Phaidon (482 kníh )
-
Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi: Question ENHow can I raise GBP5000 in a hurry? How do you sleep at night? Is it better to give than to receive? What's the secret of inner peace? In this new volume, influential art collector Charles Saatchi provides the answers to these, and over 100 more, fresh questions. Although Saatchi famously refuses to be interviewed, this new book reveals his brutally frank responses to a battery of questions put to him by leading…
-
Kei Lum Chan China ENThe definitive cookbook bible of the world’s most popular and oldest cuisine. In the tradition of bestsellers including Mexico and The Nordic Cookbook comes the next title in the multimillion-selling national cuisine series, China: The Cookbook. Featuring more than 650 recipes for delicious and authentic Chinese dishes for the home kitchen, this impressive and authoritative book showcases the culinary diversity of…
-
Mayuko Takeuchi Circle, Triangle, Elephant ENA clever and refreshing approach to learning about shapes, with a bit of silliness mixed in. This unexpected take on shapes offers a breath of fresh air within this well-established toddler concept genre. With bright block-art visuals and a rhythmic, read-aloud text, this book begins by offering familiar shapes - a triangle, a circle, and a square - and then throws an elephant into the equation: triangle, elephant,…
-
Ellen Mara De Wachter Co-Art ENTwenty-five leading artist duos and collectives give insight into how and why to work collaboratively. Art history is traditionally presented as the individual's struggle for self-expression, yet over the past fifty years, the number of artists working collaboratively has grown exponentially. Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration explores this phenomenon through conversations with twenty-five leading art-world…
-
Ferran Adrià, Mario Batali Coco ENCoco is an exciting, unprecedented guide to the most exceptional talent in the international restaurant world. Following in the footsteps of Phaidon's successful 10x10 series featuring emerging young artists in different fields, such as contemporary art (cream, Fresh Cream, Cream 3, and Ice Cream), architecture (10x10 and 10x10_2), photography (BLINK), and graphic design (Area, and Area 2), Coco presents 100 of the…
-
Snohetta Collective IntuitionThe first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working today With offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Snohetta's architecture, landscape, interior, and br
-
William Hall, Leonard Koren ConcreteA visual exploration of the world's most extraordinary and inspiring concrete architecture - in a stylish and compact format. In this new, reimagined, and easy-to-use stylish size, Concrete takes a fresh look at the world's most versatile and abundant building material. Collating fascinating and beautiful concrete buildings by some of the most celebrated architects of the last century, it features familiar projects…
-
Jonathan Clarkson Constable ENThis lavishly illustrated monograph of the great British landscapist John Constable (1776-1837) presents a definitive survey of the painter's life and works. Jonathan Clarkson offers a comprehensive assessment of Constable's oeuvre, from his earliest line drawings to his last masterpieces, including pencil drawings, quick outdoor oil sketches, painstakingly worked studio canvasses, and less well-known portraits.…
-
Contemporary World Interiors ENContemporary World Interiors is a thorough survey of the current state of international interior design, presenting some 450 projects around the world completed within the past 25 years. Organized into 11 chapters by building type, the book goes far beyond the traditional emphasis on residences and commercial spaces to include religious interiors, performance halls and cultural centers, civic spaces, restaurants,…
-
Alessandro Porcelli Cook It Raw ENCook it Raw tells the story of an exciting collection of avant garde chefs who come together to create unique dining experiences that explore and question social, cultural and environmental issues. Held initially in Copenhagen to mark the 2009 climate change summit the first ‘Raw’ dinner challenged the chefs to examine the issue of sustainability. As the events have developed so too have the issues, themes and…
-
Florian Böhm, Annahita Kamali Cookbook Book ENFeaturing 125 seminal cookbooks from the last 100 years, Cookbook Book is a celebration of the world's most beautiful, influential and informative cookbooks. From the tried-and-true classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking to The Astronaut’s Cookbook and Salvador Dalí’s remarkably original Les Diners de Gala, each of these cookbooks has shaped, influenced and/or revolutionized home cooking.
