A Table in Paris: The Restaurants, Bistros and Cafes I Love
100.00 ₾A Table in Paris by John Donohue (Abrams) — paintings and profiles of the restaurants, bistros, and cafés Donohue loves in Paris, capturing the specific quality of light in a particular brasserie at a particular hour, the relationship between red banquettes and mirrored walls, the way afternoon light falls across a zinc counter. A beautiful celebration of one of the world’s great food cultures — the ideal companion for any visit to Paris. Published by Abrams.
Hermès
150.00 ₾Hermès by Alice Charbin (Abrams) — an illustrated celebration of the house founded in 1837 as a harness-maker and transformed over a century and a half into the world’s most carefully guarded luxury brand: its history, its craft, its iconic objects, and the visual culture it has created. What craftsmanship means at its highest level — the scarves, bags, and leather goods coveted not for their logo but for their making. Published by Abrams.
Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
250.00 ₾Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion by Marcellas Reynolds (Abrams) — from Donyale Luna through Iman, Naomi Campbell, and Tyra Banks to the contemporary models reshaping the industry: the complete story of how Black women have been central to the history of fashion modelling, presented with historical depth and visual celebration. An essential document of beauty, power, and the politics of representation in fashion. Published by Abrams.
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads
200.00 ₾The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads by Lauren Wilford (Abrams) — the best work from multiple iterations of the beloved Bad Dads art show, in which independent artists from around the world respond to Anderson’s visual world with creativity that reflects how deeply his aesthetic has penetrated the popular imagination. Essays contextualise both the art and the films — a beautiful celebration of one of cinema’s most distinctive visual artists. Published by Abrams.
Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style
150.00 ₾Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style by Olivier Saillard (Abrams) — a beautiful and authoritative account of YSL’s career focused on the concept of perfection: the standard he held himself to and that his best work achieves. The trouser suit, the safari jacket, the tuxedo — the pieces that liberated the female body while simultaneously creating some of the most beautiful clothes ever made. Essential for serious students of fashion history. Published by Abrams.
Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury
500.00 ₾Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury by Pierre Léonforte (Abrams) — the complete history of Louis Vuitton from its trunk-making origins in 1854 through the development of the luxury goods division to the contemporary fashion house — tracing how a company founded on travel equipment became one of the most recognisable luxury brands in the world. Historical depth and visual richness — the essential Louis Vuitton reference. Published by Abrams.
Religions of the World
90.00 ₾Religions of the World (Lorenz Books) — Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, and the indigenous traditions of Africa, Australia, and the Americas — each presented from its origins through its major texts, ritual practices, sacred sites, and contemporary global presence. The most complete one-volume guide to world religion available, with the visual richness and historical depth the subject demands. Published by Lorenz Books.
J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Movie Magic
100.00 ₾J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Movie Magic (Bloomsbury) — the official companion to the Wizarding World film series, presenting the visual language of the films in extraordinary detail: production designs, creature effects, costume designs, set decorations, and behind-the-scenes photography revealing how the most complex elements of an imagined world are translated into physical reality. Essential for fans of the films and students of production design. Published by Bloomsbury.
Natural Living by Design
180.00 ₾Natural Living by Design (Cabana) — homes, gardens, and ways of life that prioritise organic materials, seasonal rhythms, and the beauty that only genuinely living things can provide. Cabana’s celebration of a commitment to the materials and sensory pleasures that connect us to the world we are part of — presented with the visual intelligence and warmth that have made Cabana the world’s most influential interiors publication. Published by Cabana.
Interiors Styled by Nature
250.00 ₾Interiors Styled by Nature (Cabana) — domestic environments that bring the outside world in, using stone, wood, plant life, and the specific quality of light in each location to create spaces of extraordinary beauty and organic warmth. Cabana’s celebration of the most sophisticated interior approach: one that prioritises natural materials and forms over the manufactured aesthetic that dominates contemporary design culture. Published by Cabana.
Island Dreaming: Inspired Interiors for a Relaxed Home
250.00 ₾Island Dreaming: Inspired Interiors for a Relaxed Home (Cabana) — the most beautiful island interiors from the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean: the specific visual language of island living presented with Cabana’s characteristic richness and warmth. Light, water, natural beauty, and liberation from mainland complexity — the combination that has drawn people to islands throughout human history, embodied in extraordinary domestic spaces. Published by Cabana.
Cabana Anthology
380.00 ₾Cabana Anthology by Martina Mondadori Sartogo (Cabana) — the best of five years of Cabana magazine: the quarterly that has redefined what a beautiful home can look like, consistently presenting domestic environments of extraordinary personality against the tide of contemporary taste homogenisation. Maximalist, colourful, historically rich — the most complete available overview of the Cabana vision. Published by Cabana.
