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Geometrical figures and hieroglyphic elements The delightfully unclassifiable work of a master painter Designated as "degenerate" by the Nazis, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is today considered one of the most important artists of the 20th ce...

Thinking eye. A unique language of symbols, literature, and light  With careful theories and many thousands of paintings, drawings, and watercolours, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is considered one of the most cerebral and prolific leaders of 20th-ce...

"A new world calls for a new man" In the mid-Fifties, Yves Klein (1928-1962) conquered the world of art, declaring that "a new world calls for a new man". His idiosyncratic style and huge charisma set him on a youthful career i...

Gustav Klimt’s art is thoroughly fin de siècle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna’s upper-middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstati...

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...