The Language of Home offers a unique glimpse into the creative partnership of Will Meyer and Gray Davis, cofounders of the globally recognised architecture and design firm known for shaping award-winning residential and hospitality spaces. This curated selection of Meyer Davis’s residential projects spans city penthouses, lakeside retreats, coastal sanctuaries, a Mexican villa, and a luxury yacht—each one reflecting intimacy, elegance, and individuality. The narrative explores the art of design, the joy of collaboration, and the ways personal context shapes the work. As each project unfolds, readers are invited into the world of Meyer Davis, where bold gestures are tempered by careful refinement, revealing a rhythm inherent to the practice: layered, collaborative, and alive. Richly illustrated with photography, sketches, and material boards, The Language of Home is both a showcase of design excellence and an inside perspective into the work of two of today’s most influential voices in contemporary architecture.

Published on the occasion of Karin Kneffel’s exhibition Haymatlos at Dirimart (13 November 2020–17 January 2021), this trilingual catalogue explores themes of memory, displacement, and belonging. The 19 paintings on view establish a dialogue between Germany and Turkey through the notion of heimatlos—statelessness—probing how the past is recalled, altered, or transformed, leaving ambiguous traces in the present. Kneffel engages with the legacies of three exiled figures who lived in Istanbul: architect Bruno Taut, sculptor Rudolf Belling, and designer Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Their iconic works—the Bosphorus house designed by Taut, Belling’s İnönü sculpture and Skulptur 49, and Schütte-Lihotzky’s pioneering Frankfurter Küche—reappear under Kneffel’s painterly veil of drops, bubbles, and brushstrokes, questioning whether the world is ever truly familiar. Enriched with an essay by Julia Voss, along with studio and installation views, the catalogue situates Haymatlos within Kneffel’s broader practice and her celebrated retrospective STILL in Germany.

Text in English and Turkish and German.

DRIVEN: The Road to Iconic Design invites readers into the world of award-winning classical architect Patrick Ahearn, FAIA, where automotive artistry intersects with timeless architectural design. In DRIVEN, his third published volume, Ahearn shares his ambitious pursuit of the extraordinary with a focus on bespoke carriage houses featured in so many of his legacy properties and classic cars that have shaped his design purview throughout his career.
Whether freestanding or seamlessly connected to the main residence, these exquisitely crafted carriage houses are tailored to their owners’ lives and dreams. Not just home to prized automobiles, they offer everything from gracious guest quarters to collector’s galleries, angler’s lounges, poolside retreats and elegant entertaining spaces. Through ten inspiring projects, Ahearn reveals how these architectural gems elevate both the form and function of a property. Interwoven throughout are classic automobiles that have impacted Ahearn’s life, each photographed against the backdrop of one of his homes, creating a dialogue between enduring forms of excellence. 

With captivating photography and thoughtful narrative, DRIVEN will inspire architecture enthusiasts, car aficionados, and design connoisseurs alike with a celebration of historically inspired architecture, classic automobiles, and Ahearn’s lifelong journey towards iconic design. 

Party Wall Common confronts the concept of ownership, as well as the challenges pertaining to our disconnection from one another and our environment, by exploring the legal and spatial conversion of party walls typical of row house typology into a common ground. In such a common ground, neither the public nor the private “governs”; rather, a multitude of interactions generated by a collective body embracing a field of changing configurations, by which the duality of “I” versus “THEY” is permeated by a third entity: the “WE”.

The notion of “we” is understood here as the legal and spatial materialisation of a common ground unfolding via a party wall, in which a collective embraces a generative form of ownership that embraces social equity and care for one another, while sharing both material and immaterial resources by means of inhabiting Party Wall Common. 

The publication States of Uncertain Domesticities documents and reflects on the performance-centered exhibition by the same name, which was shown at Haus Kunst Mitte Berlin. The building itself—a construction originally designed as a residential building which is now used as an exhibition venue—provided the starting point for the artistic interventions. Through performances and installation-based interventions, the curatorial team reactivated the original character of the house. In reference to the seminal feminist project Woman House (1972), the domestic space was interpreted as a political arena within which social tensions are revealed. Forty-four international contemporary artists explored questions relating to housing, care work, violence, migration, and gentrification through various installations, performances, and media artworks. This publication transfers the spatial and physical experiences into the temporality of the book, inviting readers to engage more deeply with these themes. 

