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Series:
Old Cuba
Hardcover
Alicia E. Garcia
9780847858477
$75.00
ARCHITECTURE
Feb 28, 2017
Old Cuba presents an insider’s view of the splendid colonial-era sites of the storied island nation, from the grand apartments and magnificent cathedral of Old Havana to the plantation homes of Pinar del Río. Cuba dominates the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, fixed between the great continents to the north and to the south, and has long served as a bridge between the Old World and the New. First visited by Christopher Columbus in 1492, its history of interaction with the Old World of Europe is among the longest in the Americas, and its archit...
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Joseph Dirand
Interior
Hardcover
Joseph Dirand
9780847849376
$90.00
HOUSE & HOME
Sep 19, 2017
The first monograph on one of today’s most celebrated architects, renowned for designing interiors that combine minimalism with classic French style. When describing a space that intertwines both minimalism and elegance, the name Joseph Dirand immediately comes to mind. The son of Jacques Dirand, one of the most renowned interior photographers of his time, Joseph Dirand is now one of the most sought-after architects. By incorporating a quintessentially French style into otherwise minimalist interiors, Dirand creates instantly recognizable space...
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Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c.
The 1874 Masterpiece of Colorful Typography
Hardcover
Esther K. Smith
9780847858682
$60.00
DESIGN
May 30, 2017
Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c. is a vintage volume with an established cultlike status within the bibliophile, typographic, and design worlds. Originally published as a catalogue for William H. Page’s Connecticut wood type foundry— considered one of the best in the world—this 1874 type specimen book features elaborate display typefaces meant to announce tent revivals and circuses. In addition to the beautifully intricate typefaces and playful designs, the original author designed the pages in such a random sequence that the text...
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100 Buildings
Paperback
Thom Mayne
9780847859504
$34.00
ARCHITECTURE
Oct 24, 2017
An accessible primer to the most important architectural touchstones of our time by today’s leading architects and teachers of architecture. For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators—from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli—were asked to list the top 100 twentieth-century architectural projects they would teach to students. The contributors were encouraged to select built projects where formal, spatial, technological, and organizational concepts responded to dynamic histor...
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The Art of Dressing
Ageless, Timeless, Original Style
Hardcover
Tziporah Salamon
9780847858521
$60.00
SELF-HELP
Mar 28, 2017
Style icon Tziporah Salamon profiles the chicest and most celebrated older women of today, showcasing their wardrobes and revealing the contents of their closets, while imparting practical tips on how to put together beautiful outfits. In The Art of Dressing, Tziporah Salamon features women known for their personal style and women whom she admires and who inspire her, all over the age of 50. Salamon also includes sections breaking down the principles of dressing, such as: knowing your body and what looks good on it, shopping for the essential...
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Complete Guide to Boating and Seamanship
Powerboats - Canoeing and Kayaking - Fishing Boats - Navigation - Water Sports - Fishing - Water Survival - Electronics - Boating Safety - First Aid For Boaters
Paperback
Vin T. Sparano
9780789332875
$47.00
SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 14, 2017
The most complete boating instruction book ever to be published. From the author of the award-winning Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, this volume will prove to be the most indispensable guide for anyone interested in boating and seamanship. This monumental guide to being safe on the water is produced in full color, featuring more than 600 photographs, diagrams, and illustrations. This complete resource offers in-depth coverage of hull design, canoes and kayaks, boat construction, motors, trailers, boat maintenance, preparing for winter storag...
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Highland Retreats
The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland's Romantic North
Hardcover
Mary Miers
9780847844760
$85.00
HOUSE & HOME
May 30, 2017
Featuring breathtaking photographs of some of Scotland’s most remarkable and little-known houses, this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of the Highlands. Known as shooting lodges because they were designed principally to accommodate the parties of guests that flocked north for the annual sporting season, these houses range from Picturesque cottages ornées and Scotch Baronial castles to Ar...
