Kenzo. Author Yasufumi Nakamori argues that Tange played a significant role in selecting and cropping Ishimoto's images to advance a modernist agenda and support Japan's tradition debate (dento ronso). The book presents Ishimoto's original photographs in their entirety, revealing his unmediated vision of Katsura and exploring the relationship between photography, architecture, and cultural identity in postwar Japan.

A monograph by Japanese artist Teppei Takeda featuring his 'Paintings of Painting' series, in which he paints portraits of famous historical paintings using thick, gestural brushstrokes of acrylic paint that obscure and transform the original subjects. The works explore the nature of painting itself — what we see in paintings, why we find beauty in them, and how meaning is created through the act of looking. The book includes over 30 works catalogued with titles, dates, and media, alongside an artist's statement reflecting on the metaphysical questions behind his practice.

A graphic novel by Malaysian-born artist Sonny Liew that tells the story of fictional Singaporean comics creator Charlie Chan Hock Chye, whose career spanning five decades mirrors the political and social history of Singapore and Malaysia. The work is a meta-fictional blend of comic styles, genres, and formats that comments on Singapore's post-war development through the lens of the comics medium. It won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award and received widespread critical acclaim for its innovative storytelling and visual artistry.

A critically acclaimed exploration of Dutch football culture, tracing the origins and philosophy of Total Football from the 1960s through to the Dutch players who transformed clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea. The book uniquely connects the Dutch style of play — characterized by creativity, adventurous tactics, and self-destructive tendencies — to the broader cultural, artistic, and geographical identity of the Netherlands. Winner draws fascinating parallels between Dutch football, Dutch art, architecture, and the flat landscape that shaped the national psyche.

This is an Italian-language graphic novel adaptation of the classic erotic novel 'Story of O' (Histoire d'O), originally written by Pauline Réage, illustrated by renowned Italian comics artist Guido Crepax. Published as part of the 'Quaderni dell'Eros' series (ES, Numero 1), it contains four chapters: Gli amanti di Roissy, Sir Stephen, Anne-Marie e gli anelli, and La civetta. Crepax's distinctive black-and-white ink style renders the controversial BDSM narrative with his characteristic Art Nouveau-influenced elegance and cinematic panel compositions.

A definitive 4th edition of the classic New York Times bestseller that teaches drawing by engaging the brain's right hemisphere for enhanced creativity and artistic perception. The book presents a structured course with exercises covering edges, spaces, relationships, light, shadow, and portraiture to help both beginners and experienced artists develop their skills. Over 2 million copies sold, it has been translated into more than seventeen languages and is considered the world's most widely used drawing instruction book.

A practical guide to recruiting, managing, and working with local fixers and guides on international field research projects. Written by Jan Chipchase of Studio D, it covers team dynamics, cultural dimensions, roles and responsibilities, recruiting strategies, compensation, and confidentiality for conducting corporate anthropology and design research globally. Published in a Field Edition, the book draws on case studies from cities around the world including São Paulo, Tokyo, and beyond.

A beautifully illustrated book by British artist and author Charlie Mackesy, featuring conversations between a boy, a mole, a fox, and a horse as they journey through the wild together. The book combines hand-drawn ink and watercolor illustrations with handwritten philosophical reflections on kindness, courage, loss, and hope. It is dedicated to the author's mother and his dog Dill, and was first published in 2019 by Ebury in the UK and HarperOne in the US.

A mathematics booklet from the 'Topics in Mathematics' series, translated and adapted from the 1954 Russian edition. It discusses the construction of geometric proofs, criteria for determining logical correctness of proofs, and common pitfalls such as circular reasoning and assuming 'obvious facts.' The final chapter examines axioms from Hilbert's famous set of axioms for Euclidean geometry, including properties of independence, completeness, and consistency.

A compact reference guide covering the gods, goddesses, and ritual objects of Buddhism and Hinduism in Nepal, including descriptions of postures, pedestals, mudras, and iconographic details. Originally published in 1989 and reprinted multiple times, the book was created to assist handicraft businesspeople in identifying and describing religious figures and objects. It covers major deities from both traditions including Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Hindu gods, and ritual implements.

A set of 53 postcards drawn from the best-selling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volumes I–III, featuring 25 original drawings by Danzig Baldaev and 25 photographs by Sergei Vasiliev documenting Russian criminal tattoos and their coded meanings. Each postcard front shows either a drawing or photograph of tattoos worn by Soviet-era criminals, while the reverse explains the symbolic significance of the tattoos depicted. The collection documents the elaborate visual language used within the Russian criminal underworld, including gulag prisoners and members of the Vory v Zakone (thieves-in-law) hierarchy.

A pocket-sized scholarly work exploring the personal hygiene, perfumery, and cosmetic practices of the Medici court in Florence, drawing on pharmaceutical recipe books and archival manuscripts. The book covers topics ranging from private bathrooms and bathing rituals to the Medicean apothecary laboratories, scented cosmetics, hairstyles, and wigs. It spans the period from Grand Duke Cosimo I (1569–1574) through to the death of Gian Gastone in 1737, revealing the intimate daily life of one of history's most influential dynasties.

Commonly known as the 'Little Red Book,' this is the English-language edition of selected quotations from the writings and speeches of Mao Zedong, leader of the People's Republic of China. The book covers topics including the Communist Party, class struggle, war and peace, imperialism, and the people's army. This particular edition was published in Peking in 1972 by Foreign Languages Press and distributed by China Books of South San Francisco.

A comprehensive monograph on Greek-Italian Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis, covering his works and writings from 1958 to 2000. The book includes an essay by Gloria Moure titled 'Configuration as Resistance,' alongside Kounellis's own writings, theatre pieces, biography, bibliography, and a catalog of works. With 448 pages and 262 illustrations, it documents four decades of one of the most significant figures in postwar European art.

This catalog documents the sumi ink works of Toko Shinoda (1913–), a pioneering Japanese abstract ink painter and calligrapher, focusing specifically on her suboku works created for architectural spaces. The book surveys installations across various venues including the Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Conrad Tokyo, Tokyo American Club, The Capitol Hotel Tokyo, Zojoji temple, and private residences. Published in March 2019, it includes a dialogue between Toko Shinoda and Hidetoshi Ono, a chronology, and a full list of works photographed by Yusuke Miyake.

This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Toko Shinoda: a retrospective,' held at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 16 April to 22 June 2022. It presents a comprehensive overview of Shinoda's long career spanning over seventy years, featuring more than 120 exhibits including sumi ink abstract works and lithographs. The catalogue documents the work of Toko Shinoda, a pioneering Japanese artist who bridged avant-garde calligraphy and Western abstract art, maintaining a distinctive approach to expression using sumi ink.

A comprehensive publication devoted to Cy Twombly's ten-painting masterpiece 'Fifty Days at Iliam' (1978), considered the pinnacle of his lifelong engagement with Homer's Iliad. The book includes scholarly essays exploring the intertextual dimensions of Twombly's project, his adaptation of Homer's literary tropes, and his engagement with the theme of the Trojan War, alongside photographs documenting the creation of the paintings in Twombly's studio in Bassano in Teverina, Italy. The volume was produced in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which acquired the paintings in 1989.

A photographic survey of the homes and studios of American artist Cy Twombly (1928–2011), featuring 236 photographs taken by master photographers including Horst P. Horst, Bruce Weber, Sally Mann, Ugo Mulas, Deborah Turbeville, and others. The book documents seven locations spanning from New York in 1954 to his spaces in Rome, Bassano in Teverina, Gaeta, Itri, and Lexington, Virginia through 2012. Two introductory essays by Nicola Del Roscio and Florian Illies provide biographical and cultural context, exploring Twombly's unique relationship with classical antiquity and his carefully curated living and working environments.

This catalogue accompanies a long-term exhibition of five Cy Twombly sculptures at Glenstone Museum, published on the occasion of the opening of the Pavilions at Glenstone in 2018. It focuses on Twombly's singular body of sculpture made from quotidian materials such as wood, paint, metal, and found objects, unified by a delicate layer of white paint. The book includes an original essay by scholar Kate Nesin, never-before-published archival images from the artist's Italian studios courtesy of the Nicola Del Roscio Archives, and an introduction by Emily Wei Rales, founder and director of Glenstone.

This book documents Cy Twombly's monumental ten-part painting cycle 'Fifty Days at Iliam' (1977–1978), inspired by Homer's Iliad in Alexander Pope's translation. The work, created in Bassano in Teverina using oil, oil-crayon, and pencil on canvas with an overall dimension of 300x2582 cm, was first exhibited by The Lone Star Foundation in New York in November 1978. Published in Berlin in March 1979, the book includes reproductions of all ten panels and was also issued in a special limited edition of 60 copies bound in red leather, with 50 signed and numbered by Twombly.

This catalog documents Cy Twombly's formative 1952-1953 journey to Morocco and North Africa, undertaken with Robert Rauschenberg following a traveling scholarship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It presents photographs taken with a Rolleiflex camera, sketches, and drawings from the trip preserved in the Cy Twombly Foundation and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio archives. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech (March 4 – July 2, 2023), the book explores Twombly's lesser-known affinity for Africa's Mediterranean shores and its influence on his artistic development.

A comprehensive scholarly catalog documenting Joseph Beuys's major installation work 'Arena,' which consists of 500 panels each approximately 55 by 32 inches, held in the permanent collection of the Dia Center for the Arts in New York. The book includes essays by Pamela Kort, Christopher Phillips, and Lynne Cooke, as well as an interview with Lucio Amelio, and provides plates, identifications, glossary, biography, and bibliography related to Beuys's photographs, films, and actions. It represents a milestone in Beuys scholarship, examining how the artist used photography in a radically non-documentary way to create an open-ended, associational work.

This catalog documents Joseph Beuys's drawings made in response to Leonardo da Vinci's rediscovered Codices Madrid notebooks. Published by the Dia Center for the Arts, it includes scholarly essays by Ann Temkin, Martin Kemp, and Cornelia Lauf exploring the connections between Beuys and Leonardo, alongside plates of Beuys's pencil drawings. The book examines how Beuys engaged with Leonardo's notebooks as an 'experimental field,' linking concepts of art, science, and social sculpture.

A comprehensive catalogue of Joseph Beuys's poster art, one of the most internationally respected German artists of the post-war period. Originally published in 2004, this fully revised edition was released on the hundredth anniversary of Beuys's birth in 2021, expanding the catalogue to include more than eighty new entries. The book provides a unique overview of Beuys's philosophies and work through his extensive use of posters as a public artistic medium.

Old Is New documents the architectural works of New Material Research Laboratory, founded in 2008 by artist/photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and architect Tomoyuki Sakakida. The book explores their philosophy of researching 'new materials' from known materials and old techniques, advocating for a reconnection of the present with a bygone era rooted in Japanese tradition and aesthetics. Projects featured include tea houses, private residences, museums, and galleries across Japan and internationally.

A comprehensive monograph documenting Hiroshi Sugimoto's Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan — an ambitious cultural complex integrating architecture, art, and nature. The book covers the observatory's various structures including the Summer Solstice Light-Worship 100-Meter Gallery, shrines, teahouses, stone stages, and other site-specific elements that align with astronomical phenomena. Photography is contributed by multiple photographers including Sugimoto himself, Daido Moriyama, and Furuya Shimmatsu, with text written by Sugimoto.

A portfolio publication by New Material Research Laboratory (新素研), the architectural and design firm founded by artist/photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and architect Tomoyuki Sakakida. The book showcases the firm's projects including the London Gallery Shirokane in Tokyo, a Private Residence in Manhattan, and the Odawara Art Foundation Enoura Observatory in Kanagawa. The work blends Japanese aesthetic sensibility with contemporary minimalist architecture across international projects.

A beautifully produced reference book by French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel exploring the symbolic and hidden meanings of flowers, plants, and trees in art history. Originally published in French as 'L'Herbier merveilleux,' it was created from notes, drawings, and photographs made during the artist's residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 2011. Each entry pairs botanical photographs with cultural, religious, and mythological symbolism across various artistic traditions.

Exhibition catalogue for 'Everyday Enchantment', a group show held at CHANEL Nexus Hall in Ginza, Tokyo from October 19 to December 8, 2024. The exhibition features three artists — Bianca Bondi, Muku Kobayashi, and Umico Niwa — who explore the alchemical and enchanting potential of nature and everyday objects through tapestries, sculptures, and botanical installations. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa through her Hasegawa Lab initiative and supported by the CHANEL Culture Fund.

A catalog published on the occasion of Michaël Borremans's exhibition 'The Acrobat' at David Zwirner, New York (April 28–June 4, 2022). The book features reproductions of Borremans's oil paintings depicting enigmatic figures with partially painted or masked faces, accompanied by an essay by Katya Tylevich titled 'A Sermon at the Circus: Michaël Borremans Chants the Profound from a Trapeze.' The Belgian painter's work draws on art historical traditions while exploring themes of the human body, identity, and ambiguity.

This book is the Italian edition of Robert Storr's in-depth analysis of Gerhard Richter's painting 'September' (2005), created in response to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Storr, an eminent American art critic and curator with a long professional relationship with Richter, explores both the painting and the event itself through his experience as an eyewitness in New York that day. Through comparative image analysis and references to precedents in art, literature, and modern warfare strategy, Storr examines the significance of this work and how it further develops a thread in Richter's career that interrogates traumatic evocations and controversial moments in history.

Solace is a photography book by Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya, compiling images rescanned from his archive of negatives, many shot on expired film on various film sets. The book features an interview between Wing Shya and Karen Smith, in which the photographer reflects on his evolving relationship with his own images and the shift from valuing detail in youth to prioritizing feeling with age. Published bilingually in English and Traditional Chinese, the work is distributed by Dashwood Books (NYC) and twelvebooks (Tokyo).

A product catalog/monograph for Time & Style, a Japanese furniture brand with a factory in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. The book showcases their furniture collections including pieces named Stone Garden, Tatami, Futon, Kumiko, and others, each rooted in Japanese craft traditions and aesthetics. Photography by Shinji Hosono, Masatoshi Mori, Pietro Savorelli, and Giorgio De Vecchi documents both the furniture designs and the manufacturing process.

A catalogue from Time & Style, a Japanese furniture and design brand, showcasing their products rooted in traditional Japanese craftsmanship techniques such as Kumiko, Sashimono, Iwami stoneware, and Mino-washi paper. The book explores the philosophical and cultural origins of Japanese craft traditions, drawing connections between Shinto beliefs, nature worship, and the brand's design philosophy. It presents furniture and objects that blend traditional Japanese techniques with contemporary design sensibilities.

A comprehensive catalog and essay collection by Japanese furniture and lifestyle brand TIME & STYLE, exploring the concept of 'monozukuri' — Japanese craftsmanship and making culture. The book documents traditional crafts, artisans, and design objects from across Japan, presenting furniture pieces such as the Tasogare composition cabinet and hand-crafted drawer units that fuse traditional Japanese techniques with contemporary design. It reflects on the cultural significance of Japanese craft traditions and the brand's philosophy of preserving and evolving them for modern life.

Where Is The Cool is a French independent magazine based in Saint-Denis focused on style, culture, and cool-hunting. Issue 10 features editorial spreads on topics including a rare Renault Espace minivan camper conversion, the aesthetics of rolled-down one-piece swimsuits, climbing rope colors as fashion inspiration, and Gae Aulenti's furniture as seen in the 1969 film La Piscine. The magazine blends fashion photography with cultural essays and design references in a sophisticated, editorial format.

Irène is a French erotic fanzine created by Geneviève Eliard, featuring artistic nude and erotic photography by multiple international photographers including Kent Andreasen, Maxime Ballesteros, Romain Brunet, Marco Pietracupa, and others. Issue #5 contains photo essays shot in various locations including Paris strip clubs and hotels, with work exploring themes of sensuality, beauty, and intimacy. The publication presents erotic imagery in an artistic, editorial context with careful art direction and design.

The July 2024 issue of Casa Brutus magazine focuses on well-designed workspaces and interior design for work environments. Featuring NIGO's new atelier at Otsumo Centre, the issue explores workspace creation through dialogues with architects and designers, desk setups, atelier tours, and furniture recommendations. The issue also includes a special report on Milano Design Week 2024.

Dapper Dan is a menswear-focused fashion magazine in its 29th issue, covering Spring/Summer 2024. The issue features interviews with figures including Dries Van Noten, fashion editorials shot by photographers such as Spyros Rennt and Johan Sandberg, and styled by fashion editors including Elena Psalti. It includes essays, studio visits, and features showcasing luxury menswear brands such as Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, Gucci, and Dries Van Noten.

An exhibition catalogue published by Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo featuring works by artists Silke Otto-Knapp and Florian Pumhösl. The book presents minimalist drawings and atmospheric grey-toned paintings alongside an essay titled 'Extraterritorial' by Tom McDonough, which explores the concept of the island as a space within Western imagination. The publication is bilingual in English and Japanese, with photography by Kenji Takahashi and design by Atsuki Kikuchi.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Gagosian London (May 19–July 22, 2017), this book presents Alberto Giacometti's sculptures photographed by renowned fashion and art photographer Peter Lindbergh in Zurich in 2016. The volume features dramatic black-and-white photographs that emphasize the interplay of substance and shadow in Giacometti's iconic bronze figures, accompanied by a conversation between Peter Lindbergh and Catherine Grenier discussing Lindbergh's aesthetic choices, particularly his use of black-and-white photography.

Openhouse is a biannual architecture, design, and lifestyle magazine published in Barcelona. Issue N°23, themed 'The Secret in Their Eyes,' features photography and editorial content exploring spaces and people including Monica Patiño's kitchen in Mexico City, Taliesin West House in Arizona, Nomos Hotel in Rome, and various design studios and residences worldwide. The issue includes contributions from photographers such as Yosigo, Romain Laprade, and Salva López, alongside profiles of figures like Enrique Olvera and Mariana Schmidt.

