Welcome to 111 Places in Richmond That You Must Not Miss, a collection of the sites and experiences that make the River City such a special place. To those who don’t know Richmond, Virginia, USA, you’ll find the city itself to be a hidden gem, the cradle of 400 years of American history, steward of the magnificent James River, and the unlikely home to heralded culinary masters.
To those who do know Richmond, the self-deprecating but proud populace inured to its remarkable features, by flipping through these pages you will uncover secrets about your city, new and old. You know Hollywood Cemetery, but do you know the final resting place of our famous psychic horse? Have you kept an open mind about our smaller neighbors to the North and South and gazed at the Heavens from “the Center of the Universe” or seen the Petersburg residence constructed entirely from tombstones?
Lieven Vanlommel is a Belgian entrepreneur who sees opportunities where others see problems. Thirty years ago, he already believed in ultra-fresh food – then still a niche market – and built Foodmaker into one of the most distinctive European brands in the food sector. No Filter follows his entrepreneurial journey: from the first salad bar concept in 1996 to the development of a European brand driven by one ambition: to make healthy food as accessible as fast food. This is not a traditional marketing book, but an honest account of nearly thirty years of entrepreneurship, taking risks and scaling a business. The book also features collaborations and stories with ambassadors such as Jeroom, Tom Boonen, Stefan Everts, Jeroen Meus, Kim Clijsters and Tia Hellebaut.
“Lieven refused to let me invest in his company. I understand him, though, it could have undermined our friendship.” Stefan Everts, ten-time world motocross champion.
“Lieven has just the right mix of craziness and determination to make it work. With him, it’s always all or nothing, just like in elite sport.” Tom Boonen, world road cycling champion.
“The response during and after the Covid crisis turned Foodmaker into a successful Belgian company in multiple markets and a highly sought-after partner for retailers and food businesses, including some of the best in the world.” Xavier Piesvaux, former CEO of Delhaize.
“Foodmaker feels like a second family. That says a lot about how sustainable the company is.” Tia Hellebaut, Olympic high jump champion.
From design-focused city hotels to remote forest cabins and luxurious retreats high above the Arctic Circle, Nordic Places To Stay showcases some of the very best accommodation options across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands. Drawing on her extensive travels and her many years as a blogger and hotel reviewer, author Abi Dare presents a curated selection of overnight stays across the Nordic region. They vary in size, style and location, but all offer an unforgettable experience. Through stunning photography and informative text, the book explores what makes each one special, whether it be innovative architecture, beautiful interiors, delicious food or a breathtaking view. There are also inspiring guides that bring the featured destinations to life, helping you to plan and make the most of your own Nordic adventures.
A Glimpse of Paradise is a major monograph on one of the most distinctive artists of our time – the American painter John Alexander (b.1945). While providing a survey of his entire decades-long career, it focuses in particular on the last twelve years.
A range of texts and high-quality reproductions illuminate Alexander’s profound connection to the natural world, a relationship forged in his childhood in the bayous and woods of East Texas, and enriched by his subsequent immersion in various traditions of landscape painting, from Monet to the Hudson River School painters. Also running through his work is a clear-eyed engagement with our current environmental peril.
The book features a foreword by gallerist John Berggruen; an introduction from Lorne Michaels; an essay by writer and academic Dr Matthew Holman; and a series of conversations between the artist and Adam Fisher, an author and journalist who specializes in long-form interview and oral history.
Tinos Trilogy is a new three-volume box set of photobooks by Clive Frost, featuring images made in Tinos, a Greek island in the Cyclades complex in the Aegean Sea. Alternative Facts, Rock, and Sky Stories comprise an extensive collection of images made between 2018 and 2026. Almost 240 photographs explore Tinos’s unique character and Frost’s relationship with the island, a place he called home for seven years.