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The New Chic
French Style From Today's Leading Interior Designers
Hardcover
Marie Kalt
9780847858231
$85.00
ARCHITECTURE
Apr 25, 2017
The next generation of Parisian interior designers curated by the editors of French Architectural Digest. From Vincent Darré and Joseph Dirand to India Mahdavi, a new wave of design talent has emerged in Paris. Combining nonchalant elegance with the French capital’s perennial chic flair, their interiors reflect a refreshingly innovative take on home decor while inspiring myriad designers across the globe. Renowned for publishing the very best of interior design, the editors of French Architectural Digest have thoughtfully curated a collection...
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Series:
Portzamparc Buildings
Hardcover
Philip Jodidio
9780847848720
$115.00
ARCHITECTURE
Nov 07, 2017
At the pinnacle of his profession and powers, Christian de Portzamparc is a shining star in the firmament of high design. Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc is renowned for bold yet artful architecture that is at once sensitive to its context while at the same time being novel, adventurous, and frequently exciting. One57, the soaring residential skyscraper in New York, with unparalleled views of Central Park, is perhaps his most famous building in the United States, but his work ranges widely across the globe, from an e...
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Shelburne Farms
House, Gardens, Farm, and Barns
Hardcover
Glenn Suokko
9780847858842
$85.00
HOUSE & HOME
Mar 21, 2017
Celebrating the beauty of Vermont’s Shelburne Farms, a National Historic Landmark on the shores of Lake Champlain. This book tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America’s leading aristocrats of the day, Lila Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb. Built between 1886 and 1905, the houses and barns, designed by architect Robert H. Robertson, include Shelburne House, the Webbs’ stunning Shingle- and Queen Anne-style residence with a formal Italianate flower garden, and the Breeding Barn, whic...
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Studio 54
Hardcover
Ian Schrager
9780847843442
$115.00
MUSIC
Sep 05, 2017
There has never been—and will never be—another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with star-studded photographs and personal stories from the greatest party of all time. From the moment it opened in 1977, Studio 54 celebrated spectacle and promised a never-ending parade of anything goes. Although it existed for only three years, it served as a catalyst that brought together some o...
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Elizabeth Peyton
Dark Incandescence
Hardcover
Kirsty Bell
9780847858552
$100.00
ART
Sep 19, 2017
This beautiful volume focuses on a five-year period in Elizabeth Peyton’s evolving career to suggest not only a visual chronicle of an age, its heroes, heroines, and interests, but also of an individual’s life—that of Peyton herself. Elizabeth Peyton’s work has been renowned since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her paintings and drawings of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends. This new volume, prepared by the artist in collaboration with designer Brendan Dugan, founder of Karma bookstore and gallery, presents a conc...
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How They Decorated
Inspiration from Great Women of the Twentieth Century
Hardcover
P. Gaye Tapp
9780847847419
$75.00
HOUSE & HOME
Apr 11, 2017
How They Decorated illustrates some of the great rooms of the twentieth century, whose stylish residents influence our tastes today. Gloria Vanderbilt cleverly noted, “Decorating is autobiography.” Reflecting that truism, the interiors in this book capture the individual approaches of these icons of style: Bunny Mellon’s spare all-American elegance; Hélène Rochas’s refined sophistication; Vanessa Bell’s colorful bohemianism; Mona von Bismarck’s breezy opulence; and Georgia O’Keeffe’s earthy chic. Author P. Gaye Tapp analyzes each of her subje...
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New York Living
Re-Inventing Home
Hardcover
Paul Gunther
9780847858453
$80.00
HOUSE & HOME
Apr 11, 2017
Residences featured here show New York living of the moment: homes that defy traditional definition but which are nevertheless rooted in the historic ground of the city. What does a home look like in twenty-first-century New York? While the city’s name alone brings to mind very specific ideas—the Fifth Avenue penthouse, with its elegant moldings and crystal chandeliers; the SoHo loft, with its bright spaces and air of bohemian ease; the Brooklyn brownstone, with its fireplaces, parquet floors, and lush backyards—the truth is, New York today i...
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Simple Nature
150 New Recipes for Fresh, Healthy Dishes
Hardcover
Alain Ducasse
9780847858750
$60.00
COOKING
Apr 25, 2017
For anyone interested in a healthier, lighter alternative to traditional French cuisine, this collection of simple, easy French recipes focuses on organic, locally sourced, and sustainable ingredients. Alain Ducasse’s Nature series of cookbooks makes eating healthfully on a daily basis both simple and pleasurable. Ducasse dispels the idea that French food is defined by complicated techniques, time- consuming recipes, and loads of butter and cream. Along with nutritionist Paule Neyrat and chef Christophe Saintagne, he shows how going back to b...