-
Zolghadr Tirdad, Chus Martinez, Catherine Wood Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture ENCreamier is an up-to-the-minute global survey of recent developments in contemporary art, with an emphasis on emerging artists. Each of the ten selected curators is known for his or her integrity and expertise in staging presentations of new art on an international level. Each curator selects ten important new artists who have either emerged internationally over the last five years or who are still relatively…
-
Babette de Roziéres Creole ENCreole is a sumptuous celebration of this unique and much-loved style of cooking. The heritage of French, Spanish and African settlers, Creole cookery takes the best of these cuisines and combines them with native American ingredients to produce a style of cooking that is rich in history and full of flavor. Containing over 160 recipes and including some of the most famous West Indian Creole dishes, from fish and…
-
Crucifixion ENThe tragic climax to the Gospel stories, the Crucifixion of Christ is the pivotal event of Christianity. In theological terms, it is God's sacrifice of Himself to redeem mankind; in human terms, it is the ultimate tragedy and a strikingly evocative symbol of suffering and human sacrifice. As Christianity's supreme image, the Crucifixion has been endlessly represented by artists throughout the centuries.
-
Madelaine Vázquez Gálvez, Imogene Tondre CubaA unique compilation of authentic home-cooking recipes from Cuba, reflecting the island's remarkable culinary diversityCuban food is known worldwide for its blend of bright colours and intense flavors, ...
-
Alex Atala D.O.M. END.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients is an exclusive look at one of the world’s most exciting chefs, his unique relationship with the produce of his native Brazil and the food he creates from it. Recently voted as number 4 in the San Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurant Awards, Alex Atala’s restaurant D.O.M has built its unique style of cuisine on the discovery and exploration of Brazilian ingredients combined with…
-
Carol Becker, Nico Daswani, Fumio Nanjo Daan RoosegaardeThe first monograph on the indefatigable explorer of relationships between people, technology, and environmental issues.
-
Rudolf Kuenzli Dada ENSubversive, irreverent and fiercely anti-authoritarian, Dada made the radical suggestion that anything could be art and anyone an artist. Emerging in the middle of the First World War, Dada writers and artists attempted to dismantle traditional values, norms and codes of communication and thus to deconstruct contemporary culture. They pioneered experiments in interventionist collage, assemblage, performance and the…
-
George Lois Damn Good Advice (for People With Talent!) ENDamn Good Advice (for people with talent!) is an inspirational guide to creativity and success. Presenting iconic lessons from America's 'Master Communicator', George Lois, this book is a bible of breakthrough thinking. A no-holds-barred, in your face compendium of lessons for a life lived to the fullest written for anyone looking to make a creative difference.
-
Paul Geerts Daniel Ost ENThe most comprehensive monograph available on the internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer Daniel Ost. His masterful site-specific sculptures redefine the boundaries of art, design, and floral arrangement. Ost has created exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples, international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. Presents 80 of his most important projects while…
-
Design Book ENA 'design classic' is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date. The objects in this book - all of which are still in production today - are presented chronologically: each on a single page with a large image and a concise caption, written by one of over fifty experts in the field of…
-
Kimberlie Birks Design for ChildrenA comprehensive, genre-defining survey of children's product and furniture design from Bauhaus to today Design for Children, a must-have book for all style-conscious and design-savvy readers, documents the evolution of design for babies, toddlers, ...
-
Justin McGuirk Designed in California ENThis book examines California’s enormous impact on contemporary design, from the counterculture of the 1960s to the tech culture of Silicon Valley. On a more expansive level, California: Designing Freedom explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation – from LSD to surfboards and iPhones. This ambitious survey brings together political posters and portable devices, but also looks beyond…
-
Moscow Design Museum Designed in the USSRA fascinating glimpse into design behind the Iron Curtain, revealed through the products and graphics of everyday Soviet life This captivating survey of Soviet design from 1950 to 1989 features more than 350 items from the Moscow Design Museum's unique co