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Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, ...

Drawn from TASCHENs Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the g...

Successful interiors tell stories - be they of an industrial loft, a luxury penthouse, or a grand old villa. When presented together, as in this bo...

The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platfor...

Cinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed both in how we watch movies, and in ho...

Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologica...

The history of nude photography is the history of peoples fascination with the topic. Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the o...

Girls, Gags & Giggles, ran publisher Robert Harrisons recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture ...

Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion....

Whether youre thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to che...

The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry employing milli...

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigo...

As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media acti...

The paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty o...

Elvis who? was photographer Alfred Wertheimers response when, in early 1956, RCA Victor asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memph...

With the consumerist euphoria of the fifties still going strong and the race to the moon at its height, the mood of advertising in the sixties was ...

Both eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages that were typ...

With the cold war ebbing, crime and inflation at record levels, and movie star-turned-President Ronald Reagan launching a Star Wars of his own, the...

From the Los Angeles riots to the Columbine High School massacre, Americans witnessed events and purchased items that reflected the best and worst ...

These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by the Detroit Photographic C...

Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the disciplines four most prestigious prizes: the Pritz...

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amas...

At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical s...

It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establi...

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innova...

The People''s Photographer August Sander, unique chronicler of interwar society August Sander (1876-1964) is regarded as one of the greatest ...