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The feminine world. The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt’s ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna’s upper-middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century — a society devoted to the cul...

Gold, flowers, and female beauty. The work of the decadent Austrian symbolist The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he wo...

Curate your home: Print Set Klimt This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most...

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case Study House #22 set on its eagle’s-nest site high above the lights of Los Angeles. With his two innovative houses for the famous project of the Arts a...

Koolhaas’s Countryside. An urgent exploration of a long-neglected realm and its sublime beauty From animals to robotization, climate change to migration, Rem Koolhaas presents a new collaborative project exploring how countryside everywhere ...

Koolhaas’s Countryside. An urgent exploration of a long-neglected realm and its sublime beauty The rural, remote, and wild territories we call “countryside”, or the 98% of the earth’s surface not occupied by cities, ma...

Vlastimil Kula’s photographs are mysterious and defiantly sexy. Frustrated by what he calls the “boredom of pornography” and the mechanical depiction of sex, Kula aims to distance himself from traditional genres by exploring uncharted territory and p...

The Complete Kengo Kuma. Erasing architecture: a definitive survey of the architect’s oeuvre Famous First Edition: First printing of 5,000 numbered copies After Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, and Fumihiko Maki, Kengo Kuma has breath...

The iron colossus: the construction of the Eiffel Tower in XXL-sized drawings and photographs When it was completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was the highest structure in the world, measuring 300 meters (984 feet). Built for the World’s Fair, i...

LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the long-awaited third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Packed with astonishing, color-saturated, and provocative images, th...

The Fellini of photography. Life on Planet LaChapelle "The only link between Andy Warhol and J-Lo." - GQ, London on David LaChapelle LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle L...

In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America, or in the moor...

Architecture outside the box. Designing the great outdoors One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is landscape architecture. No matter what the architectural style of the moment, the green areas around houses, stadiums or corporate headqu...

The landscape from Renaissance to Pop The landscape has been, for many centuries, one of the most important genres in painting. This book examines the landscape from the late Middle Ages to modern times, comprising a synopsis of the genre and cove...

Comprised of 20 countries located in North, South, and Central America as well as the Caribbean Islands, Latin America is populated by over 500 million people. From Argentina to Mexico, all Latin American countries are Spanish-speaking with the excep...