Artists: Adidal Abou-Chamat, Liz Bachhuber, Ina Bierstedt, Frauke Boggasch, Christian Borchert, Benhard Bormann, Bella Bram, Nakeya Brown, Libia Castro / Ólafur Ólafsson, Kathryn Cornelius, Alba D’Urbano / Tina Bara, Johanna Demetrakas, Milena Dopitová, Judith Miriam Escherlor, Maria Ezcurra, Kerstin Flake, Gluklya, Markéta Hlinovská, Fumi Kato, Daniela Krajčová, Elli KURUŞ, Via Lewandowsky, Loredana Longo, Susanne Lorenz, Tina Mamczur, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Isa Melsheimer, Cornelia Friederike, Müller Jill, Luise Müßig, Linda Perthen, Cesare Pietroiusti, Chloé Piot, Inken Reinert, Dana Sahánková, Corinna Schnitt, Selma Selman, Jakub Šimčik, Barbora Šimková, Molly Soda, Nanae Suzuki, Fede Taus, Petra Trenkel, Andreas Ullrich, Anna Witt Performances: Stefan Hurtig, Melina Matzanke, Ping Qiu, Nika Radic / Georg Spehr Film programme: Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Paola Cortellesi.

Text in English and German.

What is the secret to architecture that feels truly comfortable? Architecture of Life is the first essay collection distilling three decades of groundbreaking work from the architectural duo behind the iconic Fuji Kindergarten and Roof House. Moving beyond mere blueprints, this book explores a radical philosophy: buildings are not static objects, but dynamic organisms that breathe, weather, and evolve. The authors challenge the modern obsession with sterile, climate-controlled isolation, proposing instead a return to creating “architecture of life”. Through world-renowned projects, they demonstrate how environments can foster freedom, dignity, and joy. Drawing on “open monism” and Zen concepts like ensō, these essays reveal how architecture can bridge the gap between humans and ecosystems and how the authors create “generative fields” where life can truly unfold by embracing risk and nature. Part personal narrative and part philosophical meditation, this book is an essential call to rethink our built environment as an act of trust—reminding us that the most meaningful spaces are those that allow us to feel the world again.

John Russell Pope is one of America’s most famous architects, responsible for many major works, including the Jefferson Memorial, the House of the Temple and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art. Made in association with the ICAA (the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art), The Architecture of John Russell Pope, Selected Works: Public Buildings is the second volume of a two-part monograph. Following the first volume, which featured Pope’s highly much-admired houses, this second volume covers his public buildings, which include some of the most important civic structures in America, such as the memorial enclosing Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin in Kentucky, Constitution Hall in Washington DC, and the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University. Originally published during the 1920s, Pope’s exquisite floorplans and sketches accompany period photographs and the original commentary by art historian and traditionalist Royal Cortissoz to create a comprehensive and visually stunning account of a true titan of American design. 

Architecture carries memory. It preserves the character of a place while allowing it to evolve for contemporary life. Modern Heritage Homes explores this relationship through a collection of residences that balance history, craftsmanship, and modern living with remarkable sensitivity.
Across these pages, twenty-three homes reveal how designers and architects around the world reinterpret heritage in ways that feel both grounded and current. Some projects draw directly from traditional vernacular forms, while others reinterpret the spirit of modernism through proportion, material, and atmosphere. Together they show that timeless design is shaped by continuity, not imitation. From the quiet elegance of South Dublin Residence to the sculptural clarity of Melody House in the Southern Highlands of Australia, each project demonstrates a strong connection between architecture and landscape. In South Dublin, lime plaster walls, timber beams, and stone floors create a home rooted in tradition, softened for contemporary family life. In Melody House, inspired by Richard Neutra’s modernism, clean horizontal lines and expansive glazing create a dialogue between architecture, music, and nature.
In South Africa, An Arts and Crafts Home celebrates craftsmanship and vernacular character through textured materials, layered interiors, and a close relationship with its setting. In Texas, Arrowhead rises above Lake Travis as a retreat inspired by Mediterranean light and romantic spatial sequences, combining openness with intimacy. The California projects bring another dimension to the collection. Brentwood Park Residence and Cole Valley Classic reflect a refined West Coast sensibility where warmth, restraint, and natural textures create deeply personal spaces. In Nantucket, a coastal residence is reimagined with softened palettes and a renewed connection to the Atlantic horizon, proving how even familiar typologies can feel entirely new.
Further into the book, homes such as A Thatched-Roof Villa in the Netherlands and Four Seasons R01 in Istanbul reveal how regional traditions can be translated through a modern lens. Whether through the enduring silhouette of a thatched roof or the quiet precision of contemporary detailing, these homes demonstrate the richness of local identity. What connects all of these projects is a shared respect for permanence, craftsmanship, and emotional resonance. These are homes designed not only to be seen, but to be lived in, adapted, and passed on. They remind us that heritage is not fixed. It is continually shaped by the people who inhabit it. Modern Heritage Homes is an invitation to explore that ongoing dialogue between past and present, and to discover how thoughtful design can create homes of lasting beauty.