Alternative Facts includes an essay by Makis Andronopoulos, a writer and journalist living in Tinos and Athens, which investigates the environmental, economic, and socio-political factors that shape the island. Rock features an essay by writer, journalist, climber, and former geologist Evan Howell describing Tinos in relation to the granite and marble that are built into the fabric of the island’s dynamic landscapes, sculpture, and architecture. And in Sky Stories, Clive Frost writes movingly about the effects of tourism and over-development on Tinos.
In the valleys of al-ʿUla, in the north-west of the Arabian Peninsula, lie the remains of two remarkable ancient cities. Dadan was a wealthy oasis kingdom on the Incense Road, its name known even to the biblical prophets. A short distance to the north, Hegra, the Petra of Arabia, preserves the monumental rock-cut tombs of the Nabataeans, the caravan traders who commanded this desert crossroads.
In Dadan and Hegra, Jane Taylor traces three thousand years of human life in this extraordinary landscape: from its deep geological origins and the rise of the aromatics trade, through the Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms and the Nabataean masterworks at Hegra, to the pilgrimage era and the sites’ rediscovery by Western travelers and modern archaeology. Richly illustrated with photography and maps, it is an authoritative and accessible portrait of a place now recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Four years after the publication of the first A Home Away from Home, our fascination with exceptional private houses has only grown stronger.
The 30 distinctive guesthouses presented in this second edition share that spirit. They are places where architecture, landscape and hospitality come together naturally; places conceived not merely to accommodate travelers, but to make them feel that, for a few precious days or weeks, they genuinely belong there.
Some are deeply personal homes whose owners have opened their doors to guests. Others are remarkable architectural projects created around a particular landscape or way of life. There are houses shaped by the sea and others surrounded by forests, olive groves, vineyards or mountains; intimate retreats for two and generous residences made for families and groups of friends. What connects them is not a particular style or destination, but a certain attitude toward living. From a restored centuries-old house among the rolling hills of Tuscany to a secluded sanctuary surrounded by tropical vegetation in Sri Lanka; from the elemental beauty of a Cycladic island house overlooking the Aegean to a contemporary loft immersed in the energy of Athens, these homes show how wonderfully diverse the idea of a home away from home can be.
Architecture naturally plays an important role, yet these houses are not included simply because they photograph beautifully. The most memorable homes are those in which design becomes almost invisible once you begin to live in them. Natural light, tactile materials, open kitchens, shaded terraces, gardens and swimming pools become part of the rhythm of the day. Indoors and outdoors merge, the surrounding landscape enters the house, and carefully designed spaces encourage a wonderfully unstructured way of living.
This second volume of A Home Away from Home is not simply a collection of 30 beautiful guesthouses. It is an invitation to discover 30 different ways of living well. Each has its own identity, atmosphere and story.
Lieven Vanlommel is a Belgian entrepreneur who sees opportunities where others see problems. Thirty years ago, he already believed in ultra-fresh food – then still a niche market – and built Foodmaker into one of the most distinctive European brands in the food sector. No Filter follows his entrepreneurial journey: from the first salad bar concept in 1996 to the development of a European brand driven by one ambition: to make healthy food as accessible as fast food. This is not a traditional marketing book, but an honest account of nearly thirty years of entrepreneurship, taking risks and scaling a business. The book also features collaborations and stories with ambassadors such as Jeroom, Tom Boonen, Stefan Everts, Jeroen Meus, Kim Clijsters and Tia Hellebaut.
“Lieven refused to let me invest in his company. I understand him, though, it could have undermined our friendship.” Stefan Everts, ten-time world motocross champion.
“Lieven has just the right mix of craziness and determination to make it work. With him, it’s always all or nothing, just like in elite sport.” Tom Boonen, world road cycling champion.
“The response during and after the Covid crisis turned Foodmaker into a successful Belgian company in multiple markets and a highly sought-after partner for retailers and food businesses, including some of the best in the world.” Xavier Piesvaux, former CEO of Delhaize.
