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Vinyl mania. Jazz LP covers from the 1940s to 1990s This volume features a broad selection of jazz record covers, from the 1940s through the decline of LP production in the early 1990s. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing performer a...

Vinyl mania. The greatest in Jazz LP art Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of Jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the mo...

Swinging Gotham. Big City, big bands: New York’s jazz scene of the 1920s It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong...

Anatomically correct. An unsurpassed treatise of the human body Discover one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published. The product of more than two decades of dedication, and spanning descriptive, s...

Nouvel by Nouvel. France's premier architect designs his own monograph The work of France's internationally celebrated contemporary architect - and recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize - in a book designed by the master himselfю Jean No...

Recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel is, without any doubt, France’s most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant of the influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, then crea...

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) was, like his father Auguste, a virtuoso in his field. From early films such as La Fille de l`Eau and La Chienne through later masterpieces like Rules of the Game and The Grand Illusion (widely considered to be two of the grea...

The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with New York in the 1980s, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag name SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city. He appear...

“I have been searching for time past all my life.” - Jeanloup Sieff In this unique monograph, Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) retraces in word and image the course of forty years of photographs, encounters, and memories. Divided into four chap...

In this unique monograph, Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) retraces in words and images the course of 40 years of photographs, encounters, and memories. Divided into four chapters, from the 50s to the 90s, the book brings together the major photographs of ...

Which living artists keep their price? Who will be regarded as an investment 30 years from now? Both limited edition artist monographs of this book sold out in months, attaining instant investment status. Here comes the unlimited popular edition! T...

The Art Edition, limited to 100 copies, each with an original artwork by Jeff Koons. From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons’s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s with his unapo...

The Objects of Youthful Desire. Playthings From the Past For the Present Up until the 20th century, children’s play was not a subject that demanded much attention. While objects that entertained children have been present from ancient histor...

Raised on the blues, James Marshall Hendrix exploded onto the international stage in 1967 fronting the Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. The world had seen nothing like him before: a wild-haired, blues-rocking, singer-songwriter whose virtuoso psychedeli...

Director of nearly 150 feature films and winner of six Oscars, John Ford (1895-1973) was the quintessential American filmmaker. Ford produced an unparalleled body of work that includes such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, St...