Welcome to Mallorca — the island of stone houses, olive terraces, and dreamlike coves. After exploring the Mediterranean region and the Alps, this book now takes its readers to the beloved island and looks more closely: to the Serra de Tramuntana, where fincas nestle into steep hillsides and the scent of wild rosemary drifts across olive terraces; to the quiet interior, between almond blossom and vineyards; and to the calas of the east, where warm Marès stone meets turquoise water.

This book brings together a curated selection of exceptional holiday homes that rank among the island’s most beautiful retreats — from restored country estates with centuries-old masonry to pared-back architectural houses overlooking the sea. Each home embodies its own interpretation of Mallorcan hospitality. And beyond the house portraits, the hosts also share their personal tips for the surrounding area: small village taverns, hidden bathing coves, pottery workshops, and wineries one might otherwise never have discovered.

Ceramic art is one of Uzbekistan’s oldest and most renowned forms of applied art, which in 2023 was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Through engaging accounts of the work of current ceramists from across the country and beautiful new photography of these artists and their finest work, Born in the Clay introduces this fascinating subject to new audiences across the world. Authors Rolando Montecalvo and Dinara Dultaeva take readers on a cultural tour – beginning in the capital, Tashkent, and ranging across the Fergana Valley, Bukhara, Khorezm, Samarkand and Andijan – and present an enlightening and accessible account of the history and techniques of Uzbek ceramics. Born in the Clay is the definitive guide to this uniquely vibrant and distinctive artistic tradition.  

Boucheron: Secret Archives tells the true story of Maison Boucheron, the oldest jeweller on Place Vendôme. Fifteen years after the first publication, new documents and photographs discovered in the Boucheron archives and private collections have allowed jewellery historian Vincent Meylan to reveal more remarkable discoveries about the history of this great Parisian jewellery house, bringing the glittering world of diamonds and pearls, intrigue and power to life.

From ‘Ladies of Sin’ to the ‘Kings and Queens of the World’, the Maison’s extraordinary, colourful clientèle included La Païva, The Countess of Castiglione, Tsar Nicholas II, the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales, Lord Mountbatten and the Duke of Kent, the Vanderbilts, the Rothschilds, Sarah Bernhardt, Rita Hayworth, the Aga Khan, the Iranian and Egyptian royal families and more. For over a century-and-a-half, Boucheron has fashioned some of the most exquisite jewellery, from Margaret Greville’s fabulous treasure left to the Queen Mother to the spectacular emerald necklaces created for the Maharajah of Patiala.

Featuring over 300 illustrations and documents, these pages include newly discovered original design sketches, black-and-white archive images and sumptuous colour photographs of Boucheron’s exquisite creations.

Hailing Frequencies Open is the first major publication dedicated to Sonya Dyer’s acclaimed body of work exploring the intersections of Black history, science, speculative fiction and space exploration. Across moving image, sculpture and installation, Dyer reimagines who gets to shape the future, placing Black women at the centre of narratives that have historically excluded them. Drawing together the extraordinary stories of Henrietta Lacks, Nichelle Nichols’ pioneering work with NASA, and the mythological figure of Andromeda, Dyer constructs powerful speculative worlds where science, social justice and imagination converge. Her work challenges inherited histories of race, gender and scientific discovery while proposing new futures built on care, possibility and collective imagination.

Published to accompany a landmark series of exhibitions, including presentations at Somerset House, the book brings together new essays, installation views and artworks spanning the evolution of Hailing Frequencies Open. It establishes Sonya Dyer as one of the most original voices in contemporary British art, demonstrating how speculative fiction can become a powerful tool for rethinking history and imagining more inclusive futures.

Weaving Modernities traces a century and a half of French tapestry history, from the founding of the Pinton manufacture in Felletin in 1867 to the present day. The book shows how this artisanal craft moved through the major turning points of the 20th century, from the decorator-designers of the 1920s through the postwar years to its contemporary revival.

Artists follow one another across the decades: Lurçat, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Frank Stella and Joseph Albers, through to Claire Tabouret, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Beatriz Milhazes, Glenn Brown and Louise Bonnet today. A chapter by Barbara Jeauffroy-Mairet also tells a more unexpected side of this history: milliner Claude Saint Cyr, who in the 1950s applied Aubusson tapestry to hats, coats and shoes. The book also revisits the major commissions that brought the manufacture international renown: the immense Christ in Majesty woven for Coventry Cathedral, the monumental Vardanank for the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, and the curtains of the Sydney Opera House.

Richly illustrated with tapestries, unpublished archives and artists’ cartoons, the book also features two voices: artist Jean-Luc Moulène and Jacques Bourdeix, cartoonist and colourist at Pinton since 1970.

Text in English and French.