Copacabana Palace: Where the World Meets
350.00 ₾Copacabana Palace: Where the World Meets (Cabana) — the story of the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, welcoming the world’s most glamorous visitors since 1923, told through its architecture, interiors, guests, and the specific quality of Rio de Janeiro life that the Palace both reflects and creates. A portrait of one of the world’s great hotels and of the extraordinary city that surrounds it. Published by Cabana.
Mexican: A Journey Through the Cuisine
200.00 ₾Mexican: A Journey Through the Cuisine (Cabana) — a comprehensive Cabana cookbook presenting the full range of Mexican culinary tradition: pre-Columbian ingredients and techniques, Spanish colonial cooking, and the regional diversity of a country spanning tropical coasts, mountain valleys, and arid highlands. As diverse, as regionally specific, and as historically deep as any culinary tradition in the world — presented with Cabana’s characteristic visual richness. Published by Cabana.
Casa Cabana
380.00 ₾Casa Cabana by Martina Mondadori Sartogo (Cabana) — the most extraordinary maximalist, colour-saturated, print-rich domestic interiors from the archives of Cabana magazine, which has become the most influential interiors publication of the past decade. Houses in Brazil, Italy, France, Morocco, and New York that embody the Cabana aesthetic at its most vivid — a celebration of home as an expression of personality, history, and the accumulated pleasures of a life well lived. Published by Cabana.
Ballerina
200.00 ₾Ballerina (Cabana) — the world of classical ballet celebrated through photography, backstage imagery, and the personal stories of the dancers who have dedicated their lives to one of the most visually spectacular and technically demanding performing arts. From the great European ballet companies to emerging schools of contemporary dance — Cabana’s visual intelligence applied to an art form of extraordinary physical and artistic difficulty. Published by Cabana.
The Wes Anderson Collection
200.00 ₾The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz (Abrams) — the most comprehensive and most intelligent account of Anderson’s work from Bottle Rocket through Moonrise Kingdom: detailed analysis of each film, production photographs and sketches, and the interviews that reveal how Anderson thinks about the cinema he makes. One of the finest filmmaker monographs of recent years — essential for any Anderson devotee. Published by Abrams.
The Dutch Golden Age: Painting in Holland in the 17th Century
80.00 ₾The Dutch Golden Age by Jp A. Calosse (Lorenz Books) — a comprehensive guide to the most significant school of painting outside Italy: Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals and Jan Steen, in response to the specific conditions of the Dutch Republic, the rise of a bourgeois art market, and the Protestant tradition that displaced religious subject matter in favour of the everyday world. Historical context and visual analysis of the major works throughout. Published by Lorenz Books.
Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Jp A. Calosse (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Rubens works tracing the career of the most prolific and most energetically vital painter of the Baroque: altarpieces, mythological canvases, portraits, and landscapes of such physical energy and visual richness that they remain the definitive statement of Baroque excess and Baroque pleasure. Published by Lorenz Books.
Home-Made Cheese: Artisan Cheesemaking Made Simple
70.00 ₾Home-Made Cheese: Artisan Cheesemaking Made Simple by Paul Peacock (Lorenz Books) — a comprehensive guide to home cheese-making from simple fresh cheeses ready in hours (ricotta, cottage cheese, cream cheese) through the aged hard cheeses requiring weeks of careful management. One of the most rewarding and most accessible of the traditional food crafts, producing freshness and flavour that commercial production cannot match. Published by Lorenz Books.
Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Manet paintings alongside the biographical material tracing the most controversial and most consequential career in nineteenth-century French painting. The man who, with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, forced the question of what modern painting was allowed to depict — and whose answer transformed the history of Western art. Published by Lorenz Books.
Yoga and Pilates: Combined Techniques for Health and Vitality
40.00 ₾Yoga and Pilates: Combined Techniques for Health and Vitality (Lorenz Books) — a systematic guide to combining yoga and Pilates into a single practice of extraordinary completeness: flexible and strong, centred and mobile, both energised and calm. Covers foundational poses and movements through more advanced sequences, with photographic instruction making each technique accessible to practitioners at every level. Published by Lorenz Books.
Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Velázquez paintings, from the early Seville genre scenes through the court portraits of Philip IV to the incomparable Las Meninas. The greatest court painter of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest painters in Western art — whose psychological penetration and mastery of light and shadow have never been surpassed. Published by Lorenz Books.
Degas: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Degas: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Gill Knappett (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Degas works alongside the biographical material tracing his extraordinary career. The most psychologically acute of the Impressionists — the painter who captured the backstage reality of the Paris ballet and the exhaustion of the laundress with a visual intelligence that went beyond Impressionism toward something more like a novelist’s interest in character and situation. Published by Lorenz Books.
Uniforms of World War II
90.00 ₾Uniforms of World War II by Andrew Mollo (Lorenz Books) — the uniforms of every major national force in the Second World War, from the Wehrmacht and the Red Army through the British, American, and Commonwealth forces to the Japanese Imperial Army and the Italian Regia Esercito, with full-colour illustrations and historical context for each national uniform tradition. A comprehensive reference for military history enthusiasts. Published by Lorenz Books.