“Foodmaker feels like a second family. That says a lot about how sustainable the company is.” Tia Hellebaut, Olympic high jump champion.
Conceived and designed entirely by Joni Mitchell, Julien’s Publishing is proud to present NEWS, the artist’s first-ever book of paintings.
Over the past 60 years, Mitchell has created some of the most memorable music of her generation while refining an equally striking and distinctive visual language. In presenting NEWS, a bold and deeply personal body of work, Mitchell’s presents her impassioned, response to the world as she sees it today.
In 22 compelling new paintings, Mitchell’s uncompromising imagery and sharp wit skewers power, politics and global turbulence, in a powerful expression of the artist’s undimmed creative independence and vision. This is Joni Mitchell’s vision of a world in flux – and a paean to the power of art.
Founded 13 years ago by Geoffrey Graci, a trained architect, G-Line Construct is a general contracting company based in Braine-l’Alleud and active primarily in Brussels, Walloon Brabant, and Flemish Brabant. Over the years, the company has developed a multidisciplinary approach grounded in a simple conviction: the success of a project depends as much on technical expertise as on the quality of the people and craftsmanship that bring it to life. Specializing in renovation, restoration, new construction, and interior build-outs for private residences, G-Line Construct focuses on demanding projects where every detail matters. Its teams work closely with architects, craftspeople, and engineering firms to identify solutions that are thoughtful, durable, and consistent with the overall architectural vision. From the rehabilitation of buildings with distinctive character to the creation of custom interiors, the company remains committed to a single vision: to preserve, transform, and build with respect, precision, and passion. That philosophy finds a natural expression in this book, dedicated to the women and men whose skills and craftsmanship bring each project to life.
Text in English and French.
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 colorist at Pinton since 1970.
Text in English and French.
A major figure of photojournalism at AFP, Éric Schwab is best known for having been one of the first to document the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. But his work is far from limited to that dramatic period of history. After the Liberation, Éric Schwab left France for New York, where his American work took on a lighter, even glamorous tone, particularly in the cabarets, where he enjoyed photographing dancers and jazz musicians… He then joined several United Nations agencies, building a humanist body of photographic work there. Over the 15 years he devoted to this, he traveled the world – Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Trinidad, Haiti – producing thousands of striking photographs: schools for UNESCO, clinics for the WHO, factories for the International Labour Office. “All the usual misery that I cannot get used to,” he wrote in one of his rare logbooks.
The result of an exceptional partnership between Agence France-Presse and Cercle d’Art, this book is published on the occasion of the monographic exhibition devoted to the photographer at UNESCO. It aims to shed light on the multifaceted work of a figure who has for too long gone under the radar in the history of photography.
Text in English and French.
FMR Issue No. 19 follows Ariadne’s thread through myth and art; encounters Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro’s extravagant Portuguese ceramics; joins the irreverent Abbot of Cockaigne and the artists of the Val di Blenio; explores Caserta’s palace and myth-filled English Garden; and reopens Patrick Mauriès and Érik Desmazières’s cabinet of curiosities. Hors d’Oeuvre offers vertigo, cittern music, the Threepenny Galleries, and Miele’s veil: an issue devoted to wonder, satire, beauty, and the pleasures of discovery.
“Terry was everywhere in the 60s – he knew everything and everyone that was happening” Keith Richards
“Terry O’Neill rates rightly as one of the best photographers in the world. He captures something special” Sir Michael Caine
“When it comes to photographic legends there can be few more prolific or revered than Terry O’Neill, the man who shot the greats.” VOGUE
“This sumptuous collection of portraits, taken over six decades, represents the best of his memorable career and should grace every coffee table in the land” The Daily Mail
“I’ve been repeatedly asked to write my autobiography – I have seen an awful lot of famous people at their best and worst – but I’m not interested in making money trading their secrets or mine. I want my pictures to tell a story not sell a story.” Terry O’Neill
Terry O’Neill is one of the world’s most celebrated and collected photographers. No one has captured the frontline of fame so broadly – and for so long. For more than 50 years, he has photographed rock stars and presidents, royals and movie stars, at work, at play, in private. He pioneered backstage reportage photography with the likes of Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Sir Elton John and Chuck Berry and his work comprises a vital chronicle of rock and roll history.
