In the 1910s and 1920s the unique landscape of the chalk downs of southern England began to exert a new fascination on writers, historians, archaeologists and artists. Modernists such as Paul and John Nash, Eric Ravilious and William Nicholson immersed themselves in exploring these enigmatic, ancient places. The stark, rolling forms of the downs suited the modern aesthetic, offering a place where prehistory and modernity could converge.
With the growing political tensions of the 1930s, this modern engagement with ancient landscape took on a symbolism that still resonates. Images of Britain evolved as the downs became both symbols of wartime vulnerability and resilience and the site of machine gun emplacements and crashed aeroplanes.
Art of the Chalk Downs investigates this extraordinary collision of ancient and modern, idea and place, and the network of artists who worked and lived there. Seventy-five plates of paintings, watercolors, prints and photographs are accompanied by texts written by leading art historians James Russell and Stephens.
“Do come in as often as you like – the place is only alive when used” – Jim Ede
Take a room-by-room journey through the Kettle’s Yard house in Cambridge (UK), former residence of curator and ‘friend to artists’ Jim Ede and his wife Helen. Home to their substantial collection of 20th century art, furniture, ceramics, glass and natural objects, the house remains open for visitors to experience as the Ede’s intended: art as a way of life.
The carefully curated interior spaces in the original converted cottages (1957) and Leslie Martin-designed extension (1970) are a masterclass in balance and restraint, appealing to aesthetes across the spectrum of art and design from fine art to fashion; interior designers, architects and art historians.
Richly illustrated with new photography by Gilbert McCarragher and inspired by classic mid-century guidebooks, this book will catch the eye of long-time fans of Kettle’s Yard as much as those discovering the house for the very first time. A companion publication Kettle’s Yard Art & Artists ISBN 9781904561620 is also available.
This elegantly designed book features works by pioneering British photographer Garry Fabian Miller (b. 1957, Bristol) in dialog with one of his key artistic influences, Samuel Palmer (1805-81). Since the mid-1980s, Miller has created photographs without a camera to explore the possibilities of light as both medium and subject. Experimenting with photographic materials and exposure time, his photographs feature intensely saturated colors, not seen before in conventional photography. For this book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Miller has chosen works on paper by Palmer from the Ashmolean’s rarely displayed collections to juxtapose them with his own images. Miller compares Palmer’s pioneering use of materials with his own practice, pushing the limits of photography in the dark room. Edited by Dr Lena Fritsch, this book features high quality images and new texts by Sean Borodale, Fritsch, Alexandra Harris, Colin Harrison, Lydia Heeley, and Marina Warner.
This book offers a structured exploration of the work of American artist Daniel Brush (1947–2022), a polymath who was simultaneously a painter, sculptor, poet-goldsmith, and jeweler. His lifelong quest to transmit light through line was deeply inspired by Claude Monet’s painterly depictions of light. Carly Lapidus’s exclusive photographs of Brush’s New York studio document how his life and creations were intimately intertwined. Finally, photographs by Benjamin Chelly bring us even closer to his art, alternating between macroscopic and microscopic perspectives.
This unique visual journey is a tribute to one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century.
The Francis Bacon Collection is the result of an extraordinarily lengthy discovery and authentication process of previously unpublished works by Francis Bacon. This stunning volume includes the nearly 700 drawings, pastels, and collages in possession of Italian journalist Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino. All the works have been photographed in ultra-high gigapixel, captured exclusively for the book. Commentaries and essays especially written for this edition are by noted art historians Edward Lucie-Smith and Fernando Casto Florez, together with an authentication report by Ambra Draghetti, the graphological consultant to the Court of Bologna for the authentication process. This elegantly produced edition presents new scholarship by Professor Umberto Guarini, who defended the legal authentication of the works at the Court of Bologna; Dino Cura, the President of The Francis Bacon Collection; and by Professor Maurizio Saracini, who pioneered the use of multi-spectrum diagnostic imaging and applied his technique to the drawings providing fascinating new details for the first time.