Monet: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Monet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Monet paintings alongside the biographical material that places them in the context of his long, productive life. Monet painted water, light, and atmosphere with a persistence and precision that no other painter has matched — returning to the same subjects across decades to watch how light changed them through seasons and hours. Published by Lorenz Books.
Vinegar and Oil: A Cook’s Guide to the Most Essential Flavours
75.00 ₾Vinegar and Oil: A Cook’s Guide (Lorenz Books) — the complete world of culinary vinegar and cooking oil: wine, cider, rice, balsamic, and sherry vinegars; olive, walnut, avocado, coconut, and sesame oils — each covered with history, production methods, tasting notes, and recipes demonstrating what it can do in the kitchen. The foundational flavour pair in cooking, treated with the depth and seriousness it deserves. Published by Lorenz Books.
Simply Delishaas: Bold, Comforting South Asian Recipes
130.00 ₾Simply Delishaas by Dixya Bhattarai (DK) — the full breadth of South Asian culinary heritage — Nepali, Indian, and Pakistani recipes alongside diaspora cooking evolved in the West — presented with the confidence and specificity that come from cooking these dishes at home for a lifetime. Bold, comforting, and flavour-forward: the cookbook that finally gives South Asian cuisine the English-language treatment it deserves. Published by DK.
The Montessori Home
70.00 ₾The Montessori Home by Ashley Yeh (DK) — a practical guide to creating Montessori-inspired home environments for children: spaces designed at their level, with materials that support independent activity and development at every stage. Covers every room, every age, and the specific materials and arrangements that support Montessori learning at home — based on the radical principle that children learn best in environments designed to respect their intelligence. Published by DK.
Yoshitomo Nara
350.00 ₾Yoshitomo Nara (Phaidon) — the most comprehensive monograph of the most beloved contemporary Japanese artist’s work from 2020 to the present: new paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the creator of the wide-eyed children and fierce dogs that have achieved global recognition bridging fine art and popular culture. The definitive Nara reference — essential for fans and a beautiful introduction for those encountering his work for the first time. Published by Phaidon.
Lucian Freud: A Life
550.00 ₾Lucian Freud: A Life by William Feaver (Phaidon) — the definitive biography by the author who knew Freud personally for the last three decades of his life and had unprecedented access to the artist and his archive. Two volumes tracing the complete life: the Berlin childhood, the London exile, the long career, the multiple families, the gambling, and the sixty years of nude paintings that constitute one of the most sustained and most honest engagements with the human body in painting history. Published by Phaidon.
500 Self-Portraits
120.00 ₾500 Self-Portraits by Julian Bell (Phaidon) — the complete history of the most intimate genre in the visual arts, from Dürer’s Messianic self-portrait through Rembrandt’s decades of self-scrutiny, Frida Kahlo’s symbolic autobiography, and the contemporary artists who have pushed the genre into entirely new territory. A complete history of how artists see themselves — and therefore of how they see, full stop. Essential Phaidon. Published by Phaidon.
Now Make This: 24 DIY Projects from the Creative Team at Phaidon
90.00 ₾Now Make This by Phaidon Editors (Phaidon) — twenty-four hands-on projects created by the editorial and design team at Phaidon, drawing on the visual vocabulary of artists, designers, and craftspeople whose work Phaidon has documented over its century of publishing. Bookbinding, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, and graphic design — each chosen to introduce a specific material or technique. A beautifully produced invitation to creative practice. Published by Phaidon.
Japan: The Cookbook
200.00 ₾Japan: The Cookbook by Nancy Singleton Hachisu (Phaidon) — over four hundred recipes presenting the full diversity of Japanese cuisine by an American who has lived in rural Japan for decades: kaiseki tradition, Tokyo street food, Hokkaido ramen, mountain hotpots, coastal seafood. The most comprehensive and most authentic Japanese cookbook available in English. An essential resource and a fascinating cultural document. Published by Phaidon.
Peru: The Cookbook
150.00 ₾Peru: The Cookbook by Gastón Acurio (Phaidon) — over five hundred recipes presenting the full range of Peruvian cuisine by the chef who has spent three decades arguing for its place among the world’s great culinary traditions. Indigenous, Spanish, African, Chinese, and Japanese influences; extraordinary biodiversity of ingredients; every region and every tradition covered. The definitive Peruvian cookbook — indispensable for anyone serious about one of food’s most exciting traditions. Published by Phaidon.
Cooking con Claudia
100.00 ₾Cooking con Claudia by Claudia Romo Edelman (Abrams) — a personal cookbook from a lifetime between cultures: Mexican roots, international career, American home. Recipes drawing on the richness of traditional Mexican cooking alongside the influences of the wider world, with personal stories giving them meaning — a celebration of food as cultural memory and present-tense pleasure. Published by Abrams.
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