Now, for the first time, an exhaustive cataloging of his archive conducted over the last three years has revisited more than 2 million negatives and has unearthed unseen images that escaped the eye over a career spanning 53 years. Similarly, his use of 35mm cameras on film sets and the early pop music shows of the 60s opened up a new visual art form using photojournalism, to revolutionise formal portraiture. His work captured the iconic, candid, and unguarded moments of the famous and the notorious – from Ava Gardner to Amy Winehouse, from Churchill to Nelson Mandela, from the earliest photographs of young emerging bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. O’ Neill spent more than 30 years photographing Frank Sinatra, amassing a unique archive of more than 3,000 Sinatra negatives.
Add to that the magazine covers, album sleeves, film poster and fashion shoots of 1,000 stars, and Terry O’Neill – comprises the most compelling and epic catalog of the age of celebrity. Terry O’Neill has worked for the most prestigious magazines in the world including Time, Newsweek, Stern, Bunte, Figaro, The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, People, Parade, Vogue and many others. And his award launched to showcase the work of young emerging photographers is now one of the most highly prized global competitions in art. The Royal Society of Arts has honored him with the rare Centenary Medal for his lifetime achievement. Only a dozen have ever been awarded in recognition of ‘outstanding contributions to the art and science of photography.’
A multitude of colorful and naïve biblical and other religious pottery figures found their way into 19th century Victorian homes in Britain. They were bought by tradesmen, shop-keepers, clerks, teachers and the more skilled working class people. This book tells the story of these Staffordshire pottery figures, which sold in their thousands to stand on the mantelpieces of Christian families, both Protestant and Catholic.
Three chapters provide a social history context: the religious background, an assessment of who purchased the figures, the Victorian home and how it was furnished. The final four chapters review the pottery figures themselves, which are based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, relevant religious themes and portraits of preachers. A catalogue of well over 200 figures in full color with an assessment of their dating and rarity completes the book.
This is the first comprehensive record of Victorian religious figures placed in the context of their times.
Goldscheider, a Viennese factory (est. 1885), soon sped to the top of European ceramics makers. Figures and vessels of faience and terracotta as well as bronze and alabaster, all of top quality in respect of form and workmanship, were created in the Historicist, Jugendstil and Art Deco period styles. A crucial factor to their success was the collaboration with distinguished sculptors and ceramicists of the day, which included Demetre Chiparus, Walter Bosse and Josef Lorenzl, all of whom were responsible for a great many of the Goldscheider designs. This success story was quashed by the National Socialist aryanization in 1938: the Goldscheider family was forced to emigrate, the firm was sold and the new proprietor was unable to sustain the high aesthetic quality standard. The Goldscheider brothers did manage to open new ceramics businesses while in exile in the US and England, and Walter Goldscheider even returned to Vienna after the Second World War to resume his post as managing director of his old firm; however, in the 1950s the great ceramics tradition of this venerable Viennese business ended when it was sold to the German Carstens company. Over 600 color photographs show Goldscheider examples, demonstrating why this firm earned such a highly regarded reputation in the world of ceramics.
Text in English and German.
