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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...

Inside the Mind of Jamie Hewlett. The artist’s first major monograph, now in an updated edition This special edition updates Jamie Hewlett’s first-ever monograph with around 30 brand new pieces. Through stories, characte...

Je t’aime...moi non plus. The Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg family album The highly public love affair of French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg and British actress Jane Birkin captured the hearts and imaginations of a generation. The ...

Timeless Beauty. Land of the Rising Sun at the Turn of the Century The Golden Age of Travel neatly overlaps with the reign of the Emperor Meiji, which began in 1868 with the overthrow of a feudal order that had kept Japan secluded from the outside...

Tradition meets modernity in an ancient land Fans of Japanese culture and aesthetics will revel in this inspirational book packed cover-to-cover with full page color photos of a wide range of homes and buildings across the islands of Japan, from tra...

Beyond Kurosawa Exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers Until recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very narrow prism. For years, Westerners interested in Japanese film had to content themselves with the ...