Text in English and Italian.
Porsche Rebels: Legends Reborn as Restomods presents the best of the best from the exciting world of reimagined and customized Porsches. Showcasing 28 elite brands with over 60 models, and premium photography, this timely volume reveals one of the most dynamic trends in the global automotive industry.
The restomod boom represents a cultural shift to bespoke automotive artistry. Fusing classic models with cutting-edge technology requires an almost impossible level of creativity and workmanship. The resulting builds are configured to shine as brightly on today’s roads as the original models did in their own time, frequently testing every technical limit imaginable.
As refined as the machines themselves, this definitive roll call of restomods is perfect for petrol-heads, Porsche enthusiasts and every other ilk of car lover.
Featuring the world’s most accomplished carmakers, including Singer, Tuthill, Rennsport, Gunther Werks and RWB, this superb second volume in the visually stunning Cars Reimagined series is guaranteed to fire up the hearts of motor enthusiasts everywhere.
Praise for Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars:
“Bill Schwartz’s well-researched [book] is a fascinating who’s who of the industry, filled with 55 of the scene’s biggest movers and shakers – you’ll know your Revology from your Zero Labs in no time.” – Classic & Sports Car
“A fascinating look at the new levels of craft and technology that have emerged to cater to the world of luxury mobility.” – Wallpaper
“Curated by Bill Schwartz, it’s the kind of book that fuels big dreams and garage goals.” – Boss Hunting
Mick De Giulio is an American designer and author celebrated for his influential kitchen interiors and product design. Extending beyond the scope of his previous books, Mick De Giulio: Kitchen First presents the designer’s evolving body of work, revealing how his forward-thinking, holistic approach to design shapes more artful interiors throughout the home. At the core of the book is De Giulio’s belief that in today’s home, the kitchen holds the highest position in the design hierarchy—offering rich opportunities for innovation and often driving the design for the entire residence. With an intimate look at twelve of his standout projects, the book reveals each space through finely detailed, close-up photography and expansive, full-scale views. Concise, insightful text explores De Giulio’s design process while highlighting the techniques that define his signature approach.
For more than 4,500 years people have been drawn to a windswept plain at the heart of southern England where a circle of vast upright stones topped with massive lintels stands. Yet Stonehenge – probably the most famous prehistoric monument in the world – remains mysterious.
Today, nearly one and a half million people a year come from across the world to see for themselves this silent icon of the ancient past. But what do we really know about the people who built it, why they did so, and what they did here among the stones? In the 18th century stories of Druids, of sacrifices and pagan worship emerged in the silence. How has our understanding of this complex site changed since then?
Through spectacular new photography, historic images, artworks and a remarkable new reconstruction drawing, Susan Greaney tells the story of Stonehenge, its builders and the people whose lives have been touched by this awe-inspiring monument from earliest times to the present day.
The Mediterranean coast of France witnessed the rise and development of modern art over a century, from Cézanne in the 1860s to Matisse, Picasso and Klein in the 1950s and 1960s. These artists and the many more featured here discovered an inexhaustible source of inspiration in this storied region, whose glittering, languid sea stretches out towards the far horizon beneath brilliant azure skies. Indelibly associated with the classical past, this magical land of eternal spring and spiritual renewal came to signify a state of mind, and avant-garde artists sought to convey the vitality and élan it inspired in them through new paradigms of modernist invention.
Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island honors the life and legacy of the house that Jay Phipps built to woo his English love, Dita Grace. In his efforts to secure her hand in marriage, he promised to recreate the world of elegance, gardens, and dogs that she had known in Sussex. She said “Yes”—and the rest is Westbury.
Designed in 1906 by English connoisseur and family friend George Crawley, the house was furnished with British antiques and craftsmanship, with gardens planted under Dita’s discerning eye. Of the hundreds of mansions built on Long Island around the turn of the twentieth century, Old Westbury Gardens is now unique—the only one preserved in its original condition.