“There have been volumes written on and by Terence Conran and Mary Quant, but this is the first time they have been placed together in a book. And it works.” – Colin McDowell, The Times “It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there have been three: Chanel, Dior and Mary Quant.” – Ernestine Carter. Transporting you back to London at the height of the Swinging Sixties, this book provides vital context for two of the biggest and boldest names in ‘Pop’ fashion: Mary Quant, alleged mother of the miniskirt, and Terence Conran, the entrepreneur behind the new wave of ‘lifestyle’ stores. Friends, associates and allies in design, Quant and Conran stood at the head of an informal but influential bohemian group who steered the rudder of style during the Pop era. ‘The Chelsea Set’ resist definition; there was no comprehensive members list. Conran/Quant: Swinging London – A Lifestyle Revolution explores the contributions of designers and artists from Laura and Bernard Ashley to Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigen Henderson and Alexander Plunket Greene, all of whom were essential generators of Sixties Style.

With his residential buildings, office blocks, schools and factories, Boris Velikovsky (1878-1937) made a definitive contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture. His early constructions, such as Gribov House in Moscow, are still very much bound to Russian Neoclassicism, yet since the Revolution of 1917, he increasingly designed Constructivist architecture. One example is his Gostorg Management Building, distinguished by glass facades, the functional division of space and use of state-of-the-art materials. Furthermore in the garden city of Druzhba for instance, Velikovsky intensively engaged with new ideas in town planning. With mostly hitherto unpublished technical plans as well as numerous historical and new colour photographs of his most famous projects, Boris Velikowsky’s contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture is appreciated for the first time in book form.

Sculptor Claus Bury (b. 1946) has been enhancing public spaces in Germany for more than four decades with his monumental sculptures, which by now total more than 100. His canon of forms is comprised of geometric basic corpuses, such as squares and cubes, triangles and pyramids, rectangles, rhombuses and segments, which he employs in a contemporary Archaic style oriented on the antique structures of Egypt, Greece and Mexico. Bury’s sculptures are almost always accessible, and the contingent changes in perspective do not only thematise the basic requirements of the human experience of form and space; they also articulate people’s experience in their surroundings, impressively underpinning Hegel’s theory that the world has a ‘house character’ and that man is fundamentally a domestic creature. A spectacular review of Claus Bury’s monumental works in ships, gates, houses, arches, bridges and temples.

Text in English and German.

The Swiss artist David Bielander (b.1968) is one of the most significant proponents of contemporary art jewellery in the world. With him, nothing is what it seems: corrugated cardboard is actually silver or gold, Wiener sausages are a chair in a coffee house, shapely lips are made of rubber… This ambiguity distinguishes his work as much as his exceptional knowledge of materials and artisanal skill. Created with the support of Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, David Bielander offers the first, comprehensive review of this multi-award-winning artist, who with his conceptual reflection and power of imagination creates works full of wit and sensuality. With essays by: Gijs Bakker, Maria Cristina Bergesio, Rutger Emmelkamp, Karl Fritsch, Toni Greenbaum, Florian Hufnagl, Bernhard Schobinger, Marjan Unger, Jorunn Veiteberg et al. Exhibition: mudac – Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne (CH), 8. 2. – 30. 4. 2017 Text in English, French and German.

Fotosommer Stuttgart, the now internationally established forum for contemporary photography began eight years ago as an exhibition project organised by committed photographers. As the largest festival in the German southwest of national and international renown it provides a survey of the current international photo scene as well as of regional tendencies. The festival’s award show encompasses a broad spectrum of works, ranging from artistic to documentary photography. From over 500 submissions for the international competition the jury chose the works of 31 photographers, including the three prize winners of the Süd-westbank Fotosommer awards. The exhibition series Fokus 0711 will display, under this year’s motto “Cult”, 24 different artistic positions that highlight the high quality and variety of photographic art in and around Stuttgart.

Text in English & German.

Painting and graphic prints are the preferred mediums of the Norwegian artist Hanne Borchgrevink (b.1951), who over the course of time has focused her attention on the house as the leitmotif of her work. She reduces it to its elemental forms, which forever encounter new constellations. At the intersection of figuration and abstraction, of the verbal and non-verbal, the artist explores in her reduced language of forms colour, surface and perception in a methodical and analytical way. Borchgrevink has long occupied a prominent position in the contemporary art of Norway, for in the repetition of her painterly and motivic vocabulary she always manages to find ever new and surprising as well as provocative answers.

Text in English and Norwegian.

The publication for the 18th Silver Triennial documents the results of the international competition for current trends in the silver scene announced by the Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. and the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau. Renowned silversmiths and metal designers who are active across the globe as well as up-and-coming artists present their ideas for pitchers, bowls, tumblers, cutlery, candelabras and accessories. A top-class jury Paul Derrez, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam; Dr Wolfgang Schepers, retired director of the Museum August Kestner, Hanover; and Bruno Sievering-Tornow, master silver- and goldsmith, and specialist teacher at the Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau selects the best of the best from 2016.

Text in English and German.