Openhouse Magazine Issue No. 20, themed 'The Life We've Shared', celebrates the publication's twentieth edition with features on inspiring homes, design brands, and hospitality spaces across the globe. The issue includes visits to spaces such as Baxter Lago over Lake Como, Casa Monte in Oaxaca, and L'Officine in Belgium, alongside profiles of creatives and design brands like KARAK, AGOBAY, and DOMUS by HENRYTIMI. It also features a chef story on restaurant Misera in Antwerp, and explores the intersection of art, architecture, and curated living.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly publication themed around 'stepping back to a simpler life,' inspired by Octavio Paz's poem 'La Vida Sencilla' (The Simple Life). This issue features profiles of architect Iker Ochotorena and his Madrid-based firm OOAA, artist Jaume Roig, chef Kobus van der Merwe of restaurant Wolfgat in South Africa, and visits to spaces including the Château de la Haute Borde in the Loire Valley and Palácio do Grilo in Portugal. The magazine explores the intersection of architecture, interiors, art, and food through a lens of intentional simplicity and authenticity.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly Barcelona-based publication focusing on architecture, interiors, and the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Issue 17, themed 'Atlas, Album, Place,' features stories on Dimorestudio, Villa Benkemoun in France, a ranch in Mexico called El Divisadero, designer Ileana Moro's house-studio in Gent, and Maison Louis Carré by Alvar Aalto. The magazine is bilingual (English and Italian) and explores the intersection of travel, architecture, and domestic life.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly publication focused on architecture, design, and culture with the theme 'That Which Is Handed Down,' exploring concepts of heritage, ownership, and value. This issue features stories on the legacy of Luis Barragán in Mexico City, Terme Berzieri spa in Parma Italy, architect Héctor Barroso, artist Charlotte Taylor, and visits to locations including Es Bec d'Aguila in Menorca and the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York. The magazine blends interior photography, profiles of creative figures, and travel features across Europe, Mexico, and the United States.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly architecture and design magazine published in Barcelona, themed around the concept of 'Respite, Connect and Escape.' Issue 14 features visits to Potter's House in Majorca with master gardener Luciano Giubbilei, Hotel Les Cabanettes in Nantes France, Studio IMA in Mexico City, and explorations of Eduardo Chillida's sculpture in Basque Country. The magazine covers creative spaces, artisans, and distinctive places around the world with bilingual English and Spanish content.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly publication focused on architecture, interiors, and design through the lens of travel and lifestyle. Issue No. 13, themed 'Memoirs of a Moment,' features stories on Axel Vervoordt in Antwerp, Casa Das Canoas by Oscar Niemeyer, Casa Estudio Max Cetto in Mexico City, Palehua House in Hawaii, Villa Cavrois, and destinations including Tuscany, Tunisia, and Copenhagen. The magazine blends architectural exploration with cultural narratives across Europe, the Americas, and beyond.

Openhouse is a biannual magazine subtitled 'The life we share,' focused on architecture, interiors, and the way people inhabit their spaces. Issue No. 6 (Autumn/Winter 2016-2017) features homes and spaces across Barcelona, Australia, Yorkshire UK, Lisbon, Brazil, Sausalito California, and France, including profiles of sculptor Xavier Corberó's studio and the S.S. Vallejo houseboat home of the Varda Artists Residency Program. The magazine blends interior photography with cultural storytelling, exploring the intersection of architecture, art, and domestic life.

Openhouse is a Barcelona-based biannual lifestyle magazine focused on the intersection of architecture, interiors, and the way people live. Issue No. 3 (Spring-Summer 2015) features stories from locations including Mallorca, Tuscany, Finland, Sweden, Brooklyn, Barcelona, and Frankfurt. The magazine explores homes, artists' residencies, communal spaces, and unique living environments through rich photography and storytelling.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly Barcelona-based magazine subtitled 'The Life We Share,' exploring the intersection of architecture, interiors, food, and lifestyle through intimate portraits of people and their spaces around the world. Issue No. 02 (Autumn-Winter 2014-2015) features stories from San Francisco, Barcelona, Berlin, Fez, Istanbul, Brussels, and Connecticut, including a feature on Philip Johnson's Glass House. The magazine combines travel journalism, interior photography, and food culture to document how people live in distinctive spaces globally.

Openhouse is a twice-yearly magazine that serves as a guide to creative people around the world who open their homes and private spaces to the public. Issue No. 8 features visits to historic homes including Schloss Hollenegg in Austria and Numeroventi in Florence, a profile of chef Alexandre Gauthier, an exploration of Le Corbusier's La Tourette convent in France, and visits to creative spaces including Nes Creative in New York and House of Toogood in London. The magazine also includes architectural features on Vila Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe in Brno, Czech Republic.

Cereal is a bi-annual travel and style magazine. Volume 20 (A/W 2020) focuses on the restorative power of art and nature. It features interviews with artists Torkwase Dyson, Edmund de Waal, and Anish Kapoor, as well as a visit to Hiroshi Sugimoto's Enoura Observatory in Japan. The issue also traverses landscapes including Western Australia, the Atacama Desert, and Patagonia, with photography by Rich Stapleton and others.

Cereal is a bi-annual travel and style magazine. Volume 19 (S/S 2020) focuses on Korea, exploring the architecture of Itami Jun, the photography of Koo Bohnchang, and the Dansaekhwa art movement. The issue features conversations with David Chang and Eunjo Park, a visit to Charlotte Perriand's Méribel chalet with Aesop, and a cultural guide to Seoul. It also covers the Korea Furniture Museum, Korean-inspired ceramics, and a style edit of Korean and international designers.

Cereal is a bi-annual travel and style magazine, Volume 18 (A/W 2019) focuses on the theme of legacy. It features articles on the architecture of Gio Ponti and Carlo Scarpa, the art of Joan Miró, photography by Fan Ho, a conversation with Rupi Kaur, a design discussion with Jonathan Anderson, and an autumn style edit at Kettle's Yard.

Cereal is a biannual travel and style magazine focused on minimalist aesthetics, featuring articles on collecting, architecture, and travel destinations. Volume 15 (A/W 2018) includes conversations with Pierre Yovanovitch and Daniel Buren, visits to Donald Judd's architecture in Marfa, and travel features on South Tyrol's Dolomites, Kyoto, and Lake Como. The issue also profiles designer Phillip Lim and artist/collector Antonio Calderara.

Cereal is a bi-annual travel and style magazine featuring minimalist photography and thoughtful editorial content. Volume 13 (S/S 2017) includes conversations with designer John Pawson and Margaret Howell, explores Sydney, Australia and London, escapes to Sri Lanka and Bali, and visits the studio of Landon Metz and the former home of Georgia O'Keeffe. The magazine is known for its clean aesthetic, generous white space, and carefully curated coverage of lifestyle, travel, and design.

Cereal is a bi-annual travel and style magazine published in Bristol, UK. This issue features destinations including Rajasthan (India), the Faroe Islands, Southern California, and Antarctica, along with art features on Lee Ufan and a study of light. The magazine is known for its minimalist aesthetic, high-quality photography, and thoughtful long-form writing about travel, culture, and style.

Cereal is a bi-annual travel and style publication featuring destinations including Tokyo, Seattle, Vienna, and Fogo Island, alongside art, design, and fashion features. This issue includes profiles on artist Donald Judd, fashion brand Our Legacy, and various city guides with restaurant and design recommendations. The magazine is known for its minimal aesthetic, clean typography, and high-quality photography.

This exhibition catalogue documents the collection of Dorothee and Konrad Fischer, focusing on Minimal and Conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Konrad Fischer was a pivotal gallerist based in Düsseldorf who collaborated with young American and European artists, and the book traces his influential role in developing these art scenes. The bilingual (Japanese/English) catalogue was produced for a touring exhibition held at multiple Japanese museums between 2021 and 2022, featuring works by eighteen representative artists alongside archive materials.

A photography book by acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, featuring photographs taken on the set of his film 'Poor Things' in Budapest. The negatives were developed by Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos, and the book includes a poem by Patti Smith. Published in a first edition of 4000 copies.

A photography book by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg documenting children's self-built structures at adventure playgrounds, beginning with the Jongensland ('Boysland') playground in Amsterdam, visited in 1969. The black-and-white and color photographs capture the improvised huts, shelters, and constructions built by children from salvaged and waste materials. The book includes an essay titled 'Junkology' by Tom Wilkinson, exploring themes of child-driven creativity, postwar architecture, and the cultural history of adventure playgrounds.

A comprehensive survey of German photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's work spanning three decades, published on the occasion of her exhibition at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt (4 July – 16 September 2018). The book collects thirteen series of mostly black-and-white photographs documenting places of transit, border zones, cult sites, and the remains of past civilisations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Schulz-Dornburg's images operate at the intersection of archaeology, ethnology, documentary and artistic photography, bearing witness to vanished landscapes and fast-disappearing societies.

Herdes is an international travel and fashion magazine; this sixth issue is dedicated entirely to Morocco, exploring the country's rich cultural traditions alongside avant-garde fashion and design. The issue features fashion editorials shot in locations across Morocco including Fez, Casablanca, and Marrakech, with contributions from multiple photographers and stylists. Content spans fashion photography, short stories, profiles of Moroccan artisans and architects, a feature on Yves Saint Laurent's connection to Marrakech, and a travel handbook.

Purple Magazine issue #42 for Fall/Winter 2024-25, themed 'The Magic Issue,' featuring contributions related to Carl G. Jung, Michel Foucault, Björk, David Lynch, and major fashion houses including Fendi, Comme des Garçons, Loewe, Balenciaga, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel. The issue explores magic as a philosophical and cultural lens, connecting esoteric practices, ecofeminism, psychedelic research, and contemporary fashion. It includes essays, interviews, and visual essays alongside high fashion editorial photography.

Purple Fashion Magazine Volume III, Issue 11 for Spring/Summer 2009, featuring Diane von Furstenberg on the cover wearing a blonde wig coat by Maison Martin Margiela, photographed by Terry Richardson. The issue includes interviews and features with notable figures including David Lynch, Zac Posen, Gaspar Noé, Barack Obama, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, alongside fashion photography by Mario Sorrenti, David Lynch, and others. Content spans fashion editorials, art features, portraits, and a notable spread of Terry Richardson's photographs of Barack Obama prior to his presidency.

Another Man is a British men's fashion magazine, with Issue 25 featuring ballet dancer Sergei Polunin on the cover under the theme 'Modern Mythologies'. The issue includes fashion editorials, an exploration of Gucci's arcane world by Alessandro Michele with Tarot imagery photographed by Tim Walker, an archive piece on jazz pioneer Sun Ra, and a feature on vintage male physique photography. Additional content includes a lexicon of mythological symbols illustrated by Mark Gonzales.

Dapper Dan is an independent men's fashion and culture magazine, Issue 21 featuring interviews with figures such as choreographer Alexander Ekman, J.M. Weston artistic director Olivier Saillard, and designers from brands including Jil Sander and Marni. The issue includes fashion editorials photographed in locations such as Sicily, alongside essays, opinion pieces, and coverage of topics ranging from ballet to shoe design. Published by Sad Bats Publishing Ltd with editorial offices in Athens, Greece.

The Ingénue is an independent fashion and culture magazine, with Issue No. 7 featuring King Princess on the cover, photographed by Danielle Levitt and styled by Sean King. The issue includes fashion editorials, artist profiles, and creative writing, featuring contributors such as photographers Polly Penrose and Gwenaëlle Trannoy, with styling and beauty direction from various collaborators. The publication blends high fashion imagery with literary and artistic sensibilities, covering subjects ranging from music and style to visual art.

INDIE Magazine's Summer 2012 Japan Issue (No. 35) is a special edition dedicated to Japanese culture, fashion, art, and music. The issue features artist profiles including Takahiromiyashita TheSoloist, fashion editorials shot in Japan, and interviews with Japanese musicians and creatives. Content spans fashion features on brands like Issey Miyake and The Soloist, music coverage, and art features showcasing Japanese independent culture.

The September 2023 issue of Wallpaper* magazine, themed 'The Style Issue', covering high drama and great lengths in fashion for the season. The issue features articles on Paco Rabanne's Metal Morphosis collection under creative director Julien Dossena, Celine's Saint-Honoré store, Gucci's high-tech Tuscan testing lab, and a feature on 'what happens when nothing happens' exploring ordinary materials in extraordinary compositions. Additional coverage includes architecture (V&A East opening in London), beauty, design, and travel.

A bilingual (English/Japanese) publication by Shoyoroll, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gi and apparel brand, featuring interviews and profiles of notable figures including Anthony Bourdain, Rolles Gracie, Kenny Florian, and others connected to Jiu-Jitsu culture. The magazine blends martial arts lifestyle with photography, fashion, and cultural commentary. It serves as both a brand retrospective and a cultural document of the Jiu-Jitsu community.

This is the official program catalog for the Tokyo Art Book Fair (TABF) Ginza Edition, held at Ginza Sony Park from March 8 to April 7, 2019. The publication includes a schedule, exhibitor booth listings, exhibition information featuring artists such as OK-RM & Daniel Shea, Misaki Kawai, Takashi Homma, and Miranda July, as well as details on events including workshops, book signings, film screenings, and a zine mate shop. It serves as a comprehensive guide to the month-long art book fair event, featuring around 150 publishers, galleries, and artists.

Dust is an independent fashion and culture magazine, with Issue #7 themed around 'Axis Mundi' — the cosmic pillar connecting heaven and earth — exploring humanity's connection to its source, the cosmos, and sense of reality. The issue features avant-garde fashion photography, surrealist imagery, and editorial content blending spiritual philosophy with contemporary fashion and art. Published in Berlin and distributed via Export Press in Paris, it is printed in Lithuania.

Avaunt is an adventure and exploration magazine featuring long-form journalism and striking photography. This issue covers topics including ascending K2, the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Alaskan bush pilots, Mexico's hidden caves, Le Mans racing, and the Virgo Interferometer. The magazine blends adventure sports, travel, science, and culture with high-quality editorial design and photography.

Avaunt is a British adventure, style, and culture magazine. Issue 03 (Spring 2016) features stories on extreme training for life on Mars, hunting with eagles in Western Mongolia, Jacques Cousteau meeting Fidel Castro, the Graf Zeppelin, Budapest fencers, and Russia's first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova. The magazine covers adventure, innovation, nature, and culture with strong photographic content.

Avaunt is a British adventure and exploration magazine covering stories of discovery, nature, science, and culture. Issue 02 (Autumn/Winter 2015) features articles on Sir Wally Herbert's Arctic crossing, the return of the black rhino to Kenya, giants of the sea (HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier), sperm whales, China's oil fields, and the Overview Effect from space. The magazine combines long-form journalism with striking photography and bold editorial design.

Avaunt is a Spring/Summer 2015 adventure magazine (Issue 01) dedicated to exploration, endurance, and pushing the boundaries of human possibility. It covers topics including adventure, style, innovation, nature, and culture, featuring stories on figures like Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the Kombai tribe, bionic man research, and space travel. The magazine combines high-quality photography and editorial design with long-form journalism about extraordinary people and places.

Stuben is a Japanese snow culture magazine (issue 06) published in November 2022, exploring skiing, mountain biking, and alpine lifestyle primarily in Japan (Hakuba, Nagano and Hokkaido regions) as well as Switzerland. The magazine features articles on topics including mountain environments, art, seasonal living, food culture, and a historical retrospective on Japanese skiing, accompanied by striking photography. It is the sixth installment in a series that began in 2015, priced at 2,500 yen.

Stuben is a Japanese magazine dedicated to snow culture, focusing primarily on Hokkaido and winter mountain life in Japan. Issue 05 (published November 22, 2020) features articles on Nordic skiing culture, Hokkaido's natural landscapes, mountain skiing, snow forests, and life in Shinshu, along with woodblock print artwork depicting ski culture. The magazine blends photography, essays, and art to explore the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of winter snow sports and landscapes in Japan.

Stuben is a Japanese independent magazine dedicated to snow culture and alpine skiing, produced in Niseko, Hokkaido. Named after a small village in Arlberg, Austria — birthplace of Hannes Schneider, pioneer of alpine skiing techniques — the magazine explores the intersection of winter nature, skiing philosophy, and photography. This fourth issue features black-and-white mountain photography, essays in both Japanese and English, and photo essays covering locations including Alaska, the Andes, and the Alps.

Stuben is a Japanese bilingual magazine dedicated to snow culture, skiing, and winter mountain life. Named after a small village in Arlberg, Austria — birthplace of Hannes Schneider, the pioneer of alpine skiing techniques — the magazine explores Japan's snow culture from a philosophical and cultural perspective. Issue No. 02 features articles on Hakuba, Hokkaido's natural environment, mountain resort energy, and contributions from international writers, with stunning black-and-white winter photography throughout.

Stuben is a Japanese bilingual magazine dedicated to snow culture, taking its name from a small village in Arlberg, Austria — the birthplace of alpine skiing pioneer Hannes Schneider. The inaugural issue explores Japan's skiing heritage and snow country (yukiguni) culture through photography, essays, and gear reviews, featuring content about locations in Hokkaido, Nagano, Toyama, and beyond. The magazine celebrates the spiritual and physical experience of skiing and snowboarding in nature, connecting Japanese snow culture with its Alpine roots.

The Monocle 100 is a special supplement of the December/January 2013/14 issue of Monocle magazine, featuring 100 things that add to your quality of life. It covers a wide range of topics including innovative architecture, speedy bikes, food pioneers, useful design objects, and urban farming across global cities. The supplement is curated as a guide to businesses, people, places, and products that exemplify quality living around the world.