The present publication is an essential part of the narrative of Wayne Higby’s retrospective exhibition – focusing on the concept of the artist scholar – at ASU Art Museum, in Spring 2013. It documents his ceramic work with over 150 images of 50 seminal works and gives context to the story behind the artwork. Wayne Higby’s international reputation both as an artist, a scholar and teacher will be explored in the contributions to this book that includes a detailed chronology of Higby’s life and career as well as highlights and excerpts from his well known writings on ceramic art. Essays on the American Landscape and American landscape art as the inspiration behind Higby’s work as well as his important, influential explorations into contemporary vessel aesthetics are included along with an essay that chronicles his central role in the development of contemporary Chinese ceramic art. Additionally, Higby’s recent, dramatic, late career move to large architectural installations is explored in detail. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Wayne Higby received a B.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, in 1966, and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1968. Since 1973, he has been on the faculty of the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Wayne Higby is recognized as one of the most important and influential ceramic artists of the late 20th, early 21st, century. In particular, his work is celebrated for its innovative use of the language of landscape. Contents: Helen Williams Drutt – Foreword; Peter Held – Overview/Statement; Henry Saye – The American Landscape; Tanya Harrod – The Vessel in Contemporary Art; Ezra Shales –The Artistic Scholar; Mary McInnes – Architectural Work; Carla Coch – China Journal; Appendix; Chronology; Biography; Works in Public Collections; Bibliography; Artist Statements; Artist’s Acknowledgements.
The Norwegian Torbjørn Kvasbø (b. 1953) is considered a leading figure in the field of contemporary ceramic art. He exhibits regularly in Asia, Europe and the US and achieved a unique status as an artist and pioneer, and also as a teacher with widespread influence having been actively engaged in restructuring the art schools where he taught. The art historian Jorunn Veiteberg analyzes in this publication Kvasbø’s works from 1977 to the present day. Most critics have described his objects as forms inspired by nature, by lava eruptions or landscapes. Veiteberg is critical of this and sees them more as bodily expressions. Kerstin Wickmann, design historian and former professor at Konstfack in Stockholm, discusses Kvasbø’s twelve years as teacher in Stockholm and his influence on his students and the educational system.
Torbjørn Kvasbø’s work is represented in numerous international museums and private collections, such as the National Museum, Stockholm/SE, Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen/DK, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo/NO, Auckland Institute and Museum/NZ, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Ceramics-Park Mino, Gifu/JP, World Ceramic Exposition/KOR, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia MO/US.
Text in English, Swedish & Norwegian.
Hugely popular in his own day and an enormous influence on Monet, van Gogh and other leading European artists, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 1858) has never lost his appeal. A prolific artist, he produced between 4,000 and 5,000 woodblock print designs. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese art in both Japan and the West. Hiroshige’s unusual compositions, humorous depictions of people involved in everyday activities and masterly expression of weather, light and season, are explored in this publication with its especially fine printing and experts’ notations. It is part of a series featuring the depth of the Japanese art holdings at the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, the world’s first university art museum. The gems of information are numerous, including a page on “how to read a print” — with such as a note on “the censor’s mark,” a detail that only the cognoscenti might recognize. The book adds greatly to the art lover’s knowledge and pleasure.
Contents:
How to ‘read’ a Japanese Print, Preface, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) Woodblock Print Designer, Making a Japanese Woodblock Print, I Views along the Tokaido, II Views of the Provinces, III Views of Edo, IV Views of Mount Fuji, Further Reading.
“In the beginning, there was tagging and writing on the walls.” From Style Writing to Art is the first anthology of Street Art ever published worldwide. Magda Danysz, the internationally renowned Street Art gallerist, guides the reader on this immersive journey into the heart of the most interesting artistic movement at the turn of the century. This book grapples with Style Writing, Graffiti, and Street Art. It focuses on the fascinating emergence of the movement amongst the graffiti pioneers of the 1960s, their first appearance in galleries in the 1980s, right up to the cutting-edge works made by the Street Artists of today. Spanning over four decades, the book is divided into three sections with each containing detailed accounts of the surfacing of different styles and techniques. Each period is complete with extensive biographies and analysis covering 50 legendary artists including Seen, JR, Miss Van, JonOne, Shepard Fairey, Quik, Blade, Doze Green, and Keith Haring. “Let me repeat myself,” Danysz writes, “if only for the sceptic eye, for the blind and lost or for the latecomers who ve simply just missed the boat: I believe this type of urban art to be the most important artistic movement at the turn of the century.”
