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Holy temples to posh hotels: exceptional interiors from Indonesia to Japan Zen. Soothing. Mystical. Meditative. All the most serene words in the world couldn’t begin to describe the effect of Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it...

Haute cuisine comes home. Europe’s most creative chefs reveal their inner sanctum Ours is the era of the celebrity chef. Like never before, we’re fascinated by fine food and the personalities who create it. Newspapers follow the antics...

Described by Christopher Columbus as “the loveliest land ever beheld by human eyes,” Cuba’s sumptuous landscapes are marked by sun-drenched tobacco and sugar cane fields and its cities ripe with music, dancing, and jubilation. Celeb...

Come On In! A tour of contemporary home decor around the world Flea-market romance or space-age bachelor pad, minimalist or neo-baroque; whatever your style, you’ll find your fit of fresh, provocative interior design inspiration in...

International Showdown Breathtaking interiors and décor from Amsterdam to Xi An The first volume of Angelika Taschen's new series on contemporary interiors features the world's most amazing, exquisite, and interesting apartments and houses – from A...

Come on in! Tour of contemporary home decors around the world The Interiors Now! series features the world's most amazing, exquisite, and interesting contemporary apartments and houses. With an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, h...

Creative living Interiors that define how the smart set wants to live — NOW A successful home is the perfect synthesis of personality and zeitgeist; it is a living work of art, a cultural artifact, and the object of ceaseless curiosity. H...

"Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree - it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots." Thus Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on the radical departures of the 20th century. In the 193...

The delicate splendour and fairytale beauty of Islamic art The art which arose from the 7th century in the Islamic empires reached from Spain and Morocco to the borders of China. It bore the stamp above all of Arabs, Persians and Turks, but outsta...

In 1983, Japanese designer Issey Miyake told The New Yorker that he aspired “to forge ahead, to break the mould. ” With the boundary-defying fashion lines that followed, he not only broke moulds but recast clothing altogether. With a u...

Jack Nicholson was over thirty, and more than a decade into his acting career, when Easy Rider finally made him a star. His reputation as a rebellious anti-hero was furthered by three notorious confrontations in films of the 1970s: Five Easy Pieces, ...

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up images of the drip pain...

James Bidgood is seen as the father of the pulp and glamour aesthetic, yet his photographic works are still scarcely known. He came to New York in 1951, intent on becoming a musical star, and earned his first wages as a drag performer in Manhattan’s ...

James Dean died at the age of 24, yet half a century later his mystique is unfaded. Had luck favored him that fatal evening, he might still be with us, an actor in the same generation as Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Sean Connery. Hi...

Inside the Mind of Jamie Hewlett. 25 years of works, from Gorillaz to The Suggestionists From Tank Girl to art-pop phenomenon Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett is one of the most energetic pop culture figures of the past 20 years. Gathering more than 400 of...