In 1959, Peggie Phipps Boegner generously placed Old Westbury Gardens in trust, in memory of her mother, Dita, so that the public could enjoy the place where she herself had been so happy. Maintained to the highest standards of authenticity, it is now a showcase of architecture, horticulture, and the decorative arts.
The world as we know it is on its last legs; the old order is faltering. In these uncertain times, it’s tempting to lose faith in the future. But what if this is precisely the beginning of something new? F*ck the System, and Other Bad Ideas for the Future unravels the chaotic forces behind the geopolitical scenes and asks a fundamental question: can Europe emerge as a strong player in the emerging world order? What do we need to build a Europe that is sovereign, resilient, and radically innovative? This is a manifesto to understand the present and imagine the future—provocative, sharp, and unorthodox. It breaks with old logic and prejudices, finding in today’s disorder the seeds of something better. For thinkers and doers, for citizens, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who believe Europe can be more than an old continent in crisis.
Richard Dadd (1817–1886) constructed fairytale worlds and other highly original works of art. After making his name as an exceptional student at the Royal Academy in the late 1830s, he traveled to the Eastern Mediterranean, where he developed a psychotic illness that led to the killing of his father. Dadd spent the rest of his life in London’s Bethlem Royal Hospital and then Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, in both of which he was encouraged to paint.
Dadd’s output encompasses much more than the fairy paintings for which he is renowned. There are also highly detailed sketches evocative of his Eastern Mediterranean travels, remarkable characterizations of the human passions, and perceptive portraits of his doctors. Profusely illustrated throughout, this new account of his life and art by Nicholas Tromans and other leading scholars re-examines the legacy of one of the most fascinating figures in the visual arts of the Victorian era.
From the bay of Saint-Tropez to the remote waters of Antarctica, a new generation of superyachts is reshaping the culture of contemporary seafaring. Whether maritime retreat or architectural statement, these incredible yachts are extending the frontiers of design, luxury and engineering.
Superyacht takes you on a rare, immersive journey inside the most exceptional vessels on the water today – boats that embody the highest expression of form, materiality and innovation. Through sculptural exteriors and meticulously conceived interiors, Superyacht reveals the extraordinary skill and artisanship elevating every element of these floating residences: the cabins and salons, spas and beach clubs, staterooms and terraces.
Unfolding through sumptuous photography, the story is told through in-depth interviews with the world’s leading design studios, including Nuvolari Lenard, Winch Design, Sinot, Liaigre and Reymond Langton; interior designers such as Bryan O’Sullivan and M2atelier; and master shipyards including the Ferretti Group, Feadship, Tankoa, Sanlorenzo, Damen, Admiral and Lürssen.
A beautifully produced edition with over 300 large-format images, Superyacht is the definitive survey of the aesthetics and ambitions driving the new era of luxury yacht design.
The most chic glamor photographer of the moment (Him, Playboy France in particular) Lionel Daviat returns with a new book in which he fulfills the fantasy we’ve all experienced: wearing glasses that undress. The result is breathtaking, with a refined erotic aesthetic.
A multitude of beautiful models in more or less daring situations: in beautiful apartments, on ski slopes, or even in the street!
The special ‘lenticular’ nature of the special cover features a model which will appear either dressed or undressed, depending on the angle of the view.
Lionel Daviet, who lives on the shores of Lake Annecy near Geneva, trained in film photography, became a master of chic digital photography, and harnessed the infinite resources of AI better than anyone else in the world to enhance charm, creativity, and beauty. The result: photos that are larger than life.
Text in English and French.
Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams, by Edinburgh-based artist Barry McGlashan, documents the past two years of his practice, including the celebrated solo exhibition of the same name at Frestonian Gallery from the spring of 2025. Thresholds, metaphorical and literal, are an omnipresent motif in Barry McGlashan’s evocative paintings. The featured works bring viewers to the edge of lakes, to rivers and roads, and lead to the foot of mountains. Other times the viewer is inside, looking out through windows to the landscape and sky beyond. Transcending time and geography, reality and folklore, McGlashan’s dream-like and otherworldly paintings are as haunting as they are enchanting.