The inaugural Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Monocle's Food and Entertaining Annual, a special directory dedicated to drinking and dining culture around the world. The publication covers topics including restaurant awards, global food entrepreneurs, café culture in Madrid, Tasmanian gin, members' clubs in Berlin, Mediterranean recipes, and coffee culture across continents. It features the Monocle Restaurant Awards alongside design, fashion, and food news sections.

The fourth volume of HODINKEE Magazine, a premium print publication from the renowned watch media brand. The issue covers horology, vintage watches, and collector profiles alongside lifestyle content including fashion (Brunello Cucinelli), motorcycles, design, and a city guide to London. Features articles on the Rolex GMT-Master, Zenith El Primero, Seiko hand-wound watches, and classic chronograph movements.

HODINKEE Magazine Volume 3 is a luxury print publication focused on watch collecting, horology, and the culture surrounding fine timepieces. The issue covers topics including the history of the motorsports chronograph, profiles of notable collectors like Ronnie Fieg, and features on watches photographed in locations such as the Côte d'Azur. It also explores related lifestyle subjects including automotive design, art, and travel, with contributions from figures such as Jimmy Chin, David Robinson, and Lynn Yaeger.

HODINKEE Magazine Volume 2 is a luxury print publication focused on watch culture, featuring Apple's Jony Ive on the cover in his first-ever interview about watches. The issue includes articles on the history of dive watches, the Patek Philippe Calatrava, Grand Seiko, and contributions from notable figures including Spike Lee, Daniel Humm, and François-Henry Bennahmias. The magazine also features lifestyle content including a piece on the BMW M1 and James Marsden's Los Angeles city guide.

HODINKEE Magazine Volume 1 is a luxury print publication from the renowned watch-focused digital media brand HODINKEE. The issue covers topics including the history of pilot's watches, 100 years of the Cartier Tank, the Rolex Sea-Dweller, Grand Seiko, and features interviews with notable figures such as John Mayer and Patek Philippe CEO Thierry Stern. It also extends beyond horology to include pieces on the 1965 Porsche 911, a Lautner House restoration, and a Paris city guide by Berluti CEO Antoine Arnault.

A classic illustrated fable by Shel Silverstein about a circle that is missing a piece and sets off on a journey to find it, singing as it rolls along. The minimalist black-and-white drawings accompany a simple yet profound story that explores themes of quest, fulfillment, and self-acceptance. Originally published in 1976 as an Ursula Nordstrom Book, it is dedicated 'for Gerry.'

A comprehensive study of traditional Japanese domestic architecture, covering every aspect from structural features to ceremonial appointments such as tatami mats, shoji screens, fusuma, hibachi, and tokonoma. Originally published in 1886 by Ticknor and Company, this Dover edition is an unabridged republication featuring over 300 illustrations drawn by the author himself. The work examines how the traditional Japanese home achieves a blend of art and nature, and includes coverage of gardens, interiors, and surrounding environments.

A concise and influential exploration of wabi-sabi, the quintessential Japanese aesthetic philosophy centered on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. The book examines wabi-sabi through its metaphysical basis, spiritual values, moral precepts, and material qualities, and draws comparisons with Western modernism. Originally published in 1994, this edition provides creative practitioners with a framework for understanding and applying this deeply Japanese worldview.

Issue 789 (September 2018) of The Mingei, the journal of the Japan Folk Crafts Association (日本民藝協会). This special issue focuses on Joseon Dynasty white porcelains (朝鮮白磁), featuring photographs and scholarly articles about Korean white ceramic vessels from the Joseon period. The magazine includes essays by multiple contributors examining the aesthetic and cultural significance of these ceramics, along with advertisements from mingei craft shops across Japan.

KG+SELECT 2023 is the official book of the KG+ satellite program of the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival held in Kyoto. It features works by 10 selected artists including documentary photography, conceptual art, and photographic series such as Yulia Skogoreva's 'SALT AND TEARS: The story of Nana' about female sumo wrestling, and Yuma Nishimura's 'Savepoint' featuring photographs preserved in glass bottles. The book serves as both a catalog and archive of the annual open-entry art festival dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging photographers, curators, and gallerists.

A Japanese-language architectural analysis of the work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán, examining six key projects through themes such as circularity, scale and materials, interiority, gardens, materiality, and color and light. The book includes essays, interviews, a chronology, architectural maps, and detailed measured drawings overlaid on photographs to analyze spatial qualities. Published in conjunction with Meiji University's Okochi Laboratory.

A visual catalog of bas-relief artworks by French designer Ronan Bouroullec, produced in collaboration with Galerie kreo. The works feature abstract organic and geometric forms made from painted materials — including enamel, clay, and metal — set against colored glass backgrounds in white frames. Lithography for the book was done by Marjeta Morinc.

Too Much is a 'Magazine of Romantic Geography' published in Tokyo. Issue 5 focuses on the theme of 'The Body in Space and Time,' featuring contributions from architects, designers, artists and writers including Arata Isozaki, Hiroshi Hara, Kengo Kuma, Madeline Gins, and others. The issue is divided into seven parts — Modern, Future, Old, Endlessness, Thought, Weightlessness, and Molecules — exploring cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions of the body through essays, photography, and art.

ALA Champfest is an independent culture magazine focused on creativity and cultural insight, covering contemporary art, design, fashion, and travel. Issue No. 8 is themed around 'Revolution' and features interviews and profiles of figures including James Turrell, Michaël Borremans, Stephane Ashpool (Pigalle), and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. The bilingual publication (English and Japanese) spans cities including Tokyo, New York, London, Paris, LA, and Singapore.

This is a small exhibition catalogue published by the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Japan, accompanying a show of Joseph Cornell's works from September 2022 to January 2023. It highlights the museum's collection of Cornell's assemblage boxes and collages, including a newly acquired late-period collage depicting Circe and Her Lovers. The publication features bilingual (Japanese and English) texts discussing Cornell's artistic practice and the significance of the works in the collection.

Issue No. 54 of Magazine B, a Korean ad-free brand documentary magazine, dedicated entirely to Maison Margiela. The issue covers the avant-garde French fashion house founded by Martin Margiela in Paris in 1988, exploring its philosophy of anonymity, deconstruction, and experimental design through sections including runway coverage, boutique analysis, brand story, and interviews. The magazine examines Margiela's unique brand identity — recognizable by four white stitches and a blank tag — and its continued influence on fashion.

Issue No. 17 of Magazine B, a Korean brand documentary magazine, focusing entirely on Porter (Yoshida & Company), the iconic Japanese bag brand from Tokyo. The issue explores Porter's brand history, craftsmanship, product design, manufacturing partnerships, and the culture behind their bag-making philosophy spanning nearly eight decades. Sections include seller and user interviews, product categories, production scenes, designer perspectives, and the brand story of Yoshida & Co.

A collection highlights volume from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, showcasing masterworks spanning multiple Asian cultures and regions including the Persian World, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, China, Korea, and Japan. The book features stunning photography of sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, and other artifacts from the museum's world-class collection. It serves both as a curatorial guide and a visual celebration of Asian art history across millennia.

A comprehensive Japanese-language reference book on ancient Chinese inkstones (硯/suzuri), covering the four great famous inkstones of China including Duan, She, Tao, and Chengni varieties. The book features detailed photographs of historical inkstone specimens, maps of quarry locations, and scholarly text examining their history, classification, and aesthetic qualities from the Song dynasty through later periods.

This exhibition catalogue documents the 'Re: Startline 1963-1970/2023' exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (April 29–July 2, 2023). The book examines the sympathetic relations between the museum and artists as seen through the 'Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art' exhibition series from 1963 to 1970, featuring works by participating artists. It includes bilingual (Japanese and English) texts, artist entries, and black-and-white documentation of artworks spanning abstract painting, sculpture, installation, and more from that pivotal era of Japanese contemporary art.

A monograph documenting the sculptural work of Japanese artist Aoki Chie, featuring her signature 'BODY' series — life-size human figures coated in lustrous jet-black lacquer and hemp cloth on polystyrene foam. The sculptures depict introspective, melancholic poses that explore themes of anxiety, apprehension, and the precious fragility of human existence. The book was edited by Sokyo Gallery, designed by Nishioka Tsutomu, and includes exhibition documentation from venues including the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

This exhibition catalog documents the extraordinary relationship between fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his muse Betty Catroux, whom he met in 1967 and described as his alter ego. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, the book explores how Catroux embodied the spirit and androgynous ideal of Saint Laurent's vision through archival photographs and personal accounts. The foreword is written by Anthony Vaccarello, current creative director of Saint Laurent, and the book features rich photographic documentation spanning several decades of their friendship and collaboration.

A comprehensive companion book to Alex Garland's 2015 science fiction film Ex Machina, published by A24 as Book Number 001 in their book series. The volume contains five sections including the original screenplay, 24 film stills, an essay 'This Is Not a Love Story' by Jack Halberstam, concept art by Jock, and a philosophical essay 'What Is Consciousness?' by Murray Shanahan. This is the Third Edition (2020) of the book, featuring principal cast of Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, and Sonoya Mizuno.

A monograph dedicated to Richard Batterham (1936–2021), one of Britain's most revered studio potters, who worked for over 60 years from his pottery at Durweston, Dorset. The book features specially commissioned photographs of representative pieces personally selected by Batterham, alongside essays by writers with deep understanding of his work. It documents his personal archive spanning his full career, organized by categories including everyday pots, lidded pots, bowls, and jugs.

MacGuffin is a biannual magazine dedicated to 'the life of things,' with this ninth issue focusing entirely on the rug. The issue explores rugs from multiple angles including weaving techniques, the animal kingdom found in carpets, prayer rugs, tatami mats, Palestinian rug-making traditions, Navajo weaving, and the cultural symbolism of carpets across history and geography. Contributors include designers, historians, artists, and writers who examine the rug as both a functional object and a cultural artifact.

A collaborative artist's book by Danish artist Kirstine Roepstorff, created between London and Darngård, Fredericia during winter 2020/21, with Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath. The book weaves together dark, surreal imagery—including archival photographs, scientific imagery, and art historical references—with poetic texts and letters contributed by multiple writers exploring themes of darkness, the unconscious, death, and the sublime. It is an edition of 1000 copies, designed by OK-RM and printed in Germany.

A photography art book by François Halard featuring ancient and archeological subjects — statues, busts, and sculptural fragments — photographed with a Polaroid camera, then reworked with hot wax, paint drips, and handwritten names of gods and mythological figures. The work explores the tension between the Dionysian and Apollonian, using the alchemical qualities of the Polaroid medium to evoke divine impulses and primal vitality. Text by Vincent Huguet accompanies the images, reflecting on themes of chance, mystery, and the materiality of the photographic process.

This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Luigi Ghirri: Infinite Landscapes,' presented at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum to celebrate the museum's 30th anniversary, running from July 3 to September 28, 2025. It features the work of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), who constructed landscapes from visual fragments ranging from Italian scenes to artists' studios, exploring the relationship between reality and image. The catalogue includes essays by Adele Ghirri, Paola Ghirri, Homma Takashi, and Ilaria Campioli, along with plates, a chronology, and a list of works.

A comprehensive study of Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), renowned for his simple yet majestic still lifes. Written by a former student and teaching assistant of Morandi, the book covers his entire career within the sociopolitical and cultural context of Italian art movements including Futurism, Pittura Metafisica, and Novecento. It also explores Morandi's complex relationship with Fascist politics and patrons, and how his connections to that period were later obscured to establish him as apolitical in post-World War II Italy.

This is the first book-length study of Maekawa Kunio (1905–1986), one of the most distinctive leaders in Japan's modernist architectural community. The book traces Maekawa's career from his studies at Tokyo Imperial University and his time working with Le Corbusier in Paris, through his influential work in prewar and postwar Japan. Reynolds examines how Maekawa negotiated the tension between tradition and modernity, incorporating new technologies and building materials into modernist design ideology.

This is an exhibition catalogue published by the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Mingeikan) in Tokyo for a show held September 1 to October 28, 1990. It explores the profound influence of William Blake's poetry and paintings on Soetsu (Muneyoshi) Yanagi, the founder of the Japanese Mingei (folk crafts) movement, who first encountered Blake's work in 1906 at age 17. The catalogue includes color and monochrome reproductions of Blake's works, including illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy, alongside bilingual (Japanese and English) essays examining the philosophical and aesthetic connections between Blake and Yanagi.

A handbook published by Monocle and Gestalten exploring the concept of cosiness in homes around the world, featuring residences across beach, city, mountain, suburban, rural, community, and high-rise settings. The book profiles real homes lived in by real people across the globe, from Buenos Aires to Swedish archipelagos, celebrating durable, meaningful spaces that take knocks and scuffs in their stride. It also includes a directory of architects, furniture-makers, design shops, retailers, and places to inspire readers in creating their own cosy home.

AnOther Magazine Issue 41 for Autumn/Winter 2021, featuring Zoë Kravitz on the cover photographed by Collier Schorr and styled in Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. The issue includes fashion editorials for brands such as Miu Miu, Balenciaga, Gucci, and Vivienne Westwood, alongside contributions from artists and cultural figures including Travis Scott, Patti Smith, Marina Abramović, and Isamu Noguchi. The magazine blends high fashion photography with cultural commentary and art projects.

Fantastic Man is a biannual men's style and culture magazine, with issue No. 39 being the Autumn & Winter 2024 edition featuring Steve Lacy on the cover. The issue includes features on Rick Owens, Tyson Beckford, nightclub culture, and contributions from photographers including Wolfgang Tillmans. It combines fashion editorial with longform writing on culture, lifestyle, and personality profiles.

A comprehensive monograph documenting the 150-year history of Kaikado, a sixth-generation Kyoto family workshop renowned for their handcrafted tea caddies (chazutsu). The book covers the people, tools, manufacturing processes, and products of this storied craft atelier, with sections on their café and shop, told through photography and interviews. Published by Amsterdam-based ERG Media and printed in Belgium, it celebrates the timeless design and meticulous craftsmanship of one of Japan's most beloved artisan workshops.

A monograph documenting the 1616 / arita japan porcelain brand, celebrating the 400-year history of Arita ware from Saga Prefecture, Japan. The book bridges traditional Japanese ceramic craftsmanship with contemporary international design, featuring collaborations with global designers and collections. It includes essays, photography of kilns and craftsmen, designer profiles, and lifestyle imagery showcasing the porcelain in use.

This exhibition catalogue documents Anselm Kiefer's monumental installation 'The Women Alchemists' at the Sala delle Cariatidi in Palazzo Reale, Milan, featuring thirty-eight large canvases created specifically for the site. The exhibition, curated by art historian Gabriella Belli, explores women alchemists throughout history, myth, and science, celebrating pioneering female figures who challenged the conventions of their time. The show is part of the cultural events program celebrating the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina.

Soft Minimal is a monograph by Copenhagen-based Norm Architects that presents their human-centric design philosophy developed over 15 years. The book explores a sensory approach to architecture, interiors, and furniture through eight thematic chapters including 'Returning to Nature,' 'Light & Shadow,' and 'Embracing Time.' It features projects from around the world, including a Swedish retreat, a Japanese house, a Sri Lankan residence, and a Danish retail space, all unified by a commitment to minimalism that is warm, sensory, and enduring.

Stillness is an exploration of Japanese aesthetics in architecture and design from a Scandinavian perspective, created by Norm Architects. The book examines how two distant regions — Japan and Scandinavia — have developed similar approaches to design and architecture, sharing a respect for nature, a sensitivity to light, and a dedication to craft. Organized into sections covering concepts, dialogues, places, projects, and portraits, it is richly illustrated with photography by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen.

This is the exhibition catalog for 'Brancusi: Carving the Essence,' held at the Artizon Museum in Tokyo from March 30 to July 7, 2024. It documents the first comprehensive exhibition of Constantin Brancusi's work at a Japanese museum, featuring 79 sculptures, drawings, and photographs from the Brancusi Estate and international collections. The catalog includes scholarly essays on Brancusi's place in 19th- and 20th-century sculpture, his studio practice, and his connection to Isamu Noguchi, alongside archival photographs of his legendary Paris studio.

A monograph documenting Galerie Half, a renowned antique and design gallery located at 6811 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. The book showcases the gallery's curated collection of furniture, art, and objects spanning the primitive to the collectible, with an emphasis on purity of form, patina, and tactile quality. Published by Flammarion, it features photography by Shade Degges and includes a foreword by Tommy and Kathe Clements of Clements Design.

A landmark photography book featuring never-before-published photographs of the iconic Japanese writer Yukio Mishima taken by renowned photographer Kishin Shinoyama from early September to November 25, 1970 — the day of Mishima's dramatic death. The book includes sections on The Death of a Man, The Shield Society (Tate no Kai), and The Death of a Samurai, accompanied by texts by Mishima himself and artist Tadanori Yokoo. Edited by Ian Luna and designed by Chip Kidd, it serves as a profound visual document of Mishima's final months and his obsessions with death, masculinity, and Japanese identity.

A photography book documenting the ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) works of Yukio Namiki, a self-taught flower arranger born in Gunma Prefecture. The book is organized by the four seasons — Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter — and features a foreword by Bong Rae Lee, owner of Li-Do Antique Gallery, and a contribution by flower artist Toshiro Kawase. It is a limited edition of 800 copies, published in February 2025.

A monograph by Korean artist Chansong Kim (born 1988) featuring her oil paintings that explore the human body through fragmented, blurred figurative compositions. The book includes works depicting close-up body parts, landscapes, and figures, organized into sections such as 'Garden of Mistrust' and 'Enchan/Gap'. Published bilingually in English and French with an essay titled 'A duality of observation and being observed' by Mina Kim, Director of Pipe Gallery.