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What to Eat for How You Feel
The New Ayurvedic Kitchen - 100 Seasonal Recipes
Hardcover
Divya Alter
9780847859689
$53.95
COOKING
Apr 04, 2017
This indispensable kitchen companion brings the ancient art of delicious healthy cooking to the twenty-first century with flavors adapted for the contemporary Western palate. Drawing on her many years of vegetarian cooking, catering, and teaching, in this book Divya Alter explains how to create flavorful meals with seasonal ingredients by applying Ayurvedic principles. With food combinations, methods of preparation, and healing spices customized for individual needs, this is an inspirational guide to achieving optimal health through a persona...
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The Garden of Peter Marino
Hardcover
Peter Marino
9780847858781
$115.00
GARDENING
Apr 04, 2017
The internationally acclaimed architect’s grounds of his Hamptons estate on Long Island, New York—a lush garden oasis masterfully transformed over the course of two decades. Peter Marino’s quintessentially American landscape is a combination of organizational rigor and a joyful informality in the use of plant materials. The gardens feature carefully curated plants, trees, and flowers on twelve acres including a “color wheel” of purple, pink, red, and yellow gardens, evergreen trees, an apple orchard, a formal rose garden, and nearly forty wor...
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Christian Dior in the South of France
The Château de la Colle Noire
Hardcover
Laurence Benaim
9780847849369
$135.00
DESIGN
May 30, 2017
A celebration of the home and inspirations of Christian Dior in Provence. Provence will forever be intertwined with the story of Dior. It was here that Christian Dior chose to have his holiday home, La Colle Noire, where his passion for nature and botany flourished. The grounds of this sumptuous estate were ideal for cultivating flowers and the fragrant scents that inspired his couture and perfume creations. This book explores the beautiful gardens, breathtaking scenery, and rich history of La Colle Noire and its connections with the Dior fam...
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Grand Complications Volume XIII
Hardcover
Tourbillon International
9780847859658
$47.00
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Jan 02, 2080
This catalogue features the highest-quality complicated timepieces from the world’s most luxurious watchmakers. Fine timepieces are the ultimate signifiers of luxury. Published by Tourbillon International, this reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history to their most recent developments. This must-have guide is devoted to these marvels of artistry and mechanical sophistication and serves as an exceptional resource, setting the standards for collectors and retailers alike.
80.
Series:
Watches International XVIII
Paperback
Tourbillon International
9780847859665
$40.00
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
May 16, 2017
Showcasing the latest masterpieces from leading manufacturers, this is the most comprehensive and current guide on watches available. Now in its eighteenth edition, Watches International showcases the latest watches from around the world from every major watchmaker. Hundreds of beautiful photographs reveal the watches’ movements, functions, cases, and dials, accompanied by detailed editorials and technical descriptions. The who’s who of the watch industry features everyone from Audemars Piguet, Breguet, Bulgari, Hublot, Longines, Patek Philip...
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Cinecittà
The Legendary Film Studio
Hardcover
Cinecittà Studios
9780847859207
$55.00
PERFORMING ARTS
Oct 13, 2020
A richly illustrated book about one of the most iconic studios in film history. This fascinating volume presents the history of Cinecittà from its beginnings in 1937 until today, highlighting the Italian studio’s most important productions and famous actors. Known as “Hollywood on the Tiber,” in its glamorous heyday the studio was producing about 350 films a year, including American classics such as Ben-Hur and Cleopatra. Cinecittà became most closely associated with Federico Fellini, who spent four decades making his films there, including L...
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Hungry for France
Adventures for the Cook & Food Lover
Hardcover
Alexander Lobrano
9780789332967
$24.98
COOKING
Mar 14, 2017
A culinary tour of some of the most alluring inns, food producers, restaurants, and winemakers of France, with more than seventy-five recipes updating classic regional dishes. Every food lover's ultimate dream is to tour the countryside of France, stopping off at luxurious inns with world-class restaurants and sampling fresh produce from local markets. Imagine having as your guide a savvy bon vivant, someone who lives for the pleasures of the table and knows just where to ferret out all the delicacies in each town. This book delivers just tha...