This publication also features works presented by the artist and gallery at Art SG in Singapore in early 2025, as well as documentation of The Distant Ideal, McGlashan’s first presentation at Frestonian in March 2024.
Flowers of Fire is a poetic and experimental collaboration between artist Anaïs Tondeur and philosopher Michael Marder, created during a residency in Naples in dialogue with scientists and the inhabitants of the Terra dei Fuochi. The project intertwines photography, ecology, and philosophy to address a landscape marked by pollution and environmental trauma. Using an innovative technique of phytography, Tondeur lets plants imprint their own presence onto photosensitive paper and textiles recovered from landfills—images born from sunlight, soil, and vegetal touch. Marder responds with letters addressed to the plants, read aloud by the artist in a ritual of correspondence and care. Together, their dialogue gives form to an ethics of listening and reciprocity between human and vegetal life. Both artwork and ecological meditation, Flowers of Fire invites us to imagine new bonds of responsibility with the living world.
The Language of Home offers a unique glimpse into the creative partnership of Will Meyer and Gray Davis, cofounders of the globally recognized 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.
This richly illustrated publication accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) in the Netherlands, one of the most celebrated figures in modern Indian art. Often called the “Frida Kahlo of India”, Sher-Gil combined elements of Western modernism with the aesthetics and subjects of traditional Indian art, forging a distinctive style that profoundly influenced later generations of artists. The book offers new insights into Sher-Gil’s life and artistic journey, from her Hungarian-Indian heritage and training in Paris to her groundbreaking work in India during the 1930s. Essays by experts from India and the Netherlands explore her cultural context, artistic development, and enduring legacy.
Featuring rarely seen works from India’s national collections, this publication provides an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover an artist whose vision bridged continents and redefined modern art in the 20th century.
The 500 Hidden Secrets of Chicago reveals 500 off-the-beaten- track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore Chicago’s best-kept secrets, e.g. 5 cafes for sitting a spell, 5 iconic Chicago merchants, 5 ways to enjoy the Chicago river, 5 unlikely art destinations, 5 historic music spots… and much more.
This second edition is fully revised and updated.
Also available: The 500 Hidden Secrets of New York, The 500 Hidden Secrets of Tokyo, The 500 Hidden Secrets of Miami, The 500 Hidden Secrets of Seattle, The 500 Hidden Secrets of San Francisco, and many more. Discover the series at the500hiddensecrets.com
“The beautifully illustrated book is more than just an illustrious coffee-table tome. It is a fun and informative read, chock-full of behind-the-scenes anecdotes, stories, and little-known secrets of the families and friends that populate the industry.” — Jewellery Outlook
“… Jewelry Creators: Dynamic Duos and Generational Gems is not only a tribute to the people behind the jewels, but also a reflection on the collaborative nature of creativity in contemporary jewelry.” — Laura Astrologo Porche’s Substack
“It is a fun and informative read, filled with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, stories and little-known secrets of the families and friends that populate the industry.” — Intervals by Anthony DeMarco
Jewelry Creators: Dynamic Duos and Generational Gems is a beautifully illustrated book that celebrates the relationships at the core of the jewelry and gemstone industry. Divided into two chapters, the book provides an insight into the world of those that work as a duo, be it family members or close friends, and those that are part of a generational legacy. More than just an illustrious tome presenting the art of jewelry making, Jewelry Creators is a fun and informative read with behind-the scenes anecdotes and little-known secrets from 22 brands. All who are featured in the book have merged their artistic talents and professional styles, complementing one another to create some of the most memorable and enduring pieces that delve into the past, reveal the present, and speak to the future. Whether you’re new to the jewelry world, a longtime enthusiast, a collector who cherishes innovation and heritage, or simply someone who delights in lively conversational narratives, the stories shared within these pages are here to inspire.