A critical monograph on American painter Leon Golub, examining his work from classically influenced early paintings through his powerful depictions of conflict, masculine aggression, and political violence. Published to accompany a major travelling retrospective exhibition in Ireland, England, and the United States, the book explores Golub's practice of 'critical realism' and his use of the body as a sign for social and psychic identity. Author Jon Bird, Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University, traces Golub's complex interweaving of high and popular art iconographic traditions.

This is the exhibition catalogue for the MONO-HA show held at Fondazione Mudima in Milan from May 21 to September 19, 2015. It documents the influential Japanese art movement known as Mono-ha ('School of Things'), which emerged in the late 1960s and featured artists such as Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Koji Enokura, and others who explored the relationships between materials and space. The book includes scholarly essays reconsidering the movement's history and significance, along with documentation of the artists' works.

A special commemorative publication marking the National Treasure designation of the 1001 Thousand Armed Kannon (Senju-Kannon) images at Sanjusangen-do temple in Kyoto. The book documents the Buddhist statues housed in the Sanjusangen-do hall, including the principal Kannon image, the 1000 standing Senju-Kannon statues, and the 28 guardian deities. It contains both Japanese and English text, with detailed photographs of individual statues, a layout diagram of deity positions, and historical information about the founding and rebuilding of the hall.

This is the exhibition catalogue for the retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent held at The National Art Center, Tokyo, from September 20 to December 11, 2023. Organized in full cooperation with the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, it presents an exhaustive introduction to the designer's timeless and most representative styles, including garments, accessories, drawings, and photographs. The book traces Saint Laurent's lengthy relationship with Japan and his revolutionary influence on women's fashion over nearly half a century.

An artist's book by Marlene Dumas conceived as an imaginary exhibition that did not yet happen in reality but existed in the imagination. The book juxtaposes Dumas's paintings and works on paper with black-and-white photographs of ancient Cycladic figurines from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, creating an anachronistic dialogue between the artist's figurative works and these abstracted prehistoric sculptures. Published in collaboration with NEON and the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, with design by Roger Willems.

This is an artist catalogue monograph for Japanese contemporary artist Yukomizo Miyuki, documenting her installation and sculptural works spanning from the mid-1990s through 2018. The book features documentation of her minimalist installations using materials such as plastic beads, fishing line, ink, and metal leaf boxes, shown in galleries and art spaces across Japan, the United States, and Taiwan. Published in an edition of 300 copies by ART OFFICE OZASA in October 2018, with text by Shoda Hiroko.

This is the exhibition free booklet for 'Edward Hopper: From City to Coast,' held at the Seoul Museum of Art from April 20 to August 20, 2023, co-organized with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The publication presents 270 works spanning Hopper's 65-year painting career, covering his time in Paris, New York, northern New England, and Cape Cod, with sections including curatorial essays, floor plans, and artwork reproductions. It serves as the first solo exhibition on Edward Hopper in Korea, exploring themes of solitude, light, shadow, and the American urban and rural landscape.

A travel memoir and photo book documenting Craig Mod's extensive walks across Japan, covering routes including Ise-Kaidō, Ise-ji, Nakahēchi, Kohechi, Ōmine Okugake-michi, and Ōhechi. The book is the second volume in the 'How to Walk Japan' series, combining lyrical prose with photography of rural Japanese landscapes, people, and places encountered along the way. Published as a special edition by Special Projects in Kamakura, it features a distinctive blue cloth cover with an embossed exploded-diagram illustration.

Other Thing is the third book in Craig Mod's 'How to Walk Japan' series, focusing on the people encountered along the Kii Peninsula — fishermen, repairwomen, inn owners, AMA divers, priests, mountain ascetics, and cafe folk. Published in Tokyo/Kamakura in 2025, the book combines photography (shot on film) with travel writing documenting walks through rural Japan. This is a signed, limited first edition, numbered 0207 of 1200 copies.

This publication accompanies a 2023 exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires exploring experimentation and renewal in Argentine modern dance during the 1960s. It pays tribute to pioneering dance masters and artists who brought modern dance to broad audiences and inspired younger generations. The book compiles essays by seventeen authors including historians, critics, and dancers, supported by two years of historical research, and features archival photographs and original graphic design posters from the era.

A artist book documenting the land art works of Japanese artist Shimabuku (島袋道浩), born in Kobe in 1969 and based in Naha, Okinawa. The book features photographic documentation of site-specific works created in natural and urban landscapes, including beach installations with driftwood, a large stone brought from Nibutani to Sapporo, and nocturnal light works. Published in March 2023, the book reflects Shimabuku's practice of creating poetic interventions that explore relationships between living things, places, and human communication.

A comprehensive documentation of the Benesse Art Site Naoshima project on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, covering the history and development of art installations, museums, and the Art House Project across Naoshima, Inujima, and Teshima islands. The book traces the transformation of these islands through contemporary art and architecture, including works at the Chichu Art Museum, Lee Ufan Museum, and various site-specific installations. It reflects the vision of Soichiro Fukutake to revitalize rural island communities through art and culture.

This is an exhibition catalogue published by the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, featuring an essay by Rolf Lauter titled 'Carl Andre: Extraneous Roots.' The book documents the work of American minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, including his steel plate installations, timber line works, and object sculptures from the 1960s onward. It includes bilingual text in German and English, along with black-and-white photographs of installations in various museum and outdoor contexts.

This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Carl Andre: Between Sculpture and Poetry,' shown at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art from March 9 to June 30, 2024. The book documents the minimalist sculptor Carl Andre's work, exploring the relationship between his three-dimensional sculptural practice and his concrete poetry. It features installation photographs of Andre's characteristic floor-based metal plate works and timber sculptures, published bilingually in Japanese and English.

Quiet Spaces places the work of architect William Smalley alongside spaces that have inspired him — places of private contemplation, calm spaces to read, listen to music, walk through, or simply be in. The book spans his own Bloomsbury Apartment and projects in the UK, France and New York, expanding to include work by other architects such as Palladio and Peter Zumthor, as well as spaces like Barbara Hepworth's garden and Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge. Photography is by Harry Crowder and Hélène Binet, with a foreword by Edmund de Waal.

A monograph documenting the extraordinary head creations and hair sculptures of Japanese artist Katsuya Kamo, who has collaborated with renowned designers including Chanel, Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons, and Undercover. The book is organized into themed chapters such as Garden, Paper Punk, Feather, Crown, and Chandelier, presenting black-and-white photographs of his sculptural headpieces made from materials including feathers, paper, metal, wood, and crystal. Kamo's ephemeral works, created for fashion shows and editorial photography, are celebrated here as poetic sculptural art pieces that define the silhouettes of contemporary fashion.

A catalog accompanying the exhibition curated jointly by Andrea Branzi and Kenya Hara for the XXI Triennale di Milano (April 2 – September 12, 2016). The book pairs 100 prehistoric and contemporary tools with 100 verbs — presented in English, Italian, and Japanese — exploring the history of human desires and humankind's evolving relationship with tools from the Stone Age to the present. Each spread features a verb defined in three languages alongside a dramatic black-background photograph of a tool or object, reflecting on intelligence, stupidity, cruelty, and cunning as expressed through material culture.

A comprehensive monograph by Kenya Hara, art director of MUJI and one of Japan's most influential graphic designers, exploring his philosophy and practice of design. The book covers major themes including RE-DESIGN, HAPTIC, SENSEWARE, WHITE, MUJI, and EXFORMATION, examining how design communicates through the senses and how ordinary objects can be reimagined. Hara presents design as a way of discovering and awakening our perception of the everyday world, blending Japanese aesthetic sensibility with contemporary design thinking.

A monograph published as part of the IDEA Archive series focusing on the work of renowned Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara. The book covers key projects including his work for MUJI (無印良品), hospital signage systems, the Nagano Winter Olympics program, and various book designs, organized around themes such as 'Invention of White' and 'Encounters with Everyday Lives'. It includes essays by Hara, a long interview, and commentary from eight designers influenced by him.

A meditative exploration of 'whiteness' by renowned Japanese designer Kenya Hara, Art Director of MUJI, in which he collects and reflects upon one hundred manifestations of white — from bone and milk to tofu and squid — through short essays. The book approaches white not as a color but as a sensibility or mentality, examining how whiteness permeates Japanese culture, aesthetics, food, nature, and everyday objects. Published bilingually with Japanese characters (白百) on the cover, the work is itself a design object, printed with restrained elegance befitting its subject.

A philosophical and aesthetic exploration of the color white by renowned Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara, art director of MUJI. The book examines white as a sensory experience, its relationship to emptiness (ma), paper, and Japanese aesthetics across four chapters. Hara uses whiteness as a lens to investigate concepts of perception, communication, and the essence of Japanese design philosophy.

An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the Jean Prouvé retrospective held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from July 16 to October 16, 2022. The bilingual (Japanese/English) volume documents Prouvé's innovative work spanning furniture design and architecture, including iconic pieces such as the Standard Chair and prefabricated housing projects. Supervised by Galerie Patrick Seguin and Tomotsu Yagi Design, it presents Prouvé's constructive philosophy through photographs, essays, and detailed documentation of his key works.

A Japanese-language monograph dedicated to the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901–1984), published by Pen Magazine. The book covers his iconic furniture designs including the Standard Chair, Cité Series, Antony Series, and various tables, as well as his architectural projects, with bilingual text in English and Japanese. It explores the affinities between Prouvé's design philosophy and Japanese aesthetics, featuring photographs of original pieces from private collections and galleries.

A bilingual (English and Japanese) collection of four lectures on typography by Emil Ruder, the master of Swiss typography, originally written in German between 1957 and 1959 and published in Typografische Monatsblätter. The book covers four fundamental topics: the plane, the line, the word, and rhythm. It was translated and republished as a series in Idea magazine in 2012 before being compiled into this volume.

Issue 333 of the Japanese international graphic art and design magazine 'idea', published in March 2009, dedicated entirely to Swiss typographer and design educator Emil Ruder (1914–1970). The issue presents a comprehensive survey of Ruder's typography and philosophy, covering his work at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel, his writings, his teaching methodology, and his influence on Swiss typography and the International Style. It includes bilingual content in Japanese and English, along with reproductions of his posters, printed matter, and educational materials.

Issue 343 (November 2010) of the long-running Japanese international graphic art and typography magazine 'idea'. This issue features a special focus on designer Nobuhiro Yamaguchi and a second feature on typography, including coverage of Typographische Monatsblätter (TM), the Swiss typography journal Octavo, books on typography, and a critical examination of sans-serif typefaces including Replica, New Rail Alphabet, and Neutral. The magazine presents bilingual content in Japanese and English, showcasing international graphic design and type design history.

A collaborative work between renowned product designer Naoto Fukasawa and photographer Tamotsu Fujii, exploring the concept of the 'outline' — the invisible boundary between objects and the air that surrounds them. The book features Fujii's photographs of Fukasawa's designs, capturing the atmospheric essence and unseen contours of everyday objects. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo from October 2009 to January 2010.

A beautifully photographed survey of contemporary Japanese ceramic art, exploring the forms and philosophies behind utsuwa (vessels) including bowls, dishes, pots, teabowls, sake bottles, and jars. The book features works by prominent Japanese ceramicists including Atsushi Ogata, Ryo Aoki, Shigeyoshi Morioka, Yuji Muraki, and others, alongside ceramic interviews and studio photography. It reflects on the intimate relationship between the human hand and the creation of ceramic forms, presented bilingually in Japanese and English.

A sculpture collection book featuring the wooden figurative works of Japanese sculptor Hideo Sawada, born in 1955 in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. Sawada studied at Tokyo University of the Arts and later in Germany on a DAAD scholarship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg under Prof. Christian Höpfner, becoming a Meisterschüler in 1989. The book documents his minimalist, elongated human figures carved in wood, photographed by Ian Orgias and designed by Tetsuya Yazist of colonbooks.

A compilation of three of Bruno Munari's classic works — Il Quadrato (1960), Il Cerchio (1964), and Il Triangolo (1976) — exploring the square, circle, and triangle as fundamental geometric forms. Each section examines the shape's mathematical properties, cultural symbolism, historical significance, and appearances in nature, art, and architecture. The book serves as both a visual and intellectual exploration of basic forms that underpin all of design and art.

The New Order is a Spring/Summer 2014 fashion and culture magazine featuring photography by Kenneth Cappello shot on Impossible Project instant film. The issue includes interviews with designers such as Takahiro Miyashita (TheSoloist), features on brands including Alexander Wang, BWGH, and Wacko Maria, and contributions from a wide range of international photographers and creatives. The cover image, titled 'nothing is impossible,' was shot by Kenneth Cappello using Polaroid-style instant film.

Puss Puss is an independent fashion and culture magazine themed around cats, published in London. Issue 1 features interviews with figures such as Ai Weiwei discussing art, activism and cats, alongside fashion editorials, articles on tattoo culture, cat breeding genetics, and a feature on the endangered Clouded Leopard conservation project. The magazine blends high fashion photography with cultural editorial content, all united by a feline theme.

White Zinfandel is an arts magazine published by W/— Projects, with this fourth issue themed around 'La Grande Bouffe,' inspired by Marco Ferreri's 1973 film—in which food is “the last hope hidden in the despair of living.”Exploring excess, criticism of the bourgeoisie, and the end of nostalgia, the issue features contributions from artists, curators, and cultural figures including Marina Abramovic, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Frédéric Malle, Sissel Tolaas, and many others offering loose interpretations of the theme. Published Spring/Summer 2013, it represents an international group of contributors exploring themes of excess, extremism, and cultural critique through various artistic mediums.

A comprehensive monograph on the life and work of Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, written and edited by his children Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. The book presents a full mapping of Rothko's career across all media, featuring a substantial collection of plates including iconic color field paintings, along with scholarly essays and personal memoir. Published by Rizzoli Electa, it represents an unprecedented survey of Rothko's work unconstrained by exhibition or institutional limitations.

A collection of watercolor, wash, and ink works by Swedish-born artist Mats Gustafson exploring the stripped-down human body, begun during the AIDS epidemic in 1989. The book features approximately fifty works depicting men and women in intimate, vulnerable poses rendered in Gustafson's signature fluid style. Published to coincide with an exhibition at MA2 Gallery in Tokyo (November 17 – December 27, 2017), with an essay by Christopher Bollen.

CHAMP Issue 10, titled 'The Champion Women Edition,' is a bi-annual printed global culture journal based in Tokyo and London, created entirely by an all-women team. The issue features top 23 global power women, a Portrait City Series spanning cities from Basel to Moscow, and content covering Fondazione Prada, Phoebe English, artist Xiang Jing, the Venice Biennale, Louise Bourgeois at the Haus der Kunst, and architecture pioneer Lina Bo Bardi. The magazine is published in both English and Japanese, celebrating remarkable female creatives across fashion, art, architecture, and culture worldwide.

A special edition (Hors Série 30) of Vogue Hommes Paris for Fall/Winter 2019-2020, centered around the theme of black in fashion. The issue features fashion editorials including 'Flanders' photographed by Willy Vanderperre, 'Anonymous Dreamers', 'Roman Roamings', and editorial content including interviews with Miuccia Prada, Patti Smith, and dancer Lil Buck, as well as features on Brad Pitt and artist Pierre Soulages.

The Autumn 2021 issue of Esquire UK featuring Tom Hardy on the cover, shot in black and white. The issue includes features on menswear, watches, automobiles, architecture, fiction by Joshua Ferris, and articles by contributors including Simon Garfield on typography and Will Self. Regular sections cover bulletin items on watches, hi-fi speakers, wine, and fashion alongside longer journal and feature pieces.

Issue 2 (Autumn/Winter 2011) of Boat Magazine, an independent publication self-described as 'an antidote to lazy journalism,' focused entirely on Detroit, Michigan. The issue features contributions from notable writers and artists including Jeffrey Eugenides, Megan Abbott, and Alex Winston, exploring the city's culture, music, urban decay, and resilience beyond the typical 'ruin porn' media narrative. Content includes photo essays, music coverage (Detroit's sound in 10 LPs), poetry, and stories about the people and places that make up Motor City.

An anthology celebrating the tenth anniversary of Fantastic Man magazine, featuring 69 profiles, portraits, and interviews with some of the world's most charismatic and style-conscious men, including Tom Ford, Ewan McGregor, David Beckham, Rem Koolhaas, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The book compiles material from the biannual magazine's archive across four chapters, with photography by renowned image-makers such as Inez & Vinoodh, Bruce Weber, and Juergen Teller. It offers a distinctive and straightforward view of modern men and modern times through both editorial and archival content.

A monograph documenting the furniture design work of fashion designer Rick Owens, featuring photography of his pieces in gallery and studio settings. The book includes an introduction by Rick Owens, interviews conducted by Robin Sayers and Rima Sugi, and quotes throughout by Michele Lamy (aka Hun), Owens' longtime partner and collaborator. It traces the evolution of their raw, brutalist aesthetic furniture from early Hollywood days through their Paris years.

A 10th Anniversary special edition of Hercules Universal, a Barcelona and New York-based men's fashion and lifestyle magazine. This double-volume twentieth issue features a 40-plus-page portfolio by iconic photographer Bruce Weber celebrating masculinity and style, alongside interviews with figures such as actor Zachary Quinto and architect Ricardo Bofill. The issue is a celebration of a decade of the magazine's Mediterranean approach to men's fashion and culture.

A data visualization and infographic book that catalogs and illustrates the physical and systemic instruments of control and oppression used around the world, including walls and fences, refugee camps, crowd control measures, prison cells, and capital punishment. Through technical drawings and diagrams, the book examines topics such as border infrastructure, terrorist groups, and demolition, presenting them with the clinical precision of an architectural handbook. Author Theo Deutinger frames the work as a critical tool for understanding and ultimately fighting tyranny by making its mechanisms visible.