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Nature's Larder
Cooking with the Senses
Hardcover
Daniel de la Falaise
9780789332912
$24.98
COOKING
Mar 14, 2017
This cookbook combines the farm-to-table appeal of Alice Waters with the French escapism of Patricia Wells. It will satisfy those who aspire to the lifestyle fantasies of Kinfolk magazine and follow chefs like Dan Barber and David Kinch. A thoughtful, deep-rooted way of cooking that reconnects us with the land. Daniel de la Falaise approaches cooking as a sensual task and a celebration of quality products involving as little interference as possible. His compass point: the taste of the raw ingredient just plucked from the soil. His way of coo...
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Seven Sisters Style
The All-American Preppy Look
Hardcover
Rebecca C. Tuite
9780789332950
$19.98
DESIGN
Mar 14, 2017
The first beautifully illustrated volume exclusively dedicated to the female side of preppy style by American college girls. The Seven Sisters are a prestigious group of American colleges, whose members perfected a flair that spoke to an aspirational lifestyle filled with education, travel, and excitement. Seven Sisters Style explores the multifaceted foundations and metamorphosis of this style, from the early twentieth century through today.
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The Artisanal Home
Interiors and Furniture of Casamidy
Hardcover
Anne-Marie Midy
9780789332936
$26.98
HOUSE & HOME
Mar 28, 2017
This first book on Casamidy's residences and interior design projects showcases their casual and refreshing cosmopolitan style. Their unique products, featuring Latin American artistry mixed with a global sophistication, have a devoted following among design aficionados. An arresting mix of artisanal, old, and contemporary furnishings is the hallmark of Casamidy’s vibrant and cheerful interiors. For the design duo of Casamidy, Jorge Almada and Anne-Marie Midy, creativity is a way of life that is reflected in their designs, a fusion of their F...
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Heart and Home
Rooms That Tell Stories
Hardcover
Linda O'Keefe
9780789332943
$26.98
HOUSE & HOME
Mar 28, 2017
The accessibility of these modernist spaces—comfortable and for today— will resonate with readers of Architectural Digest and Elle Décor, while the cutting edge reputations of their owners will appeal to a general audience. Innovative tastemakers from the worlds of interior design, architecture, fashion, and art open their doors to show us how to fill our homes with personal flair. Heart and Home: Rooms That Tell Stories offers a panorama of the varieties of forward-looking interior design today—from an eclectic, book-filled New York loft in ...
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Series:
Road Trip
Roadside America, From Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam Restaurant
Paperback
Richard Longstreth
9780789332929
$16.98
ARCHITECTURE
Mar 28, 2017
A loving tribute to American roadside and advertising architecture from a lifelong enthusiast with a unique collection of photography.With a focus on vernacular roadside architecture built between 1920 and the late 1960s, Road Trip is a time capsule of an extraordinary era and its roadside buildings, restaurants, gas stations, motels, and places of amusement, most of which are now long since gone.
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Series:
Alphonse Mucha
Hardcover
Tomoko Sato
9788857232430
$50.00
ART
Apr 24, 2018
“The mission of art is to express each nation’s aesthetic values in accordance with the beauty of its soul. The mission of the artist is to teach people to love that beauty.” —Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha was an extraordinarily prolific and versatile artist who made his mark in the diverse fields of design—including posters, jewelery, interior decoration, theater, and packaging and product designs— as well as in painting, book illustration, sculpture, and photography. He is one of the best-known Czech artists to wide international audiences ...
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Series:
Angel Otero
Everything and Nothing
Hardcover
Valerie Cassel Oliver
9788857231440
$55.00
ART
Feb 21, 2017
Angel Otero’s practice is process-driven. Whether made on canvas or with porcelain and steel, Otero’s creations mine the fissures of art-historical canons, as well as the personal histories that they evoke. Angel Otero’s works, while abstract, are embedded with deeply personal narratives. While the artist rejects the literal nature of narrative, it is explicit in the work, particularly in his early figurative paintings and his more recent bodies of “transfer paintings,” created using coal dust and charcoal on linen. Occupying a liminal space ...
