CodeCrafted Generative Design in Branding
150.00 ₾A visually spectacular survey of generative design in branding — algorithms and code creating identities that evolve and vary in ways traditional design cannot. Victionary’s exceptional production presents case studies from studios worldwide in an essential guide to the computational future of visual identity.
Stylepedia A Visual Directory of Fashion Styles
150.00 ₾The essential visual dictionary of fashion styles — A-line to wrap dress, military to sportswear, every silhouette and garment type illustrated and precisely defined. A Fashionary reference that makes fashion’s design vocabulary accessible: invaluable for students, stylists, buyers, and anyone communicating about clothes.
Arcimboldo, Bassano, Bruegel Nature’s Time
300.00 ₾Three Renaissance masters — Arcimboldo, Bassano, and Bruegel — examined through their shared engagement with nature, seasons, and time. Arcimboldo’s fruit portraits, Bassano’s pastoral scenes, and Bruegel’s seasonal landscapes in a scholarly and elegantly illustrated study of art’s dialogue with the natural world.
Corbijn, Anton
500.00 ₾Anton Corbijn’s major retrospective — defining portraits of Joy Division, Depeche Mode, U2, and the figures who shaped rock music, in collaboration with painter Marlene Dumas. Essential for fans of music photography and anyone interested in images that are simultaneously commercial and culturally defining.
20 x 20 Twenty Architects x Twenty Iconic Homes of India
200.00 ₾Twenty Indian architects, each represented by a landmark house — a diverse portrait of a design culture simultaneously rooted in Indian spatial tradition and engaged with global contemporary architecture. Gauri Kelkar’s survey reveals extraordinary range and ambition in contemporary Indian residential design.
Azzedine Alaïa, Thierry Mugler: 1980-1990 Two Decades of Artistic Affinities
180.00 ₾The definitive document of Alaïa and Mugler — two designers who defined 1980s power dressing through architectural silhouettes and sculptural treatment of the female body. Their work presented side by side in a Skira publication of exceptional photography: essential fashion history from the decade when dress was most confident.
Douglas Kirkland: Romance
200.00 ₾A retrospective selection of Douglas Kirkland’s celebrated Hollywood photography — Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Coco Chanel, and the golden age of cinema, documented with technical brilliance and genuine warmth. Essential for admirers of entertainment photography and the art of the intimate portrait.
ToiletMiles PaperAldridge. Ediz. Illustrata
80.00 ₾A special collaboration between Toiletpaper and fashion photographer Miles Aldridge — hyper-saturated, cinematic domestic scenes meeting Cattelan and Ferrari’s provocative aesthetic in a publication that is simultaneously fashion monograph and conceptual art. Essential for fans of both parties.
The Pleasure of Seeing
260.00 ₾An intimate conversation with street photography legend Joel Meyerowitz — on his life, influences, technique, and philosophy of looking. Essential for photographers and students of the medium: what it means to spend a life paying attention to the visible world, from a master of colour photography.
Toiletpaper Magazine 20
80.00 ₾Two decades of the most singular magazine in contemporary art photography — issue 20 of Cattelan and Ferrari’s brilliantly provocative visual document that occupies a unique space between art, advertising, and conceptual humour. Produced with exceptional print quality and consistently collectable.
Toiletpaper Magazine 19
80.00 ₾Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s ongoing masterpiece of visual provocation — hyperreal, darkly comic, and always deeply strange. Issue 19 of the most consistently surprising and collected publication in contemporary art photography, produced to the highest print standards.
Toiletpaper Magazine 18
80.00 ₾Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s provocative magazine — advertising aesthetics, surrealist photography, and pure visual provocation in one of contemporary art’s most distinctive and collected publications. Each image defies categorisation, combining humour and discomfort with extraordinary photographic imagination.
Max Ernst: Surrealism, Art and Cinema
120.00 ₾A comprehensive scholarly examination of Max Ernst’s engagement with cinema — as influence on his visual imagination and as a medium explored directly. Mazzotta and Pech reveal cinematic thinking throughout his collages, paintings, and collaborations in this essential Skira study of Surrealism and film.
Japan Arts and Life The Montgomery Collection
200.00 ₾Highlights from the Montgomery Collection — one of the finest private collections of Japanese art in the West, spanning Edo-period painting, prints, lacquerwork, and textiles chosen for quality and aesthetic refinement. A Skira scholarly catalogue essential for collectors and Japanese art enthusiasts.
Photography Two Centuries of History and Images
220.00 ₾A comprehensive Skira survey of photography’s two centuries — from daguerreotypes to the digital present, covering portraiture, documentary, fashion, fine art, and scientific photography. Walter Guadagnini’s one-volume introduction is an essential reference for understanding the medium’s full extraordinary richness.
Campari and Cinema
250.00 ₾A beautifully produced Skira celebration of Campari’s partnership with cinema — from early commissioned films to recent calendar films of unusual artistry. Documents a brand’s commitment to moving image work that consistently transcends commercial origins through collaboration with directors and artists.
The Architectural Sketches of Henning Larsen
200.00 ₾Henning Larsen’s working sketches and conceptual drawings — hand-drawn documents of architectural thinking in process, from the Danish architect behind some of Scandinavia’s most celebrated buildings. Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup’s scholarly commentary illuminates the relationship between drawing and design.
Fighting, Hunting, Impressing Arms and Armour from the Islamic World 1500-1850
260.00 ₾Highlights from a world-class collection of Islamic arms and armour — swords, helmets, and shields from the Ottomans, Mughals, and Safavids, objects of extraordinary beauty and technical sophistication. A comprehensive scholarly catalogue essential for collectors and historians of Islamic art.