A photobook by Yamamoto Masao featuring bonsai trees photographed in atmospheric, sepia-toned black and white images that place the miniature trees within expansive natural landscapes. Accompanied by text by bonsai artist Akiyama Minoru, including an essay titled 'My 40 Years with Bonsai,' the book explores the philosophical relationship between the microcosm of bonsai and the macrocosm of nature. The book is beautifully crafted with Japanese stab binding, textured covers, and printed on fine paper.

A fine art collotype portfolio by Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao featuring intimate photographs of birds. The portfolio contains multiple prints produced using the rare collotype printing process by Benrido, each printed on different colored papers including Snow white, Bronze, Peach, Canary yellow, Iron blue, and Rose grey. The works showcase Yamamoto's characteristic minimalist aesthetic, depicting birds perched on bare trees and poles with a quiet, contemplative mood.

A Japanese edition photography book by Yamamoto Masao, originally published by Editorial RM (Mexico/Barcelona). The book features intimate black-and-white photographs of small, quiet subjects — ceramics, seascapes, birds in flight — organized into thematic chapters such as 'Tranquility,' evoking a meditative, wabi-sabi sensibility. The work reflects the artist's contemplative approach to finding meaning in small, everyday things observed in silence.

A comprehensive monograph presenting thirty of Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen's most significant works from 2009 to 2018, including elegant residences in Europe, New York, Paris, and The Hamptons, as well as larger-scale commercial and public projects. The book features 369 illustrations captured by renowned photographers Hélène Binet and François Halard, alongside essays exploring Van Duysen's contribution to contemporary architecture. Product and furniture designs, yacht interiors, and objets décoratifs are also included, reflecting the architect's rigorous attention to detail and refined spatial mastery.

A visual history book collecting drawings, sketches, and paintings of UFO sightings from the UK Ministry of Defence's National Archives, which ran for over 60 years collating mysterious sightings reported by members of the public. Author David Clarke, a Reader and Principal Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, presents selected examples from the archive including handwritten witness accounts accompanied by their original illustrations. The book is part of the Four Corners Irregulars series, a collection of visual histories of modern British culture.

A collection of photographs from the Luigi Ghirri archive, curated by Roberto Lombardi and published by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice. The book features Ghirri's iconic color photographs of everyday Italian landscapes, including small towns, rural scenes, and urban environments from the 1980s and early 1990s. A small boxed set containing collated photographic prints and postcards reproducing works from the Ghirri fund.

A compact, illustrated guide presenting 101 concise lessons about architecture and design, organized as paired spreads with hand-drawn illustrations on the left and text on the right. The book covers a wide range of topics from design principles and drawing techniques to presentation skills, philosophical concepts like the zeitgeist, and quotes from influential architects. Written for architecture students but accessible to anyone interested in architectural thinking and design.

Tokyo Style is a photographic documentary by Kyoichi Tsuzuki capturing the real, everyday living spaces of Tokyo residents — small, cluttered, and lived-in apartments that contrast sharply with idealized depictions of Japanese interiors. Originally published in 1993 by Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd, this 2024 edition republished by Apartamento presents the intimate reality of urban Japanese domestic life organized into chapters such as 'Beauty in chaos,' 'The traditional touch,' 'Monomaniacs,' and 'Hermitages.' The book challenges Western romanticized notions of Japanese aesthetics by celebrating the chaotic, personal, and functional nature of how people actually live in one of the world's most expensive cities.

Design Dreams is a curated compendium of virtual interior and architectural environments created by CGI artists and designers from around the world, showcasing digitally rendered spaces that exist only in the virtual realm. The book highlights the work of prominent creators such as Charlotte Taylor, Joe Mortell, Hugo Fournier, and many others, featuring projects ranging from dreamlike bedrooms and villas to fantastical landscapes. It explores how digital tools and social media platforms have enabled a new generation of designers to visualize and share compelling architectural visions unconstrained by real-world limitations.

A special extra issue of Casa Brutus magazine dedicated to the celebrated Japanese architect Tadao Ando, covering his major works across global cities including New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Milan, Venice, and Shanghai. The publication is organized into seven chapters covering topics such as Ando's legendary residential works, interviews, museum projects, worldwide projects, Tokyo works, his tree-planting initiative, and a travel guide to his Japanese buildings. It includes a comprehensive best architecture guide cataloging 47 Japanese works, 20 international works, and 9 residential projects.

A special issue of the Japanese architecture magazine a+u (Architecture and Urbanism) dedicated to 33 historic and modern Japanese teahouses. The volume features detailed photographs, floor plans, interior elevations, and sections of renowned chashitsu (tea rooms), spanning from the classic works of Sen no Rikyū and Kobori Enshū to contemporary examples. Essays by guest editor Kirosako Kunio explore the relationship between teahouse architecture, nature, and Japanese tea ceremony culture.

A comprehensive catalog accompanying an exhibition that showcases 75 detached houses designed by architects in Japan since 1945, organized into 14 thematic sections such as 'Japaneseness,' 'Earthy Concrete,' 'Play,' and 'Family Critiques.' The book documents the evolution of Japanese residential architecture through the post-war recovery, economic boom, and bubble economy periods, featuring over 400 models, plans, photographs, and videos. Originally conceived in Tokyo, the exhibition traveled to venues including the Barbican Centre in London and the 21st Century Arts in Rome.

This is a catalog accompanying an exhibition on legendary residential architecture in postwar Japan, featuring iconic houses designed between the 1950s and 1970s. The book profiles significant works by major Japanese architects including Kazuo Shinohara, Kisho Kurokawa, Kazunari Sakamoto, and others, with large-format photography of both exteriors and interiors. It explores how these houses challenged conventional notions of dwelling and reflected the social and cultural transformations of postwar Japan.

GA Houses is an international architectural magazine published in Japan focusing on contemporary residential architecture. Issue 192 includes projects such as Mark Jensen with Johanna Grawunder's David Kelley’s Stanford Residence, Fran Silvestre's Empty House, works by Makoto Tanijiri + Ai Yoshida/Suppose Design Office, and projects by architects including Gregorius Supie Yolodi, Waro Kishi, Ippei Takahashi, Andra Matin, and others. The magazine presents each project with extensive photography, floor plans, and bilingual (English/Japanese) editorial content.

GA Houses is a Japanese architectural publication dedicated to residential architecture from around the world. Issue 160 features projects including Peter Stutchbury's Bay Guarella House and Indian Head House, Marmol Radziner's Mandeville Canyon Residence, Ken Yokogawa + Toshio Kunieda's Quattro Cube in Tokyo, Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architects' Conversion House in Ascona, Gus Wüstemann's House Z22 and Warehouse F88 in Zurich, and Sean Godsell's House in the Hills and House on the Coast. The publication presents each project through high-quality architectural photography accompanied by bilingual Japanese and English text.

GA Houses is an international architectural magazine published in Japan focusing on contemporary residential architecture. Issue 159 features works by Alberto Kalach (multiple Mexican projects including Barranca Valle, Studio in Oaxaca, Escondido, and Zicatela), Ryue Nishizawa, bgp arquitectura, Taketo Shimohigoshi, Kozo Kadowaki, and Luke Ogrydziak + Zoé Prillinger. It also includes a special section on 'Highlight of Villages and Towns: #5 Italy II' with documentary photography of Italian hillside towns.

GA Houses is a Japanese architectural periodical focusing on residential architecture from around the world. Issue 158 features projects including the Library House by Atelier Branco Arquitetura, Hakone Fujimidai Project by Hirotaka Kidosaki, Ubatuba House II by spbr arquitetos, House PE and House TR by Andrade Morettin, and several other notable residential projects from Brazil, Japan, and Italy. The publication presents each project with detailed photography, floor plans, axonometric drawings, and bilingual text in Japanese and English.

Issue 117 of The Japan Architect (Spring 2020) dedicated to the work of Japanese modernist architect Kunio Maekawa (1905-1986). The issue examines Maekawa's architectural identity through four lenses: the influence of Le Corbusier, his unique spatial approach to Japanese tradition within modernism, his synthesizing stance transcending modernism and localism, and his liberated design approach. Featured works include the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall, Kyoto Hall, Kanagawa Prefectural Library and Music Hall, and 22 other significant projects.

This is issue 93 (Spring 2014) of The Japan Architect (JA), dedicated entirely to the complete works of Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (篠原一男), presented through original publications. The issue documents 55 works ranging from early residential projects like the House in Kugayama to larger institutional buildings, accompanied by original photographs, drawings, and Shinohara's own written commentaries. It also includes an essay titled 'The Whereabouts of Metalanguage Architecture — Revisitation: House is Art' by Shin-ichi Okuyama.

Space Magazine is a biannual publication focused on extraordinary people and places, with this issue featuring minimalist architect John Pawson as its cover subject, including a visit to his first architectural project, Neuendorf House in Mallorca. The issue also includes features on photographer Sally Mann documenting Cy Twombly's studio, photographer Brett Lloyd exploring Naples, Danish designer Erik Magnussen, and various other artists, designers, and collectors. The magazine combines architecture, design, photography, and travel content with a refined aesthetic sensibility.

This book brings together fifty never-before-seen images created by artist and composer John Cage at the 1988 Mountain Lake Workshop, where paper towels used as try-out sheets for watercolor paintings were serendipitously preserved as artworks. The images are juxtaposed with the classic Zen 'Ten Ox-Herding Pictures' alongside fragments of Cage's poetry, lectures, and reflections from colleagues, exploring the deep influence of Zen Buddhism on his life and work. Essays by Ray Kass and Stephen Addiss provide context for this unique collaboration connecting Cage's visual art with nearly one-thousand-year-old Zen visual tradition.

A fine art photography book by David Parker featuring dramatic desert landscapes, particularly focusing on extraordinary rock formations in the Sahara desert. The book combines Parker's panoramic sepia-toned photographs with essays by mythologist Marina Warner ('Singing Each to Each') and Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni ('The Errant Twin', 'Desert Discourse', 'Visiting Death'). The work explores the mythological resonance of ancient desert landscapes, presenting rock formations as totemic, almost anthropomorphic figures.

A facsimile reprint of Alexander Calder's first book, originally published in New York in 1926 by Bridgman Publishers. The book is an illustrated manual on how to draw animals, covering subjects such as cats, dogs, elephants, horses, and lions, with Calder's characteristic gestural line drawings. The edition includes a postface by Arnauld Pierre and French translations of the original texts, and is published by Editions Dilecta, Paris.

This exhibition catalogue documents the 'Men's Rings, Collection Yves Gastou' exhibition organized by L'ECOLE, School of Jewelry Arts (supported by Van Cleef & Arpels), held at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Gallery 3 in Tokyo. The book explores approximately 300 men's rings from the Yves Gastou collection, organized around five themes: History, Gothic, Christian Mystique, Vanitas, and Eclecticism. Bilingual in English and Japanese, it traces the history of men's rings from antiquity through the modern era, examining their cultural, spiritual, and symbolic significance across civilizations.

Offscreen is an independent print magazine subtitled 'People Behind Bits and Pixels' that profiles individuals working at the intersection of technology and design. Issue 11 features long-form interviews with Mark Hurrell, Joyce Kim, Khoi Vinh, Björn Jeffery, Kris Piotrowski, and Dave Pell, among others. The magazine is published in Melbourne, Australia and focuses on thoughtful, human-centered perspectives on technology, the web, and digital culture.

Offscreen is an independent print magazine focused on the people and culture behind the web and digital design industry. Issue No. 6 features interviews with notable figures including Daniel Burka, Jeff Veen, Joshua Topolsky, Matt Wigham, Jenna Brinning, and Jon Lax, exploring their careers, philosophies, and creative processes. The magazine aims to humanize the tech and web design community by profiling the individuals shaping the digital world.

A collection of responses to the famous Proust Questionnaire from 101 prominent cultural figures including Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Ray Charles, Paul Newman, and many others. The questionnaire, originating as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, probes subjects on love, death, happiness, and the meaning of life. Each entry is accompanied by a stylized illustrated portrait by artist Robert Risko.

This book documents the Olivetti Showroom in St Mark's Square, Venice, designed by architect Carlo Scarpa, and its conservation and restoration. Published by FAI (the Italian National Trust) in partnership with Assicurazioni Generali, it covers the architectural significance of the space, the conservation works undertaken, and the history of Adriano Olivetti as an enlightened industrialist. The book includes historical black-and-white photographs showing the showroom as originally fitted with Olivetti typewriters and calculators, alongside color images of the restored interior.

This publication from the MAXXI Architecture Archives series explores the deep connection between Italian architect Carlo Scarpa and Japan, examining his visits, his fascination with Japanese culture and architecture, and the mutual admiration between Scarpa and Japanese architects and critics. It accompanies an exhibition held at MAXXI from November 2016 to April 2017, featuring documents, photographs, and essays on topics including Scarpa's photographs of the Ise Grand Shrine and testimonies from those who knew him. The book is bilingual in Italian and English.

This is the official exhibition catalogue for 'Lucio Fontana / Antony Gormley,' a collateral event of the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, held at the Olivetti Showroom, St. Mark's Square, Venice, from April 20 to November 27, 2022. The book explores a dialogue between the two artists' works, focusing on themes of body, space, and architecture within the context of Carlo Scarpa's iconic Negozio Olivetti space. It includes a conversation between curator Luca Massimo Barbero and Antony Gormley, exhibition photography, and archival drawings by Lucio Fontana related to his Spazialismo manifesto.

A monograph documenting the architectural works of Japanese architect Koh Kitayama, exploring his concept of 'in-between' spaces in architecture. The book includes residential projects, housing complexes, apartments, competition entries, and urban design projects, presented through photographs, plans, sections, and bilingual (Japanese/English) texts. Projects range from individual houses to larger residential complexes and international competition entries, including a contribution to the Venice Biennale.

CLOG is an architectural journal, and this issue is dedicated entirely to Brutalism — the bold concrete architectural movement that peaked in the 1960s-70s. The publication includes essays, interviews, and visual analyses covering topics such as the history, economics, and aesthetics of Brutalism, featuring buildings and architects from around the world. It includes data visualizations such as 'Brutalism by Year & Type,' photography, and critical writing on preservation and demolition of Brutalist structures.

A monograph by the renowned Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma & Associates, exploring the concept of organic architecture. The book is organized into sections covering Contour, Texture, and Organization, preceded by an essay by Kengo Kuma titled 'From Erasing Architecture to Organic Architecture.' It features projects from the firm including buildings in Italy, Japan, and other locations, presented through photography, architectural models, and poetic descriptions.

A comprehensive monograph documenting the complete works of renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, with an essay by architectural historian Kenneth Frampton titled 'The Anti-Objective Architecture of Kengo Kuma.' The book organizes Kuma's projects thematically by material — Water-Glass, Wood-Grass-Bamboo, and Stone-Earth-Ceramic — showcasing his philosophy of integrating natural materials with built environments. Originally published in 2012 and reprinted in 2017, it includes photographs, architectural drawings, and a chronological list of projects.

A photography monograph by Italian photographer Marcello Grassi, featuring striking black-and-white photographs of ancient sculptures and archaeological artifacts from Italian museums, including the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and the Musei Reali, Museo di Antichità di Torino. The title translates to 'Archaeology of the Gaze,' reflecting the artist's exploration of ancient forms through a contemporary photographic lens. The book is trilingual (Italian, English, Romanian) and was edited by Ilaria Bignotti, published as a project by IAGA (Italian Association of Gallery of Art).

Area is an Italian international architecture and design magazine. Issue 178 is themed around 'stone' as an architectural material, featuring projects by firms including Renzo Piano Building Workshop, David Chipperfield Architects, KAAN Architecten, and others. The issue also includes a 'design focus' supplement on material and surface, and a Phoenix architectural itinerary section.

A curated guide to inspiring residences around the world, compiled by Monocle magazine. The book features tours of standout homes from Lebanon to Indonesia, essays by writers and designers on living spaces, and sections on greenery, materials, community, details, and designs for living. It is accompanied by photography of interiors and exteriors showcasing fine architecture and craftsmanship.

A photography book featuring Zoé Kravitz and Jeremy Allen White, shot by photographer Henrik Purienne for Saint Laurent. The book was imagined, designed, and curated by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, featuring black-and-white imagery including shots in Paris with the Eiffel Tower and YSL accessories. It is a limited edition of 2000 copies, printed in France in July 2024.

A limited edition photography book by Henrik Purienne, curated by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, featuring images from the Women Summer 23 Collection campaign. The book presents black-and-white and color photographs of models including Anja Rubik, Charlotte Lawrence, Iris Law, and Laura Harrier, among others, in sensual, sun-drenched settings. Printed in a limited edition of 1500 copies, the book was produced in collaboration with The(M) Editions and Bureau Kayser.

Kinfolk Issue 46 (Winter 2022) is an Interiors Special themed around the idea of making space for what matters most. The issue features 10 extraordinary residences across five continents — including remote farmhouses in Japan and England, modernist masterpieces in California, and a guesthouse in Senegal — alongside interviews with fashion designers Samuel Ross and Charles de Vilmorin, and profiles on figures such as cook Deb Perelman and architect Hassan Fathy. Regular sections include Starters, Features, Interiors, and Directory, with the interiors section covering stories such as Bush Modernism, Gothic Revival, Cairo Calm, and Heritage Craft.

Kinfolk Issue 45 (Fall 2022) is themed around 'The Great Outdoors,' exploring humanity's relationship with nature through interviews, essays, and visual stories. Features include profiles of garden designer Piet Oudolf, yoga instructor Adriene Mishler, actress Zawe Ashton, a home tour of an antiques-filled Paris apartment owned by Ollivier and Gladys Chenel, and explorations of rewilding, archaeology, and outdoor living. The issue blends lifestyle, culture, and nature writing with high-quality photography and elegant design.