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Series:
Domon Ken
The Master of Japanese Realism
Hardcover
Rossella Menegazzo
9788857232751
$60.00
PHOTOGRAPHY
Aug 15, 2017
An unsurpassed master of postwar Japanese realist photography and a reference for amateur photographers even today. The breadth and diversity of this Renaissance man’s oeuvre reveals untiring attention to and interest in the culture, art, faces, society, and politics of his country. With over 70,000 pictures taken between the 1920s and the 1980s, Domon Ken is considered the supreme master of Japanese photography as well as the main exponent of realism as the only approach possible. Over the years he honed his craft, shifting from propaganda p...
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Stile Ducati
A Visual History of Ducati Design
Hardcover
Various Authors
9788857232775
$115.00
TRANSPORTATION
Aug 15, 2017
A company born almost by chance but always steered by passion and love. 2016 is not like other years: it actually coincides with the ninetieth anniversary of Ducati, founded on July 4, 1926, almost as a dream, thanks to the will of the three brothers, Adriano, Bruno, and Marcello Cavalieri Ducati, supported by their father, Antonio. It is fitting to define Ducati’s history as a dream, because the adventure began in a dark laboratory in the center of Bologna, in Via Collegio di Spagna 7, when the workforce consisted of just two workers and a s...
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The Glass of the Architects
Vienna 1900-1937
Hardcover
Rainald Franz
9788857232447
$80.00
DESIGN
Feb 21, 2017
The second catalog dedicated to international developments in twentieth- century glass, after Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection. Published in collaboration with the MAK Vienna and LE STANZE DEL VETRO on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, this volume presents over 300 works from the collection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna and private collections. It focuses, for the first time, on the history of glassmaking in Austria from 1900 to 1937, a period spanning the last decades of the A...
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Good Dreams, Bad Dreams
American Mythologies
Hardcover
Massimiliano Gioni
9788857232386
$85.00
ART
Feb 21, 2017
A work of a multigenerational group of artists who engage in a complex analysis of American popular culture, entertaining a love-and-hate relationship with the founding myths of the American dream. At the core is a group of artists who have chronicled dramatic changes in the cultural and artistic history of America from the 1980s to the present day. Good Dreams, Bad Dreams includes important works by John Baldessari and Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Prince and Raymond Pettibon, Lutz Bacher, Rachel Harrison, Klara Lidén, Joyce Pensato and Amand...
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Santu Mofokeng
A Silent Solitude Photographs 1982-2011
Hardcover
Simon Njami
9788857232164
$80.00
PHOTOGRAPHY
Feb 21, 2017
This monograph is dedicated to Santu Mofokeng, winner of the International Prize for Photography. Being a photographer at the time when Santu Mofokeng decided to become one was not an unmotivated act. A psychological, moral, and sometimes physical war was being fought, and South Africa was its arena. Photography could not afford to be an artistic abstraction. It was both a political and intellectual commitment. It was anger; it was revolt. But it remained, in spite of everything, a form of writing, and that is how Mofokeng approached it. Not ...
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Mimmo Paladino
Hardcover
Germano Celant
9788857232218
$110.00
ART
Oct 24, 2017
This publication is an attentive analysis of the work of Mimmo Paladino, one of the most innovative and established contemporary artists in the world.This book covers his entire oeuvre from 1963 to 2015 and his role in renewing painting that, after including environmental interventions, shifted to photography and sculpture, architecture and cinema, opera and theater.The publication is also full of memories and poetry and a comprehensive iconographic section enriched by previously unpublished material regarding different periods of his life as a...
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Nabil Mousa
Breaking the Chains
Hardcover
John Cauman
9788857232034
$47.00
ART
Jun 27, 2017
Born in Syria and raised in the United States, Mousa incorporates the cultural tensions of both countries into his practice, combining them with his own personal convictions. Using color in unexpected ways, Mousa’s work is always framed by hope for greater equality, no matter how naive or impossible that might seem in the face of ever-challenging political and religious differences.