Simon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds in a visually stunning art book
‘No other creatures have fixed themselves so obsessively and ubiquitously in our restless, earth-stuck imagination as birds… the fixation painted, imprinted, sculpted, filmed in our art.’ – Simon Schama
From Icarus to Peter Pan, who hasn’t dreamt of flying? Birds are the embodiment of our desires, fears and fantasies. In this publication internationally renowned (art) historian Simon Schama and Mauritshuis director Martine Gosselink explore the fascinating relationship between humans and birds through art, literature and cultural history.
Carel Fabritius’s world-famous Goldfinch, Picasso’s Dove, Brancusi’s Bird in Space, an Egyptian falcon mummy, a feather dress by Iris van Herpen: this book is a visual and literary journey through centuries of bird imagery. The icing on the cake is a wonderful anthology of bird stories from, among other works, The Epic of Gilgameshand One Thousand and One Nights, as well as bird poems by such writers as Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Bob Marley and Rūmī.
With contributions by Simon Schama, Martine Gosselink, Laura Cumming, Stefan Hertmans, Philip Hoare, Eva Meijer and Adrienne Quarles van Ufford.
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schamain Mauritshuis, The Hague from 12 February to 7 June 2026.
Rose Wylie OBE RA (b. 1934) lives and works in Kent. She paints from memory, frequently taking her imagery from mass media. Her large works on unstretched, unprimed canvas appear simple at first glance, but close inspection reveals them to be subtle meditations on the nature of visual representation. She regularly brings together apparently disparate images, creating visual rhymes and resonances that coalesce into unified compositions.
This new book, the catalogue of a large-scale exhibition at the Royal Academy, brings together leading authorities on Wylie’s work and a host of her unmistakable imagery.
The seventh book in the Laboratorium series is entitled Revision, celebrating the joyful diffusion of everyday aspects of building and solid means of creating spatial structures at the new first-year course of the HSLU, overlapped by, compared to and confronted with theses, references and itself. The illustrated book regards itself as a handy inspiration machine for design that is motivated by spatial construction, while appealing for diversity and multi-valence in architecture and referring to a wide range of contemporary revisions – namely those referring to collective values and goals, our self-awareness as practicing architects, and also structural revision as an act of upkeep and care.
Text in English and German.
From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono presents around 85 jewelry works by some 45 internationally renowned female visual artists from the 1920s to the present day. Their jewelry pieces open up new, often surprising perspectives on their artistic production. Some pieces captivate with minimalist elegance, others with their expressive, sculptural presence or playful humor, with each unique work consolidating an artistic vision into a small personal statement. With its exhibition of the same name, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK; Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne) deliberately focuses on female standpoints, thus breaking with the male-dominated perception of avant-garde art jewelry.
Artists featured include: Lynda Benglis; Pierrette Bloch; Barbara Bloom; Katinka Bock; Louise Bourgeois; Helen Britton; Barbara Chase-Riboud; Claudia Comte; Sheila Concari; Sonia Delaunay; Nathalia Edenmont; Aube Elléouët; Claire von Falkenstein; Ruth Francken; Marcia Grostein; Jenny Holzer; Rebecca Horn; Annabelle d’Huart; Leiko Ikemura; Jacqueline de Jong; Yayoi Kusama; Alicja Kwade; Claude Lalanne; Liliane Lijn; Rita McBride; Blanca Muños; Brigitte Nahon; Eva Renée Nele [E. R. Nele]; Louise Nevelson; Michele Oka Doner; Yoko Ono; Meret Oppenheim; Françoise Pétrovitch; Niki de Saint Phalle; Armelle de Sainte Marie; Elodie Seguin; Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas; Kiki Smith; Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Dorothea Tanning; Sissel Tolaas; Rosemarie Trockel; Paloma Varga Weisz; Sophia Vari; Joana Vasconcelos; Zhou Yiyan.
Text in English and German.