Kinfolk Issue 43 (Spring 2022) is 'The Mind Issue,' exploring the complexities of the human mind including psychedelics research, cognitive tricks, and mental wellness. The issue features profiles of designer Rose Uniacke and Vincent Van Duysen, fashion shoots in São Paulo and Taiwan, and essays on contemporary culture. It includes a special section dedicated to the mind with interviews with psychiatrist David Erritzoe and Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan.

Kinfolk Issue 41 (Fall 2021) is themed around the Mediterranean, exploring 'new narratives from a storied sea' across 22 countries and 30,000 miles of coastline. Features include stories on Italian cowboys in Tuscany, a Beirut lighthouse keeper, Moroccan cinema, search and rescue at sea, Lebanese winemaking, and interviews with figures such as Michèle Lamy and architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. The issue balances aspirational lifestyle imagery with socially conscious reporting, including coverage of the NGO Sea-Watch and the dangerous North Africa to Europe sea crossing.

Kinfolk Issue 38 (Winter 2020) is themed around 'Rituals,' exploring old and new ceremonies and how ritual binds communities and marks life transitions. The issue features interviews with Miranda July, Abby Stein, Rina Sawayama, and Max Richter, along with features on witchcraft, internet folklore, and a home tour of Arcosanti, Arizona's experimental desert community. It also includes six newly created rituals developed in collaboration with Silicon Valley's Ritual Design Lab.

Kinfolk Issue 37 (Fall 2020) is themed around Nature, exploring everything from wilderness to windowsill plants and how to find roots in the world around you. The issue features interviews with Haatepah Clearbear on Indigenous climate activism, Ron Finley the urban gardener, Mona Chalabi, Anne Tyler, and Helen Frankenthaler, alongside features on dreamscapes, dried flowers, and Instagram pets. Published during a period of global lockdown, the issue pivots creatively to celebrate local and intimate encounters with nature.

Kinfolk Issue 36 (Summer 2020) focuses on the theme of Movement, exploring how people use physical motion in innovative and meaningful ways. The issue features interviews with Jenny Slate, Phoebe Bridgers, choreographer Marion Motin, conductor Roderick Cox, and skateboarder Alexis Sablone, among others. It includes a fashion editorial shot on the volcanic coastline of Madeira and reflects on how COVID-19 reshaped our relationship with our bodies and communal movement.

Kinfolk is a slow lifestyle magazine published by Ouur, exploring ways for readers to simplify their lives, cultivate community, and spend more time with friends and family. This particular issue, 'The Essentials Issue,' focuses on what truly matters in life — from a sense of belonging and community to taking life less seriously. The magazine features beautifully photographed interior spaces, food recipes such as a watermelon salad with cilantro, ginger and chili, and thoughtful editorial content.

A retrospective hardcover book celebrating a decade of Kinfolk magazine, compiled by Editor in Chief John Burns with Art Director Staffan Sundström. The book curates the most compelling photography, fashion, interiors, and visual storytelling from across 50+ issues of the influential lifestyle publication. It features an introduction titled 'A Decade in Print' and showcases the magazine's signature aesthetic of intentional, minimalist living.

A comprehensive guide to artisan bread and pizza baking by Portland-based baker Ken Forkish. The book covers everything from basic straight doughs to advanced levain breads and Neapolitan-style pizzas, with detailed formulas and techniques tested for the home baker. It includes tutorials on baker's percentages, pre-ferments, and levain cultivation, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced bakers.

The April 2016 issue of Decanter, billed as 'the world's best wine magazine,' focuses on Pinot Noir with a major feature on the world's best Pinot Noirs outside Burgundy. The issue also covers Beaune reds, the Decanter Man of the Year 2016, a tale of two Pichons in Pauillac, California wine names to know, and a buying guide featuring St-Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage, Alto Adige whites, and Alsace Pinot Gris.

A beautifully designed cocktail recipe book featuring 100 non-alcoholic cocktail recipes using Seedlip, the world's first distilled non-alcoholic spirit. The book is organized around Seedlip's three blends — Spice 94, Garden 108, and Grove 42 — with recipes contributed by the world's best bartenders. Highly illustrated with photography by Rob Lawson and design by Smith & Gilmour, it also covers ingredients, techniques, shrubs, and syrups.

The second cookbook by British chef Jamie Oliver, subtitled 'Maximum Flavor with Minimum Effort,' featuring recipes for pasta, risotto, fish, meat, vegetables, bread, and desserts. The book emphasizes accessible, unpretentious cooking with bold flavors and simple techniques. It was the companion book to his Food Network television series and includes chapters on tapas, soups, salads, and more.

A comprehensive guide to the art of charcuterie, covering traditional and contemporary techniques for salting, smoking, and curing meats. The book includes classic recipes such as duck confit, sausages, prosciutto, pancetta, pâté de campagne, and many more, as well as modern interpretations. Written by food writer Michael Ruhlman and artisan chef Brian Polcyn, with a foreword by Thomas Keller of The French Laundry.

A comprehensive Italian cookbook by celebrity chef Mario Batali featuring 327 recipes organized by course, from antipasto through dolci (desserts). The book covers a wide range of Italian dishes including pasta, fish, fowl, meat, vegetables, and more, with photography by Beatriz Da Costa. It also includes a section on Italian wine, a glossary, equipment guide, and sources.

Fäviken is a cookbook by Magnus Nilsson documenting his acclaimed remote Swedish restaurant, Fäviken Magasinet, located in Jämtland. The book covers the restaurant's philosophy of hyper-local, seasonal cooking through sections on meat, fish, plants, and dairy, with detailed notes on sourcing, aging, and preparation techniques. Featuring striking photography by Erik Olsson and design by Yokoland, it is both a culinary manual and a portrait of a unique place and its food culture.

A cookbook by Michelin-starred chef Mourad Lahlou, owner of the San Francisco restaurant Aziza, that reimagines traditional Moroccan cuisine with a modern Californian sensibility. The book is structured as two books in one, beginning with seven foundational lessons on Moroccan cooking essentials such as spice blends, preserved lemons, couscous, harissa, and tagines, followed by a full collection of recipes. Drawing on his memories of growing up in Marrakesh, Lahlou bridges tradition and innovation to create what he calls 'New Moroccan' cooking.

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at elBulli, once considered the most influential restaurant in the world, documenting a complete day from daybreak through service with over 1,000 colour photographs. The book reveals the inner workings of Ferran Adrià's kitchen, including recipes, creative methods, food philosophy, and the history of elBulli. This updated paperback edition (reprinted 2010) includes a new foreword examining the decision to close the restaurant in 2011 and its evolution into the elBullifoundation culinary think tank.

A comprehensive guide to meat written by renowned British chef and food campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, covering animal husbandry, butchery, and cooking. The book includes detailed diagrams of cuts for various animals, recipes ranging from braised lamb shanks to cotechino sausage, and advocates for understanding the source and ethics of one's food. Photography throughout the book is by Simon Wheeler, and it was originally published in Great Britain in 2004 before this revised US edition.

A debut cookbook by Chef Christian F. Puglisi documenting the philosophy and cuisine of his acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant Relæ, opened in 2010. Rather than a traditional recipe collection, the book is structured around interconnected 'idea essays' exploring ingredients, techniques, and culinary philosophies, with each essay connected to dishes served at the restaurant. The book challenges conventional cookbook formats, offering readers a glimpse into the mind of a pioneering chef known for his plant-centric, sustainable, and unpretentious approach to fine dining.

A highly personal journal kept by René Redzepi, head chef and co-founder of the world-famous restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, documenting a year of daily life including the highs and lows of running one of the world's best restaurants. Written when Redzepi was burned-out and exhausted, it candidly captures the creative process, team dynamics, struggles and determination behind Noma's success. The book also includes recipes that showcase the team's creative achievements, along with a foreword by Lars Ulrich.

A heritage cookbook celebrating the recipes of Madam Ambrose Krishnan, a self-taught cook from Singapore whose family roots trace back to Pondicherry (South India), Kerala, and Mauritius. The book covers a wide range of South Indian dishes including chutneys, rice dishes, seafood curries, meat preparations, vegetable dishes, snacks, and desserts. It also includes a section on home remedies, and is introduced with a personal account of Madam Krishnan's life and culinary legacy by her daughter Padma.

Meatpaper is a print journal dedicated to 'meat culture,' and this Fall 2012 issue is a special all-fish edition covering topics such as fish labeling fraud, the history of fish sticks, the eel trade, salmon fishing, and aquaculture. The issue features illustrated articles, essays, and photography from a range of contributors including fishermen, ecologists, and food writers. It combines literary journalism with high-quality illustration and design, exploring both the culinary and cultural dimensions of fish and seafood.

Meatpaper is a San Francisco-based journal of meat culture, describing itself as 'your journal of meat culture.' Issue Eighteen from Summer 2012 is themed as a food issue, covering topics ranging from Hungarian cuisine and national dishes of the world, to the etymology of meat words like 'gravy train' and 'jerky,' to the history of bagels and lox. The issue features articles, recipes, poetry, and illustrations exploring the cultural, historical, and culinary dimensions of meat and food.

A follow-up to the cult classic 'Nose to Tail Eating' by Fergus Henderson, chef and founder of St. John Restaurant in London, this cookbook features over 100 recipes focused on offal and whole-animal cooking, including braised shoulder of lamb, pigeon pie, venison liver, and pressed pig's ear. Co-authored with head baker Justin Piers Gellatly, it also explores the world of pastry, pudding, and bread for the first time. The book is photographed by Jason Lowe in a distinctive black-and-white style featuring portraits of chefs with their dishes.

A celebrated cookbook by Fergus Henderson, chef and founder of London's St. John restaurant, advocating the philosophy of using every part of the animal in cooking. The book features recipes ranging from Roast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad to Pig's Trotter Stuffed with Potato, drawing on traditional British cooking techniques and a deep respect for whole-animal butchery. With an introduction by Anthony Bourdain, who called it a cult classic, the book won the 2000 Andre Simon Award and helped popularize the nose-to-tail eating movement.

This book is number 158 in the 'Carte d'Artisti' series and documents the Futurist culinary movement initiated by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of Futurism, who famously declared 'Down with pasta!' in 1930. It compiles theoretical manifestos, menus, recipes, poems, and documents from the Futurist kitchen movement, including materials from the Futurist restaurant Taverna Santopalato. The collection explores how Futurist chefs and artists attempted to revolutionize Italian gastronomy, treating cuisine as a spectacular laboratory for the creative fusion of Art and Life.

Kitchen Kulture explores the evolution of the kitchen from a back-of-house service area to the multifunctional social hub of the modern home. The book features stunning photography of contemporary kitchens from around the world, ranging from vast open-plan spaces in London townhouses to compact studio kitchenettes in Berlin. It compiles work from leading designers and architects, examining how kitchens reflect changing attitudes toward domesticity, food, and technology.

A monograph documenting the life and work of Japanese stonemason and sculptor Makoto, spanning from 1969 to 2019. The book chronicles his engagement with stone as an artistic material across international projects, including a notable work at Hiroshima-Nagasaki Square in Potsdam. Published bilingually in English and Japanese, it was compiled posthumously as Makoto passed away unexpectedly in June 2019.

A compilation book by Japanese design magazine AXIS featuring interviews with 115 designers who appeared on the magazine's cover over a 20-year period, from Ettore Sottsass in issue vol.70 (December 1997) to Gen Terao in issue vol.186 (April 2017). The book presents portrait photography and interviews with leading global designers including Bill Moggridge, Ross Lovegrove, James Dyson, Jacques Herzog, Michele De Lucchi, Frank Gehry, and many others. Published in October 2018, it serves as both a historical record of influential designers and a celebration of AXIS magazine's design coverage.

A showcase publication by Vitra documenting their furniture and interior design projects across various client types including offices, coworking spaces, airports, hospitality venues, and public spaces. The book features case studies of notable clients such as Deloitte, EY Malta, Tate Modern, Munich Airport, and Swiss International Airlines, among others. It highlights Vitra's role as both a furniture supplier and full-service workspace planning provider.

A client showcase brochure by Swiss furniture company Vitra, presenting real-world installations of their products across work spaces (offices and co-working spaces) and public spaces (airports, cultural institutions, public administration, and hospitality venues). The book documents projects for notable clients such as G-Star RAW, Samsung Design America, Novartis, Interpol, and Théâtre de Liège, among others. It serves as a visual portfolio demonstrating how Vitra's design furniture is used in professional and public environments worldwide.

A interior design book celebrating raw, unpolished aesthetics featuring homes that embrace brutal materials such as bare bricks, rusty metal, weathered plasterwork, and concrete. The book also profiles artisans and makers with a passion for metal, wood, and ceramics. Lifestyle journalist Iris De Feijter and design blogger Irene Schampaert guide readers through spaces across locations including Copenhagen, São Paulo, Marrakesh, Milan, and more.

A design exploration book by two IDEO designers that takes a voyeuristic look at the design journey through 12 experiments exploring the sensorial and experiential side of everyday objects. The book documents collaborations between IDEO designers and various experts including physicists, fusion chefs, and artisanal mechanics to go beyond the conceptual to the curiously concrete. Topics range from what a laptop tastes like to how knitting became cool, examining objects through themes of Aisthetika, Punk Manufacturing, and Love+Fetish.

A visually rich encyclopedic book cataloging the courtship behaviors of animals across the natural world, organized by categories such as Size/Color, Dance, Contest, Gifts, Creativity, Touch, Power, Voice, and Freedom. Published by Sagami Rubber Industries (a Japanese condom manufacturer), the project explores the diversity of animal mating rituals through stunning photography and bilingual (English/Japanese) text. The book features over 60 species including birds, insects, mammals, and marine creatures, with entries describing each animal's unique approach to attracting a mate.

REVS is an independent fashion publication positioning itself as 'the edge between fashion and a magazine.' Issue #20, themed 'The Sharp Issue — Inspired by the Edge,' features fashion editorials, interviews with creatives such as Davide Balliano, Arnold Berger, Johan Deckmann, Martin Lukáč, and Emma Larsson, alongside photographic essays including 'In the Shade' and 'The Presence.' The cover features model Sofia Fanego photographed by David Paige, and the magazine is printed on 100% recycled paper.

An official lookbook/catalogue for Yohji Yamamoto's Pour Homme Autumn Winter 2022-23 collection. Photographed by Takay with styling by Tsuyoshi Noguchi, featuring models Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masaya Kato, Yutaka Matsushige, and Yasunori Mihara. The book presents the menswear collection through dramatic black-and-white editorial photography, showcasing the brand's signature dark, avant-garde aesthetic with layered garments, deconstructed silhouettes, and ecclesiastical references.

The December 11, 2021 issue of the Financial Times' luxury lifestyle magazine 'How To Spend It,' featuring a Philanthropy Special with actress Jessie Buckley on the cover. The issue includes features on charitable giving, arts patronage, and profiles of notable philanthropists including Courtney Love, Dwyane Wade, and Vanessa Branson. Content covers fashion, art, food, travel and philanthropy with contributors discussing how celebrities and wealthy individuals give back.

A special issue of the Financial Times' luxury lifestyle magazine 'How To Spend It', dated 7 May 2022, guest edited by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive. The issue focuses on makers and creators, featuring Jony Ive in conversation with longtime collaborator Marc Newson, Japanese fashion designer Hiroki Nakamura of Visvim, and explores themes of craftsmanship, tools, and design. The cover features a striking black-and-white photograph of two hands clasped together, shot by David Sims.

The Financial Times luxury lifestyle magazine 'How To Spend It' dated 6 November 2021, featuring a cover story on the elite world of international showjumping titled 'Riders'. The issue also covers fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, singer-songwriter James Blunt, freerunner Sebastien Foucan, and American painter Milton Avery, alongside luxury travel, food, and design features.

The October 30, 2021 Travel Issue of the Financial Times luxury lifestyle magazine 'How To Spend It.' Features destination coverage including Vienna, Puerto Escondido, Baalbek, Cork, New Delhi, Swartland, Paris, Istanbul, and New South Wales. Articles include 'Mexico Untamed' on Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca, 'Another Lebanon,' 'A Slow Waltz Through Vienna,' and features on fashion, food, and design.

The third volume of Kevin Kelly's three-volume 'Vanishing Asia' series, this large-format photography book documents the traditional cultures, peoples, and landscapes of East Asia including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The book features stunning photographs of subjects such as the Great Wall of China, traditional Korean fan dancers, and indigenous peoples in ceremonial dress, capturing traditions that are disappearing in the modern world. With over 1,000 pages across the full set, it represents a monumental effort to preserve a visual record of Asian cultural heritage.

A large-format photography book documenting the cultures, traditions, and landscapes of Central Asia, including countries such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and India. Part of a three-volume set (West, Central, and East Asia), the book features thousands of photographs capturing disappearing ways of life across the region. Photographs, text, and design are all by Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine, and the book spans 1,082 pages across the full set.

A large-format photographic documentation of West Asia by Kevin Kelly, part of a three-volume set titled 'Vanishing Asia' covering West, Central, and East Asia. The book features photography of people, markets, architecture, and daily life across countries including Afghanistan, India, and the broader West Asian region. Its stated aim appears to be preserving visual records of traditional and disappearing cultures and ways of life across Asia.

A publication by the Itami Jun Museum featuring the architectural work of Itami Jun (Yu Dong-ryong), a Korean-Japanese architect known for his buildings on Jeju Island. The book explores his architecture through photography, with themes of natural elements — water (水), wind (風), stone (石), earth (地), and sky (空) — central to his design philosophy. It includes photographs of his iconic museum buildings and written reflections on his approach to integrating architecture with the natural landscape.