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New York Serenade
Hardcover
Michele Primi
9788857232508
$47.00
PHOTOGRAPHY
Feb 21, 2017
New York Serenade is homage to the city of New York. The project consists of fifty pictures that share stories we believe are relevant to describe the continuous changing of the historical sites, the urban landscape, and the different forms of art that the city itself produced over the years. Featuring historical places that have been fundamental in the history of New York’s music scene and no longer exist; streets, buildings, and boroughs described in their work by great New York artists; and places where everything started or everything hap...
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Nollywood Portraits
A Radical Beauty
Hardcover
Henry Gates Jr.
9788857232294
$100.00
PHOTOGRAPHY
Feb 21, 2017
The cinema of Nigeria is often referred to as Nollywood, a term coined in the mid-1990s to describe Nigeria’s vibrant, film industry consisting of movies produced in the country but watched all over Africa and largely by Africans in the diaspora. This book presents a selection of photographic portraits by Iké Udé depicting some of the major Nigerian actors and actresses, television presenters, directors, and producers. With his ongoing photographic self-portraits, Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance a...
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Federico Uribe
Watch the Parade 2017
Hardcover
Bartholomew F. Bland
9788857232812
$67.50
ART
Apr 24, 2018
This volume explores questions of where Uribe draws his artistic inspiration; the meaning and metaphors behind his selection of materials; and his views of love, sex, and death. This first comprehensive survey of Uribe’s work chronicles his brilliant use of the unexpected—shoes, screws, colored pencils, hangers—he magically turns into birds of the air, creatures of the jungle, and humans, hurt or happy. The book will trace nearly thirty years of his work, from his earliest oil paintings through his significant 1990s embrace of everyday three-...
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Series:
Wojciech Fangor
Hardcover
David Anfam
9788857232850
$67.50
ART
Nov 28, 2017
The first international publication dedicated to one of Poland’s most prominent artists.
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Series:
Samaras. Album 2
Hardcover
Donald Kuspit
9788857232713
$335.00
ART
May 02, 2017
The astounding 700 pictures that compose this book have all been digitally altered and feature the artist at various stages of his life and in different moods, poses, and states of undress. They range from images of a fresh-faced, innocent-looking boy to pictures of a bearded, sinister older man. Presiding over this autobiographical album— ostensibly a family album, for it begins with some photographs of Samaras’ Greek family—are thirty-four larger-scale photos of the artist as he looks today. Samaras seems to find himself endlessly fascina...
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Series:
Zeng Fanzhi
Catalogue Raisonné Volume I
Hardcover
Gladys Chung
9788857232393
$385.00
ART
Apr 24, 2018
Zeng Fanzhi: Catalogue Raisonné Volume I is a landmark publication systematically incorporating records from the studio, dealers, auction houses, museums, collectors, and any other possible sources to compile by far the most comprehensive record of the artist’s oeuvre. This catalog illustrates chronologically every confirmed work, inclusive of all media by the artist, with a time span from the 1980s to 2015. For each singular work, there is comprehensive information including detailed descriptions, inscriptions, provenance, background, preparat...
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Series:
Bloodlines
The Zhang Xiaogang Story
Hardcover
Lu Peng
9788857232737
$100.00
ART
Aug 15, 2017
The first major illustrated narrative on Zhang Xiaogang, China’s most prominent and influential contemporary painter. Written by Lü Peng, this book is both a biography of Zhang Xiaogang’s fascinating life story and an authoritative insider’s perspective of his most celebrated works. A luxuriously illustrated narrative over four decades, it provides an authentic and world-first contextual analysis of Zhang’s earliest years, family life, art studies, intellectual conflicts, European experiences, and his Bloodline work.
104.
Series:
Volker Hüller
Hardcover
Scott Indrisek
9788857232843
$47.00
ART
Aug 15, 2017
Constantly shifting between figuration and abstraction, Hüller’s works disassemble their materials—both physically and conceptually—to compose new forms. In his paintings and large-scale etchings, fragmented figures seemingly dance, love, and fight.
105.
Series:
Ryan McGinley
The Kids Were Alright
Hardcover
Nora Burnett Abrams
9780847859702
$75.00
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mar 07, 2017
The first book to examine Ryan McGinley’s early photographs and Polaroids—raw, visceral portraits of his coterie of friends and artists in downtown New York City. Published to accompany an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright focuses on the photographer’s early work from 1998 to 2003, the year of his solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. These early photographs and Polaroids—many of which have never been exhibited or published— document his friends and collaborators in downto...
