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Form Meets Function. The industrial designs that shape our lives If you take even the slightest interest in the design of your toothbrush, the history behind your washing machine, or the evolution of the telephone, you’ll take an even greate...

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 a...

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

The Power of Lo—TEK. A global exploration of nature-based technology Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and ra...

Abstract Beginnings. A pivotal portfolio in the history of art Throughout his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky transformed not only his own practice, but the course of art history itself. This essential guide traces Kandinsky’s rich repert...

Floral Buildings. Art Nouveau marvels across Europe With a meticulous sensibility for light and detail, the late Keiichi Tahara captured Europe’s finest Art Nouveau architecture. This exquisite three-volume set features more than 500 of his ...

The Boy King’s Journey through the Underworld. Tutankhamun’s royal voyage into paradise, as told by ancient Egyptian treasures Since the ’90s, Sandro Vannini has created complete photographic reproductions that reveal murals and ...

Art inflation. The king of blow-ups, puppies, and pop The creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) are at once immediately accessible and eloquently art historical. From basketball tanks to flower puppies, his instantly recognizable work frolics with b...

Enigmatic and ambiguous in its role as both setting and subject, the landscape has been one of the most important genres in painting for centuries. This dedicated survey spans the late Middle Ages to modern times to bring the evolution of the landsca...

Building the future. The man with a modern mission Even in his unrealised projects, Le Corbusier redefined modern living, synthesising functionalism, expressionism, and expansive urban thinking from Switzerland to Chandigarh, India. This book prov...

The deftness of da Vinci. The drawings of Art History's master genius One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world’s most famous paintings...

The Popstar: When art went Whaam! American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary for a new era...

The Instant Art of Linda McCartney. Unseen Polaroids of family life and beyond Following her best-selling TASCHEN monograph Life in Photographs, discover a more intimate and highly personal side of Linda McCartney’s photograph...

Rising-Sun Retreats. Today’s most exceptional abodes in Asia Traditional architecture meets cutting-edge design in this compact showcase of Asian living. Travelling across Tibet, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Si...

Poem of Colors. The most remarkable abodes from Costa Careyes to the Yucatán Peninsula South of the border, rich colors and woven textiles form a unique design aesthetic, crafted by the union of local Aztec and Mayan cultures and&...