A deluxe hardcover edition of Hugo Pratt's classic graphic novel 'Una Ballata del Mare Salato' (A Ballad of the Salt Sea), the first adventure of the iconic sailor Corto Maltese, originally published in 1967. This 50th anniversary edition (in Italian) features the iconic black-and-white comic strips alongside full-color watercolor illustrations, published by Rizzoli Lizard (Mondadori). The story follows Corto Maltese and a cast of characters including Pandora, Cain, and Rasputin, as pirates and warriors cross paths across the ocean.

Holiday Magazine's Spring/Summer 2024 issue No. 393 is devoted entirely to Kathmandu, Nepal. The magazine features editorial photography of the city's temples, squares, and youth culture, blending travel journalism with fashion photography shot on location. The issue includes contributions from multiple writers and photographers exploring the Nepalese capital through both cultural and aesthetic lenses.

Holiday is an international travel and style review magazine, with issue No. 392 being an Autumn/Winter 2023-24 edition devoted entirely to Paris. The issue features fashion editorials shot by photographers including Robin Galiegue, Alessandro Furchino Capria, and Olivier Kervern, with styling by contributors including Virginie Benarroch and Berenger Pelc. Contributors include fashion houses such as Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Chanel, alongside cultural profiles of figures like Christophe Lemaire, Eva Ionesco, and Nicolas Garako.

Holiday Magazine's Spring/Summer 2023 issue No. 391 is entirely devoted to Istanbul, functioning as an international travel and style review. The issue features editorial photography, fashion shoots styled in Istanbul locations, literary essays, and cultural explorations of the city. Contributors include notable photographers and writers examining Istanbul's history, architecture, neighborhoods, and contemporary culture.

Holiday Magazine is an international travel and style review. Issue No. 382 is an Autumn/Winter 2018-19 edition entirely devoted to Bhutan, featuring texts by writers including Clément Bénech, Jurmi Chhowing, Oscar Coop-Phane, and Nicolas Zeisler, with photography by Jamie Hawkesworth, Hill & Aubrey, Mario Sorrenti, Harris Mizrahi, Robi Rodriguez, and Karim Sadli. The issue combines travel journalism, fashion editorials shot on location in Bhutan, and cultural essays exploring the Himalayan kingdom.

Holiday is an international travel and style review magazine, with this Spring/Summer 2015 issue entirely devoted to Japan. The issue features articles on Japanese traditions, culture, fashion, and personalities including pieces on Mishima, Mister Kenzo, Serge Lutens and Kabuki, and a Japanese peregrination by Éric Reinhardt. It includes photography by notable contributors such as Jean-Paul Goude, Inez and Vinoodh, and Josh Olins.

A Japanese edition of the French publication 'Mars: Une exploration photographique' originally published by Editions Xavier Barral, Paris 2013. The book presents stunning high-resolution black-and-white images of the Martian surface captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and its HiRISE camera. It explores the geology, landscape, and origins of life on Mars through extraordinary aerial photography of dunes, craters, canyons, and polar regions.

Time Out Tokyo issue No. 23 (August-September 2019) featuring a 'Tokyo 101' guide — a curated list of 101 must-do experiences in Tokyo. The magazine covers topics including traditional Japanese breakfast, bar-hopping in Golden Gai, rooftop sky gardens, local shopping for souvenirs, nightlife, art and culture, and day trips further afield from central Tokyo. It is a free bilingual city guide distributed in Tokyo.

The second issue of Time Out Tokyo magazine, published April-June 2014, themed around food culture in Tokyo with cover star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. The issue features sections on Japanese Food 101, the evolution of sushi, best bars, hanami (cherry blossom) hunting, and exclusive sumo wrestler portraits. It serves as both a food guide and city lifestyle magazine for Tokyo.

Time Out Tokyo is a free city guide magazine covering the October–December 2014 period (No. 4). This issue features a Tokyo Style Guide with a pick of 100 best shops, as well as sections on autumn activities, hiking, onsen, food festivals, art collecting, and cultural etiquette. The cover features an anime-style illustration of a girl skating through Tokyo streets.

The inaugural launch issue of Time Out Tokyo magazine, covering the period November 2013 to January 2014. The issue proclaims Tokyo as 'the greatest city on Earth' and includes guides to dining, nightlife, art, culture, shopping, LGBT venues, travel, and city updates. It also features content about the upcoming 2020 Olympics and highlights neighborhoods like Marunouchi in association with Mitsubishi Estate.

A bilingual (Japanese/English) special issue of Pen+ magazine serving as a comprehensive guide to Tokyo for 2012. The guide covers neighborhoods like East Tokyo, specialty shops, dining and drinking spots, Tokyo fashion designers, and includes a list of 152 must-visit places in the city. It features sections on traditional crafts, modern dining styles, and cultural activities across various Tokyo districts.

A bilingual (Japanese/English) special issue of Pen+ magazine serving as a comprehensive guide to Tokyo. The guide covers topics including architecture, traditional culture, food (sushi, ramen, izakaya, etc.), specialty shops, live entertainment, and maps of key Tokyo districts. Published in October 2010 for the 2011 edition, it features sections on New Standards, Tradition & Classic Style, Culture & Creative Appeal, Taste of Tokyo, Specialty Shops & Manias, and Live Entertainment & Fun.

A special extra issue of Casa BRUTUS magazine dedicated to the world's best museums, featuring 66 domestic (Japan) and 73 international museums. The guide covers museum architecture masters such as Frank Gehry, Peter Zumthor, Yoshio Taniguchi, and SANAA, alongside features on major institutions including the Fondazione Prada Milano, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and numerous Japanese museums. Content is organized into sections covering special reports, museum maestros, world museums, and Japanese museums.

This is the November 2020 issue (Vol.247) of Casa BRUTUS, a Japanese life design magazine. The issue focuses on 'The Best Museums 2020,' featuring a curated list of 100 best art museums in Japan (日本のBEST美術館100), covering museums in regions such as Aomori, Kanazawa, and beyond. The coverage includes museum architecture, notable collections, museum cafes, and conversations with artists and architects.

NJP (Néojaponisme Print) is the first print issue of the long-running Japan culture website Néojaponisme, focused on Shōwa-era Tokyo (1926–1989). The issue covers topics ranging from food, drink, and kissa (coffee shop) culture to politics, student radicals, dance halls, lettering, and literature from that era. It features bold constructivist-inspired graphic design by Ian Lynam and illustrations, alongside essays, translations, and cultural guides.

A comprehensive architectural guide to Tokyo covering over 200 of the city's most interesting buildings from the post-1945 era. The guide is organized by district (ku) and features works by prominent architects including Tadao Ando, Kenzo Tange, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, and many others. Includes photographs, plans, maps, and indices to help readers locate buildings throughout one of the world's largest and most complex cities.

A beautifully illustrated guide to art museums across Japan, covering both must-see institutions and lesser-known treasure houses scattered throughout the Japanese archipelago. Each entry details the story behind the museum's creation, its collection, rotating works, and the building itself, along with pointers to nearby galleries and special places to visit. The book spans traditional arts, contemporary galleries, artists' houses, and idiosyncratic collections, serving as a gateway to discovering Japan's cultural heritage.

A personal guide to the most distinctive and inspiring museums in Japan, covering institutions from Tokyo, Kyoto, and beyond. The book provides in-depth information about each venue including the story behind their creation, spanning traditional arts, contemporary museums, artist houses, and idiosyncratic galleries. Organized by region, it includes thematic indexes covering topics such as mingei, tea ceremony, photography, and Western art.

A comprehensive guide to contemporary architecture in Tokyo featuring 83 buildings across seven city districts including Ginza, Shibuya, Roppongi, Shinjuku, and more. The book covers works by both celebrated Japanese architects such as Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, and Kenzo Tange, as well as international firms like Herzog & de Meuron and FOA, presented through stunning black-and-white photography. Each building is introduced not just from an architectural perspective but also within its social, cultural, and political context, with detailed maps and access information.

Made in Tokyo is an architectural guidebook that documents and celebrates Tokyo's anonymous, hybrid, and utilitarian buildings — structures that blend multiple functions in unexpected ways, such as highways over apartment buildings or golf ranges atop parking garages. The book catalogs 72 such 'da-me' (no-good) buildings through photographs, isometric diagrams, and bilingual Japanese/English descriptions, presenting them as a unique form of urban architecture born from Tokyo's dense, pragmatic city conditions. Originally published in 2001 and reaching its 11th printing by 2012, it became an influential text in contemporary architectural discourse.

The third installment in the Monocle Travel Guide Series, this compact hardcover guide covers Tokyo across categories including hotels, food and drink, retail, culture, design and architecture, sport and fitness, and neighborhood walks. It highlights the city's best restaurants, shops, galleries, and buildings, with a particular focus on Tokyo's blend of cutting-edge modernity and deep-rooted tradition. Written and photographed by Monocle's global network of editors and contributors, it serves as both a practical travel companion and a curated insider's perspective on one of the world's most dynamic cities.

A comprehensive guide to living in and adapting to Tokyo, covering Japanese customs, traditions, social and business etiquette. The book addresses practical aspects of settling in the city including healthcare, accommodation, schools, and transportation, while also exploring Tokyo's cultural landscape and neighborhoods. Part of the internationally successful CultureShock! series with over 4 million copies sold.

A comprehensive guide to Japanese customs, etiquette, and culture aimed at expatriates and long-term visitors to Japan. The book covers practical topics including accommodation, healthcare, food, business etiquette, communication, and daily life in Japan. Written by someone with first-hand experience living in Japan, it aims to help readers navigate cultural differences and integrate smoothly into Japanese society.

Part of the Tokyo Artrip guidebook series, this bilingual (Japanese/English) guide introduces antique shops and flea markets in Tokyo from the perspectives of four antiques experts and advisers. The book covers various categories of Japanese antiques including Buddhist statues (butsuzo) and traditional chests (tansu), and features 22 recommended items to look for when visiting antique shops and markets. It serves as a practical walking guide for exploring Tokyo's antique scene through the lens of Japanese culture, art, and design.

A Tokyo guidebook created by Hotel CLASKA, featuring recommendations from savvy local Tokyoites for both tourists and residents. The book presents insider tips on bookshops, restaurants, and hidden spots across the city, with contributions from numerous Tokyo-based creatives. First published in 2009, this is the second edition from 2010, bilingual in Japanese and English.

A compact travel guide to Tokyo published as part of the Wallpaper* City Guide series, covering landmarks, hotels, restaurants, bars, shopping, sports, spas, and architecture. The guide is colour-coded by neighbourhood and includes sections on areas such as Asakusa, Shibuya, Ginza, Harajuku/Aoyama, and Shinjuku. It is aimed at design-conscious travellers seeking insider recommendations for Tokyo's best cultural and lifestyle destinations.

A compact pocket-sized luxury city guide to Tokyo covering shopping, dining, and lifestyle. The guide focuses on curated recommendations for the best fashion, homeware, design, dining, and experiences in Tokyo, compiled by a resident editor and local city experts. This is described as the 'Tenth Fabulous Edition' and retails at US $9.99 / UK £4.99.

A bilingual (English and Korean) map guide featuring over 50 striking examples of concrete architecture across Seoul and its surroundings. The two-sided format includes a detailed city map, original photography, building details, and an introduction by Professor Hyon-Sob Kim. It traces Seoul's concrete architectural history from post-Korean War reconstruction through contemporary Brutalist and experimental structures.

This is the exhibition catalogue published by the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul for their special exhibition on Joseon Dynasty white porcelain, opened February 28, 2023. The book covers the full spectrum of Joseon white porcelain organized into four parts: masterpieces designated as National Treasures, blue-and-white porcelain, iron-brown and copper-red underglaze works, and monochrome white porcelain. It presents the ceramics as physical embodiments of the Confucian ideal of the 'gunja' (君子), the virtuous gentleman, with works drawn from Korean and Japanese museum collections including the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.

This is the official exhibition catalogue for a major retrospective of Korean-Japanese artist Lee Ufan, held at the National Art Center, Tokyo (August–November 2022) and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (December 2022–February 2023). The catalogue documents over six decades of Lee Ufan's practice spanning painting, sculpture, and printmaking, with particular focus on his signature 'Dialogue' series featuring restrained gestural brushstrokes in muted tones. Published bilingually in Japanese and English, it includes messages from museum directors and comprehensive documentation of the artist's work.

A comprehensive catalogue raisonné of prints by the renowned Korean-Japanese artist Lee Ufan, covering his complete printmaking output from 1970 to 2019. The book includes essays by the artist on printmaking philosophy, including 'About Printmaking' and 'Identity and Difference – Roots of Printmaking.' Published as a first edition in November 2019, it also contains biographical information, exhibition history, and public collections documentation.

A curated travel guide to Japan covering art, architecture, craft, nature, hotels, restaurants, and shops across regions from Hokkaido to Kyushu. The book also features a dedicated section on Japanese objects including everyday items like brushes, cups, teapots, and sneakers. Art direction and graphic design by Studio Newwork, with photography by various contributors.

A photography book by Aglaia Konrad collecting images taken between 2010 and 2017 focusing on 'sculptural architecture' and the spatial display of sculpture. Published as ROMA #303 to accompany Konrad's exhibition FRAUENZIMMERSTUNDE at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal (November 2017 – January 2018). The book presents black-and-white photographs of sculptures from various cultures and periods, displayed in museum settings, with subtle color tinting in the printing.

A Pattern Language is a seminal work in architecture and urban design presenting 253 patterns — solutions to recurring design problems — ranging from regional planning down to construction details. The book proposes that people should design their own houses, streets, and communities using an archetypal 'language' of design patterns. It is Volume 2 of the Center for Environmental Structure Series and remains one of the most influential books on architectural design of the 20th century.

A field guide for young people coming of age amid overlapping global crises including climate collapse, economic upheaval, and digital overwhelm. Part poetic essay and part emotional toolkit, it helps readers navigate grief, rage, and collective trauma without offering easy answers. The book blends trauma-informed thinking, systems analysis, and inner-world literacy, and is designed for classroom use, youth circles, counselors, and organizers.

A comprehensive encyclopedia of dried flowers featuring beautiful photographic documentation of over 100 plant varieties shown in their dried state. The book includes sections on techniques for making dried flowers, tips and useful tools, as well as creative ways to enjoy them including arrangements, wreaths, bouquets, pressed flowers, garlands, and gift ideas. Originally published in 2013, this is the 4th printing from 2017, authored by Yuki Takahashi, owner of the flower shop 'DÉCORATION DE FLEURS atelier cabane' in Meguro, Tokyo.

A curated coffee table book showcasing 80 handpicked luxury hotel properties across 29 countries, featuring cutting-edge architecture, sophisticated interiors, and impeccable hospitality. The book journeys through remarkable modern hotels and luxury resorts around the world, from tranquil island retreats to dynamic urban escapes. Published in 2024 and produced in Australia, it includes properties such as Patina Maldives, BELLUSTAR TOKYO, Park Hyatt Saigon, Raffles Singapore, and many others.

Too Much is an independent magazine subtitled 'Magazine of Romantic Geography,' with Issue 6 published in Summer 2015 themed around 'A Fake Mountain.' The issue explores the collapsing boundary between the manmade and the natural, featuring articles on topics such as Shanghai's 16-story mountain, a Shinto forest in the city, Indonesian caves, and the Kofun Stadium. It combines art, photography, architecture, and cultural essays from an international roster of contributors, with a particular focus on Japan and Asia.

An exhibition catalogue published by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London for a show held 28 April–29 July 2017, featuring works by nine key Minimalist artists: Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, and Richard Tuttle. The works are drawn from the collection of pioneer collector Egidio Marzona, who began collecting in the late 1960s and built one of the most important collections of arte povera, conceptual, minimal and land art. The catalogue includes an essay by Alistair Rider titled 'Minimalism's Ascetic Tenor' and a full catalogue of the works with colour plates.

A luxury hardcover coffee table book showcasing the use of natural stone in high-end private residences, featuring projects by architects, interior designers, and natural stone artisans. The book takes its title from the Latin expression meaning 'limit not to be exceeded,' reflecting its pursuit of perfection in residential design. Published in 2023 by Beta-Plus (Brussels), it covers 23 chapters spanning topics from Belgian bluestone and Italian limestone to minimalist interiors and coastal apartments.

This beautifully photographed volume showcases the Thai houses of renowned traditionalist architect Ong-ard Satrabhandhu, whose work blends northern Thai (Lanna) influences with classical Chinese architecture and Western vernacular traditions. The book features master photography by François Halard, with a foreword by architect and urban theorist Léon Krier and texts by Errol Barron. Projects documented include Rachamankha and Tamarind Village in Chiang Mai, as well as several private residences in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, spanning from 1992 to 2010.

A curated visual exploration of minimalist architecture from around the world, showcasing projects across various styles, sizes, materials, and details. The book examines built environments through the lens of minimalism, exploring how the philosophy of 'form follows function' manifests in contemporary architectural design. It aims to illustrate that minimal architecture goes beyond aesthetics, connecting inhabitants to their inner selves and deepest values.

Plain Space is a monograph on the work of minimalist architect John Pawson, written by Alison Morris who spent over a decade embedded in the Pawson office. The book examines the office's working methods, design process, and architect-client relationships through thematic essays and narrative project descriptions, covering projects ranging from private residences and sacred spaces to yachts and spatial interventions. Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, it documents key works including the Monastery of Nový Dvůr, Sackler Crossing at Kew Gardens, and various residential projects across Europe and New York.

A Visual Inventory is a curated collection of 272 personally annotated photographs taken by renowned minimalist architect John Pawson, drawn from his archive of over a quarter million digital images. The photographs, arranged as pairs, document patterns, textures, forms, materials, and spatial arrangements encountered during his travels and work around the world. None of the images have been cropped or altered, offering readers an intimate look into Pawson's visual curiosity and design sensibility.