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Daniel Lismore
Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken
Hardcover
Paula Wallace
9780847859634
$75.00
DESIGN
Feb 14, 2017
London’s most eccentric dresser reveals his wildly imaginative and transgressive personal style. Daniel Lismore is known for elaborate and extravagant ensembles that brilliantly combine haute couture with charity-shop finds, yards of vintage fabrics and tartans, found objects, ribbons, feathers, chain mail, shells, ethnic jewelry, retro accessories, millinery and more in an expression of eccentric, creative energy. A prominent fixture of the London fashion and nightlife circuits, he is both tastemaker and friend to artists ranging from Stephe...
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The Hidden Art
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Self-Taught Artists from the Audrey B. Heckler Collection
Hardcover
Valérie Rousseau
9780847859023
$67.50
ART
Mar 07, 2017
Published in collaboration with the American Folk Art Museum. This unparalleled survey celebrates the works of one of the world’s most important collections of self-taught artists. The Hidden Art reveals for the first time an exceptional trove of contemporary and historic artworks by an exemplary roster of international self-taught artists from the collection of Audrey B. Heckler. Heckler, who has been building her extensive collection with the highest criteria of quality and rigor since the early 1990s, is celebrated for having an acute inst...
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House Style
Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth
Hardcover
Duke of Devonshire
9780847858965
$60.00
DESIGN
Apr 04, 2017
Chatsworth has been home to the Cavendish family and the hereditary dukes of Devonshire since the original Elizabethan house was built on the site purchased by Sir William Cavendish in 1549. A famous historic house in England, Chatsworth is renowned as much for its fashionable history—its majestic dresses and tiaras, its magnificent lace and splendid uniforms—as its unrivaled collection of art, its palatial gardens, and its celebrated family dynasty. House Style takes the reader through images of show-stopping ensembles by the most celebrated...
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Enrico Baj
The Artist's Home
Hardcover
Michael Reynolds
9780847858996
$85.00
ART
Mar 14, 2017
An Italian villa never before open to the public houses a trove of artistic creativity and design by one of the central figures of the Italian neo–avant garde. Not far from Milan, in the hills of the northern Italian countryside, lies the estate of famed Italian artist Enrico Baj. This jewel of a book offers a unique lens through which to consider a true artistic giant of the late twentieth century associated with Dada, Surrealism, Art Informel, and CoBrA, as well as Nuclear Art, a movement he cofounded. Organized as a tour of the artist’s ho...
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Manolo Blahnik
The Art of Shoes
Hardcover
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz
9780847858972
$60.00
DESIGN
Mar 28, 2017
Through a playful series of alphabetical vignettes, Manolo Blahník reveals his ideas and inspirations in newly photographed examples of shoes and whimsical drawings. The shoes of Manolo Blahník have been called “magical totems of success and femininity” (The Guardian) and boast a cult following of devotees the world over. With their sleek elegance and distinctive fashion edge, “Manolos” are at once fascinating and timeless, their design a beautiful combination of chic, playfulness, and flair. This book explores the creativity and influences...
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Jim Lambie
Hardcover
John Giorno
9780847859061
$100.00
ART
Aug 22, 2017
The first major monograph on Turner Prize–nominated Glasgow artist Jim Lambie. This long-awaited volume surveys the career of Glasgow-based contemporary sculptor Jim Lambie. From his distinctive floor works, striped from wall to wall with vibrant electrical tape, to his paint-soaked mattresses, Lambie adroitly sculpts humor and pathos from the clutter of modern life. Working with items immediately at hand, as well as those sourced in secondhand and hardware stores, he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, accessories, doors, and mirror...
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Born 1989 and After, 100 Creatives Building the Culture of Tomorrow
Hardcover
Simon Castets
9780847847570
$53.95
ART
Sep 18, 2018
A fast-paced introduction to the designers, artists, and creatives shaping tomorrow’s world. Curators Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist join forces to ask an important question: How will the world be different when its most influential creatives are born into a universally accessible Internet? This international project tracks the changing modes of production, concerns, aspirations, and projects of 100 protagonists born in or after 1989. Illustrated profiles include artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, musicians, designers, scientists a...