Printing Design for Graphic Designers An Inspirational Guide to Special Production Techniques and Finishes
90.00 ₾A comprehensive guide to printing techniques for graphic designers — letterpress, screen printing, digital offset, foiling, embossing, and die-cutting, illustrated with contemporary design examples. An essential SendPoints reference for designers who want to understand print production as a creative dimension.
Bruce Davidson: the Way Back
160.00 ₾A major retrospective of Bruce Davidson’s documentary photography — Brooklyn gangs, East 100th Street, the New York subway, the Civil Rights movement. Previously unseen work alongside classics: an essential document of a Magnum photographer’s career spanning American life with sensitivity and moral seriousness.
Transform! Design and the Future of Energy
300.00 ₾A Vitra Design Museum publication examining how design responds to the energy transition — objects, systems, and strategies for renewable energy and efficiency. Mateo Kries and Jochen Eisenbrand ask what designers can contribute to one of humanity’s most urgent challenges.
Japan in Early Photographs The Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel
270.00 ₾The photographic archive of Swiss diplomat Aimé Humbert documenting Japan in the 1860s — the final years of the Edo period, a world about to transform beyond recognition. A rare and historically invaluable visual record published with scholarly commentary on one of history’s pivotal cultural encounters.
Women Photographers From Anna Atkins to Newsha Tavakolian
160.00 ₾A comprehensive survey of women’s contribution to photography from Anna Atkins to contemporary practice — over 50 photographers whose techniques, subjects, and gender have shaped the medium in ways mainstream histories have too often undervalued. A Prestel essential that enriches your understanding of photography.
Textiles of India
350.00 ₾A comprehensive visual study of India’s extraordinary textile traditions — silk brocades, block-printed cottons, ikat weaves, and embroideries representing one of the world’s richest and most technically sophisticated craft cultures. The Neumanns’ Prestel volume is essential for textile historians and collectors.
50 Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
75.00 ₾Accessible, enthusiastic introductions to 50 key Impressionist paintings — Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt — with clear analysis of technique, historical context, and artistic development. A Prestel guide for new arrivals to the most loved movement in Western art and those wanting to look more deeply.
50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know
75.00 ₾Clear, accessible introductions to 50 of the most significant contemporary artists — from Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman to Ai Weiwei and Kara Walker. A Prestel guide that avoids jargon while remaining intellectually honest: the ideal starting point for anyone navigating contemporary art.
Angelica Kauffman
170.00 ₾The definitive monograph on Angelica Kauffman — founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the eighteenth century’s most celebrated painters, who achieved major status in Neoclassical art against systematic exclusion. A Prestel scholarly recovery of a genuinely important and too-long-overlooked figure.
Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe
220.00 ₾The scholarly companion to an important exhibition tracing how Caravaggio’s revolutionary light and naturalism were absorbed and transformed by the Utrecht Caravaggists. A Prestel examination of the lines of influence connecting Italian baroque to the Dutch Golden Age.
Georg Baselitz The Heroes
160.00 ₾Georg Baselitz’s monumental 1960s Hero paintings — wounded, alienated figures in devastated landscapes, a raw and powerful response to the moral catastrophe of German history. A Prestel scholarly publication documenting one of the most significant series in postwar European art.
After Cinema Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art
140.00 ₾Heinz Peter Schwerfel’s comprehensive examination of how cinema’s language has been absorbed and transformed by contemporary media art — from Bill Viola to Hito Steyerl. A Hatje Cantz essential for film scholars and art curators interested in moving image beyond the screen.
World Press Photo Yearbook 2024
150.00 ₾The most important photojournalism of 2024 — World Press Photo prize-winners and nominees bearing witness to the year’s most significant events, conflicts, and human moments. The authoritative Hatje Cantz annual document for photographers, journalists, and anyone who values documentary photography’s power.
Expanded Animation Mapping an Unlimited Landscape
100.00 ₾A scholarly survey of animation beyond the screen — installation, performance, digital art, and the full range of contemporary expanded practice. Hagler and Lankes’s Hatje Cantz volume maps a rapidly evolving field where animation techniques are applied across creative disciplines with transformative results.
Japanese Homes Minimalism, Balance, Elegance
200.00 ₾Contemporary Japanese residential architecture — urban houses on minimal footprints to rural retreats, all sharing the characteristic Japanese ability to create serenity and beauty within constraints. Chris van Uffelen’s Braun Architecture survey of minimalism, balance, and elegance in Japanese domestic design.
Apartment Building Architecture Contemporary Solutions
200.00 ₾An international survey of the most inventive contemporary apartment buildings — projects addressing dense urban housing with architectural intelligence and formal ambition. Chris van Uffelen’s comprehensive Braun Architecture reference provides floor plans, sections, and photography across a globally diverse selection.
Suspension: a History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918-2018
180.00 ₾The first comprehensive history of abstract hanging sculpture from 1918 to the present — from Rodchenko and Moholy-Nagy through Calder’s mobiles to contemporary practitioners. Matthieu Poirier fills a significant gap in modern art scholarship in a richly illustrated, accessible volume.
Louvre Abu Dhabi The Complete Guide
140.00 ₾The authoritative companion to the Louvre Abu Dhabi — Jean Nouvel’s spectacular dome, a collection spanning world civilisations from antiquity to the present, and the cultural significance of a museum making Western collections dialogue with global civilisation. Essential for museum and architecture enthusiasts.
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