This is a comprehensive catalogue published in 2009 documenting approximately 270 select pieces of Korean ceramics (Joseon dynasty pottery) held in the collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingei-kan), founded by Yanagi Soetsu. The collection of about 600 pieces was selected through Yanagi's discerning aesthetic eye, comprising primarily ceramics from the late 17th to late 19th century Joseon period, including white porcelain, blue-and-white ware, and Goryeo celadon. The book is bilingual in Japanese and Korean and was published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Yanagi Soetsu's death in 2011.

This catalog documents highlights of Korean cultural heritage from the Joseon Dynasty period held at the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (日本民藝館). The book covers glazed ceramics, Buddhist sculptures, paintings, maps, and crafts, featuring high-quality photography of each artifact with scholarly descriptions and essays. Published in 2015 by the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, it serves as an important reference for Korean traditional crafts and art held in Japanese collections.

This is an exhibition handbook exploring Korean abstract painting (Dansaekhwa), focusing on the movement that developed in the 1970s characterized by minimalist beauty and subtle nuance. The publication examines works by 19 artists across three generations who developed Korea's unique abstract expression while receiving influences from Western contemporary art movements such as Art Informel. The exhibition aimed to highlight the vibrant artistic exchange between Korea and Japan from the 1970s through the 1990s. Rhythm in Monochrome | Korean Abstract Painting, October 14, 2017 [Saturday] ─ December 24 [Sunday], Tokyo Opera City Gallery.

This is Issue 05 of the Monocle Companion series, a Venice Architecture Biennale Special published in 2025. It presents fifty essays, opinions, recommendations, and ideas on architecture, design, and building better, featuring insights from writers, designers, and thinkers on topics ranging from building with lava to space exploration. The book covers themes including urban design, creativity, construction, sustainability, and the built environment.

A bilingual (English/Japanese) art publication curated by Dutch sculptor Henk Visch, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo (May 17 – June 29, 2024). The book contains six poems by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha selected from 'Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear: Poems from Gaza,' an essay on poetry of resistance, and the famous poem 'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet and academic killed in Gaza in 2023. The cover features a photograph of Henk Visch's bronze sculpture 'Que suis-je? (Montaigne)' (2023).

A 2023 artist book by Jim Buell exploring the intersection of sound and image through Slow-Scan Television (SSTV) technology, the same method used to transmit the first Apollo 11 moon landing images. The book reproduces photographic images of scenes encoded and decoded via SSTV audio signals, intentionally welcoming visual noise and distortion rather than seeking clarity. It is typeset in Aeonik, printed on white 100KG March Colors paper with a silver 110KG New Color R paper cover.

A comprehensive survey of Gustav Klimt's works on paper, focusing on his drawings and watercolours rather than his more famous paintings. The book brings together hundreds of Klimt's works exploring his taboo-breaking themes including the female nude, erotica, and homoeroticism, as well as allegorical and historical subjects. It also includes preparatory sketches and studies that served as foundations for his celebrated paintings, with 309 illustrations of which 282 are in colour.

A bilingual (English/Japanese) catalog published in 2024 by London Gallery featuring esoteric Buddhist ritual implements, including bronze water vessels from the Heian and Kamakura periods. The book explores the sacred significance of these artifacts within Shingon and Tendai Buddhist practice, examining how ritual implements serve both functional and symbolic roles as representations of the buddhas themselves. The text includes an essay 'On the Subject of Esoteric Ritual Implements' by Sekine Shun'ichi, discussing the aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of these objects.

This is the exhibition catalogue for the comprehensive retrospective of Louise Bourgeois held at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (September 25, 2024 – January 19, 2025), the first major survey of her work in Japan in twenty-seven years. Featuring 106 works including 51 sculptures and 34 paintings and drawings, the exhibition is organized around three chapters exploring themes of motherhood, emotional conflict, and psychological repair. The catalogue includes essays, artwork documentation, and bilingual (Japanese/English) texts exploring Bourgeois's psychoanalytically informed artistic practice spanning over seventy years.

Design Anthology is a biannual design magazine published in its Asia Pacific Edition, covering interiors, art, architecture, travel, and style. Issue 36 features content on contemporary design across the Asia Pacific region, including a feature on a modernist tropical home in Bali. The magazine is distributed across Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and internationally.

Design Anthology is a quarterly Asia-based magazine covering interiors, art, architecture, travel, and style. Issue 32 features a striking cover image of a pool courtyard with an oval skylight opening and lush greenery. Published by Fifth Black Media Limited and distributed across Asia, Europe, and beyond, it documents creative culture across the region.

A research-based publication documenting the history of plants in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, exploring how living plants were integrated into the museum's galleries alongside artworks. The book investigates the curatorial philosophy behind placing plants in art spaces, tracing this practice from museum director Willem Sandberg's era onward, with archival black-and-white photographs showing plants displayed alongside works by artists such as Mondrian and Frank Stella. Published as Roma Publication 362 in 2019, with a first edition of 800 copies.

Arranging Things is a visually driven interior design and styling book by Colin King, published by Rizzoli in 2023. The book explores the art of curating and composing objects within living spaces, organized into eight chapters covering themes such as Parameters, Objects in Dialogue, The Art of Emptiness, Natural Poise, From the Shadows, Vivid Details, Tactile Expressions, and Signs of Life. With a foreword by Robin Standefer, it features photography by numerous contributors and presents a refined, minimalist aesthetic sensibility.

This comprehensive publication documents the 35 innovative box catalogues created by the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach under director Johannes Cladders between 1967 and 1978. Each box catalogue accompanied exhibitions by major artists including Joseph Beuys, Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, Lawrence Weiner, and many others. The book grew out of the exhibition and research project 'Von Da An. Räume, Werke, Vergegenwärtigungen des Antimuseums 1967–1978' held at Museum Abteiberg in 2017–2018.

This volume presents fifteen bespoke interiors designed by the Axel Vervoordt Company, showcasing the art of harmonious living through the use of natural light as an essential design element. The featured properties span locations from New York to London, Munich, Italy, Provence, and Portugal, blending natural materials—water, metal, wood—with a modern aesthetic, fine art, and antiques. Photography by Laziz Hamani captures the unique design details and timeless interiors that define the Vervoordt style.

This is the official exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang held at The National Art Center, Tokyo, from June 29 to August 21, 2023. The book documents the artist's career from his early gunpowder works, including the landmark 'Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects' (1991), through his subsequent explosion events and installations. It is a bilingual (Japanese/English) publication featuring plates, essays, artist biography, and an interview, co-organized with SAINT LAURENT.

This book documents Cai Guo-Qiang's pyrotechnic artwork 'When the Sky Blooms with Sakura', a large-scale fireworks event staged in Iwaki, Japan on June 26, 2023, in which pink smoke and explosive trails recreated the ephemeral beauty of cherry blossoms in the sky. The project was commissioned by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent as part of the fashion house's arts patronage program. Published as a limited edition of 500 copies, the book captures the fleeting spectacle through stunning photography of pink pyrotechnic clouds against a blue sky.

A detailed trekking and bikepacking route map of the Afghan Pamir region, part of a multi-year mapping project by Studio D Radiodurans. Ground data was collected during expedition seasons from late June through September by expedition cartographers and team members. The map uses Universal Transverse Mercator UTM zone 43N projection and incorporates data from digital elevation models, OpenStreetMap, and the GLIMS Glacier Database.

A comprehensive monograph on Japanese graphic designer Kaoru Kasai, born in 1968, showcasing his extensive body of work across graphics and advertising. The book is organized into two main sections covering graphics (including CI, signs, museum and gallery work, theatre, cinema, book design, and stationery) and advertising (featuring campaigns for major clients such as Suntory Oolong Tea, United Arrows, Seibu Department Store, Sony, and Suntory). The cover art is by Gianluigi Toccafondo from United Arrows 'lungo 2005', and the book was first published in 2010 with a third printing in 2021.

A facsimile collection of all fourteen issues of 'Newspaper,' a wordless, picture-only periodical originally published in New York City between 1968 and 1971. Edited by Steve Lawrence with Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick, it featured the work of over forty artists including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, and many others, blending high and low culture with a focus on contemporary American society and an emerging queer artistic community. This 2023 edition, compiled and edited by Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez, brings together all issues for the first time in book form.

This is an exhibition catalogue published by White Cube to accompany the Georg Baselitz exhibition 'Sofabilder/Sofa Pictures' held at White Cube Hong Kong from 24 May to 3 September 2022. The book documents a series of large-scale oil paintings and ink drawings on paper created in 2021, featuring figurative works with Baselitz's characteristic expressive gestural style. The catalogue includes an essay by Lynette Roth, curator at the Harvard Art Museums, and reproduces works with titles such as 'Die Frau mit der Kongomaske,' 'Im Bett über dem Sofa,' and 'Schwarzweiß im Bett.'

A Magazine Curated By is a renowned fashion publication where each issue is entirely conceived and curated by a different fashion designer or creative figure. Issue N°26 is curated by Vietnamese-American fashion designer Peter Do, featuring contributions from photographers, writers, and creatives with a strong Vietnamese cultural presence including Ocean Vuong, Trần Anh Hùng, and others. The cover features a close-up of dark, layered fabric forming an abstract 'A' shape, photographed by Sergiy Barchuk.

Issue #25 of 'A Magazine Curated By,' a prestigious fashion publication where each edition is guest-curated by a notable designer or brand. This edition is curated by Chitose Abe of the Japanese fashion brand Sacai, featuring contributions from artists, photographers, architects, musicians, and creatives including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hank Willis Thomas, Lawrence Weiner, Sou Fujimoto, and many others. The magazine blends fashion, art, food, architecture, and culture through the distinctive lens of Sacai's aesthetic universe.

Issue No. 24 of 'A Magazine Curated By', a renowned fashion publication where each issue is guest-curated by a different fashion designer. This edition is curated by Erdem Moralioglu of the fashion house Erdem, published in 2022. The issue explores themes of queer history, costume, identity and artistic references, featuring contributions from Glenn Close, Cindy Sherman, Michael Stipe, Neil Tennant, Sally Potter, and many others, with cover photography by Ethan James Green.

Issue #21 of 'A Magazine Curated By,' a prestigious art and fashion publication, curated by Lucie and Luke Meier, the creative directors of Jil Sander. The issue explores themes of nature, art, and fashion through photography, essays, and visual plates featuring artists, photographers, and designers including Brice Marden, Luc Tuymans, Joseph Beuys, and many others. The cover is made from handmade washi paper with wildflower inclusions by Kazuyuki Tomi from the Noto Peninsula, Japan, 2020.

A Magazine Curated By is a fashion publication where each issue is guest-curated by a prominent fashion designer; this edition (#15, 2016) is curated by American designer Thom Browne. The issue explores themes of death, mourning, and memory through fashion, art, and culture, featuring contributions from notable figures including Rick Owens, Martha Stewart, Baz Luhrmann, Daniel Arsham, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Do Ho Suh among others. The minimalist white cover features a large geometric 'A' rendered in thin black lines, reflecting Thom Browne's restrained aesthetic sensibility.

This is the first issue of 'A Magazine Curated By', a limited-edition reprint (2021) of the original 2004 publication, guest curated by Maison Martin Margiela. The magazine features contributions from numerous photographers, artists, and designers associated with or inspired by Margiela's world, with recurring 'WHITE' sections punctuating the content. The cover features paint color swatches arranged in the shape of an 'A', reflecting Margiela's signature minimalist and conceptual aesthetic.

A first edition artist book by Swiss painter Miriam Cahn, published by Nieves in 2025, courtesy of Meyer Riegger gallery, with photography by Heinz Pelz and lithography by Marjeta Morinc. The book features Cahn's characteristic raw, expressive drawings in pencil and red crayon, depicting figures in distressing and violent scenarios that address themes of power, vulnerability, and white supremacy. The back cover includes handwritten notes by the artist listing themes such as 'gepäck/gefühl' (baggage/feeling), 'schlafen' (sleeping), 'white supremacy porn', 'herumliegen' (lying around), and 'meine hände' (my hands).

An artist book by Swiss painter Miriam Cahn, published by Nieves in 2025 as a first edition. The book reproduces drawings and works on paper featuring figurative imagery rendered in charcoal and colored pencil, exploring themes of the body, identity, and vulnerability. The title 'KÖNNTEICHSEIN' is German for 'could be me,' reflecting Cahn's empathetic and politically engaged artistic practice.

A photography book documenting the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with photographs by Japanese photographer Yoshihiko Ueda. The book covers three iconic Mies van der Rohe buildings: Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1951), Barcelona Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain (1929), and Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic (1930). Published in Japan with bilingual content, the book was priced at ¥10,000 and carries ISBN 978-4-306-09419-2.

A photography book by Daisuke Hirabayashi documenting the Koechlin House, an architecturally significant modernist residence. The book features Hirabayashi's images accompanied by texts by Tibor Bielicky, Ellena Ehrl, and Nicolas Jérôme Hünerwadel. Published in 2023 as a first edition by MACK, the cover image suggests an atmospheric, plant-filled interior space with glass walls characteristic of mid-century modern architecture.

A interior design monograph showcasing the work of Atelier AM, the Los Angeles-based design studio founded by Alexandra and Michael Misczynski. The book features photography by renowned photographer François Halard and includes a foreword by Axel Vervoordt and text by Mayer Rus. It presents the studio's signature aesthetic of refined, layered interiors that blend antique and contemporary elements with an emphasis on texture, materiality, and understated luxury.

Union Magazine Issue No. 18 is a Japanese fashion and photography publication published in 2023, featuring editorial photography by an international roster of photographers including Mark Steinmetz, Jack Davison, Reiko Toyama, Sarah van Rij, Seishi Shirakawa, and others. The issue contains 11 editorial features spanning pages 6 through 183, each titled with poetic names such as 'Don't Forget Your Umbrella on a Sunny Day' and 'If it's Rainy, You Won't See Me'. Published in Tokyo and distributed internationally through Antenne Books, it presents a refined, artistic approach to fashion imagery with a notably understated aesthetic.

Union Magazine Issue No. 17 is a high-end fashion photography publication based in Tokyo, Japan, featuring editorial work by a roster of international photographers including Charlotte Lapalus, Clara Balzary, Ben Weller, Reiko Toyama, Julia Hetta, Quentin de Briey, and others. The issue contains twelve photographic editorial spreads with titles such as 'Niolon Forever,' 'Hourglass,' 'Tatami Room,' 'Sandy,' and 'Manchester,' among others. Published in 2022 and printed in Japan, the magazine is distributed internationally through Antenne Books Limited.

UNION is a Tokyo-based photography and fashion magazine, Issue No. 16 featuring work by ten contributing photographers including Charlotte Lapalus, Vivian Maier, Julia Hetta, and others. The issue contains photo essays with titles such as 'Vacances', 'Those Were The Days', 'Portraits', 'Berlin, Paris And...', 'Radio Tower', 'In Time', 'Fårö', 'Cobalt Hour', 'Self-Portraits', and 'Days'. Printed in Japan in 2021, it is distributed internationally by Antenne Books Limited and presented in a hardcover linen-bound format.

This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty,' held at the Mori Art Museum (53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower) from April 25 to July 5, 2015, co-organized with Centre Pompidou-Metz and Fondation d'entreprise Hermès. The exhibition features approximately 130 works spanning art both old and new from East and West, organized into nine sections including Metaphysical Landscapes, Cosmos and Moon, Mechanical Forms, and Enigma. The catalogue explores the universal aesthetic of simple forms found across nature, primitive art, folk art, traditional crafts, and modern art from around the world.

Rakesprogress is a quarterly independent magazine subtitled 'The Art of Gardens, Plants and Flowers,' covering horticulture, botany, and garden culture from an artistic and literary perspective. Issue #9 (Volume 9) features articles on topics ranging from florist farmers, garden design, and botanical art to nature writing and plant-related cultural stories. The cover features a striking still-life photograph of spiky cucumbers and dark seed pods shot at Bronze Age Studio, South Africa.

Toxic Garden is an art book produced by the collective AN+ in collaboration with the Herbarium of The National Natural History Collections at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The book features photography by Aviad Bar Ness, a poem by Charles Fox, and a postcard by Cecilia Azcarate, exploring the aesthetic and conceptual world of toxic or poisonous plants through herbarium specimens. It is a limited first edition of 400 copies, printed in France.

A catalog/lookbook for Qusamura (叢), a Japanese plant and botanical art studio with locations in Hiroshima and Tokyo. The publication documents their plant installations, interior botanical art works, and retail spaces, including projects at KIRO Hiroshima THE SHARE HOTELS and the opening of Qusamura Tokyo in Daikanyama in 2019. The studio is known for treating plants as art objects, combining succulents, cacti, and tropical plants in artistic arrangements displayed as if in a plant museum.

This is the exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Olafur Eliasson's 'Riverbed' exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, running from 20 August 2014 to 4 January 2015. The book documents Eliasson's large-scale immersive installation that recreated a rocky riverbed landscape inside the museum's gallery spaces. The cover features abstract calligraphic brushwork on a cream background, with curators including Poul Erik Tejner, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Marie Laurberg, and Caroline Eggel.

A photography book by Japanese photographer Masato Tadatomo, featuring intimate black-and-white imagery including close-up studies of flowers such as roses. The minimalist kraft paper cover and fine art printing style suggest a contemplative, atmospheric work exploring themes of light, stillness, and organic form. The title evokes a warm, sunlit interior space and suggests a meditative quality throughout the work.

Sun Seekers: The Cure of California by Lyra Kilston explores the history of California as a destination for health, wellness, and utopian living, examining how the state's climate and landscape shaped its architecture and culture. The book investigates the migration of people to California seeking physical and spiritual renewal, and how this influenced the design of spaces and structures. Published in 2019 by Atelier Editions in a limited edition of 3000 copies, it blends architectural history with cultural narrative.