In Love With Photography is a unique treasure in the history of photography, lifted from the archives of Volker Hinz, one of the most important and indefatigable photographers of our time. A treasure, amassed in almost 50 years by a passionate collector of portraits and presented here for the first time. Volker Hinz photographed those who normally remain hidden behind their cameras. Whenever and wherever he encountered them: at work, at home, in public or private moments. This is how a unique collection of the most renowned photographers of the second half of the 20th and the early 21st centuries came about. Contents: Prelude; Out and about discovering people; The plates; Index. Text in English and German.
“It is a rare species, but it exists,” as ’60s art critic Pascal Renous pointed out on the subject of artistic couples. The designer-decorator duo of Janine Abraham and Dirk-Jan Rol met at Jacques Dumond’s studio in 1955. The couple shared the same love of precision, line and plain colors. Their earliest joint creations were first exhibited at the Salon des artistes décorateurs, in Paris. Their furniture, made of wicker, wood and aluminum, twice won prizes at the Salon des artistes décorateurs (a sideboard in 1956 and an armchair in 1958), garnering notice from the public and professionals alike. Jean Royère did not hesitate to use their emblematic Soleil armchair (gold medal at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair) in the decoration of the palace of the shah of Iran, in Teheran. Their light and functional designs are available today, re-edited by Yota Design. Abraham & Rol were also interior designers for both individual and large corporate clients, such as Yves Rocher and Saint-Gobain, with the same precision and sense of composition that define their furniture pieces. The couple also expressed their creativity through architecture, their mastery of this discipline enabling them to design some twenty houses from the 1960s through the 2000s in the Île-de-France region. Their homes are genuine inhabited sculptures, of which certain have become truly emblematic. Text in English and French.
Marc Held made history in 1965 with his famous Culbuto armchair and followed it in 1966 with furniture manufactured by Prisunic. Over a period of fifty years, he created some 150 furniture pieces, notably participating in the interior design of the apartments in the Élysée Palace in 1983. Beginning in the 1970s, he also designed singular works of architecture, for individuals and for corporate clients such as IBM. At the end of the 1980s he chose to focus entirely his passion when he settled on the Greek island of Skopelos. Interested in vernacular architecture, he dedicated a widely acknowledged book on Greece, Maisons de Skopelos, précis d’architecture in 1994, to it. It was also on Skopelos where over a period of thirty years he built eight exceptional villas: Lemonia, Maistros, Nina, Loukas, The Temple, Mourtia, Myrto and Kapsari. Each house is an architectural manifesto in its own right. These eight villas, in spectacular locations beside the sea, built with local materials and in accordance with the construction techniques of the island – all the artisans were from there – with the magical landscapes in which they are integrated, are eight lessons on the notion of genius loci, which so inspired Marc Held’s architecture. Photographed by Deidi von Schaewen – with spectacular shots taken via drone-mounted cameras – his eight beautiful villas are also presented with his drawings and plans developed during their conception phases. Text in English and French.
Staggering ethnic diversity, rich cultural history, and a robust arts scene make Queens one of the most exciting destinations in all of New York City. See and taste the world, travel back in time, and experience nature all without leaving the confines of Queens. Home to immigrants from Azerbaijan to Vietnam and everywhere in between, Queens is truly a melting pot of cultures and cuisines. Eat your way through China, Malaysia, Romania, and visit a Tibetan dumpling speakeasy – no passport necessary. Visit the birthplace of religious freedom in America and then tour local Hindu, Thai and Korean temples. Marvel at migratory birds and terrapins and visit the oldest tree in New York City. Whether you’re a first time visitor or a long-time resident, you’ll find 111 hidden places in Queens. The most majestic of New York City’s boroughs is yours to explore and discover.