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Painting a Nation
American Art at Shelburne Museum
Hardcover
Thomas Denenberg
9780847859580
$60.00
ART
Jun 06, 2017
An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum’s trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. During an era that preferred European modernism and abstraction, Webb’s visionary endeavor presented a ne...
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Mark Tobey
Threading Light
Hardcover
Debra Bricker Balken
9780847859047
$75.00
ART
May 02, 2017
Accompanying a major retrospective, this long-overdue survey establishes Mark Tobey as a pioneering champion of abstraction in America. The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Mark Tobey in forty years, this book traces the evolution of this artist’s groundbreaking style and his significant yet under-recognized contributions to abstraction and midcentury American modernism. One of the foremost American artists to emerge from the 1940s, a decade that saw the rise of Abstract Expressionism, Tobey (1890–1976) is now recognized as...
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American Treasures
The Brandywine River Museum of Art
Hardcover
Thomas Padon
9780847859610
$60.00
ART
Apr 25, 2017
The first book to celebrate the dramatic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, setting and renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art and its historic homes, studios, and sites relating to three generations of the Wyeth family. The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country’s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum’s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel- and-glass addition overlooking the Brandywine River, and of its...
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Andrew Wyeth
People and Places
Paperback
Thomas Padon
9780847859085
$26.95
ART
May 02, 2017
The major paintings of iconic American artist Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) presented together in an accessible volume. Andrew Wyeth is an essential introduction to the enduring masterworks of this profoundly popular American artist. Published on the occasion of the centennial of the artist’s birth, this handsome book highlights works spanning the entirety of the artist’s seven-decade career painting the landscapes and people he knew in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he lived, and in Maine, where he summered. Many of his most important landsca...
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Takashi Murakami
The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
Hardcover
Michael Darling
9780847859115
$85.00
ART
May 30, 2017
The first major U.S. monograph in ten years on Murakami is the definitive survey of the paintings of one of today’s most influential artists. Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), one of contemporary art’s most widely recognized exponents, receives a long-awaited critical consideration in this important volume. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami’s paintings, this book traces Murakami’s career from his earliest training to his current studio practice. Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakami’...
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Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Contemporary Design Icons
Hardcover
Julien Lombrail
9780847859757
$95.00
ART
Feb 13, 2018
A must-have compendium of high-design furniture from the gallery that pioneered the field. This richly illustrated volume gathers together the major works of an ambitious group of designers who transcend the classical borders of art and design. Championed by Carpenters Workshop Gallery, these international rising and established artists create functional sculptures, often outside their traditional territories of expression. Texts by founders Julien Lombrail and Loïc Le Gaillard trace the history of this design movement, and their pioneering d...
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Breakfast Bowls
52 Nourishing Recipes to Kick-Start Your Day
Paperback
Caroline Griffiths
9781925418262
$24.95
COOKING
Feb 07, 2017
Kick-start your mornings with a delicious and nutritious breakfast bowl. We all tend to get stuck in the pattern of eating the same breakfast every day—or skipping it altogether. For many, breakfast means a bowl of (often unhealthy) shop-bought cereal or toast. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Kick-start your day with one of fifty-two healthful, wholesome breakfast bowls—a new one for every week of the year. Breakfast Bowls will inspire you to get back to a healthy way of living. Bursting with color and nutrition in every mouthful, a wel...
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Should I Buy This Book?
Life's Hardest Decisions Made Easy... by Flow Chart
Paperback
Tobias Anthony
9781925418279
$16.95
HUMOR
Feb 07, 2017
Stop before making another terrible decision again! Let this book put you on the right path. Should you add your mom as a friend on Facebook? How about getting that face tattoo? Is it the right time to quit your job? You’re at a child’s birthday party— is it wise to keep drinking? It’s late at night—are you thinking about texting an ex? Maybe you want to launch your Tinder profile? Before doing anything, think again and consult this book! Should I Buy This Book?—think of it as the paper equivalent of a Magic 8 Ball—helps you make the best d...
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