Stop waiting for the perfect moment. Boost Your Creativity is a hands-on guide designed to break down creative barriers and get you moving. Packed with more than 64 powerful principles like “Think Long, Write Short” and “Quantity Over Quality,” this book provides quick, actionable exercises that will spark your imagination and push you into action. Inside, you’ll find:
-Practical exercises that help you get started immediately
-Creative prompts to challenge your thinking and inspire new ideas
-Quotes and insights to keep you motivated and on track
Whether you’re an artist, writer, designer, or simply someone looking to bring more creativity into your life, Boost Your Creativity gives you the tools to take immediate action. Don’t wait for inspiration—create it!
“… This volume is a perfect fit for mood boards, forward-looking conversations, and stories about the bags that have continued to drive style conversations for decades.” — La Repubblica
Bags: The Classic Collection is an unmissable celebration of the most iconic and influential handbags in history.
Featuring 30 of the world’s most desirable models, this supremely elegant volume takes you on a journey through luxury, fashion and design, exploring the aesthetic world of each featured bag through stunning photos and revealing design stories. Each of the featured handbags has transcended the functional and even the fashionable to become a bona fide status symbol in its own right. From the Hermès Kelly to the Fendi Baguette, the Chanel 2.55 to the Balenciaga Motorcycle bag, each is defined by a unique vision, and each has impacted the cultural landscape in its own special way.
Written by Lucia Savi of London’s Design Museum, this is a luxuriously illustrated guide to the historical contexts and aesthetic philosophies that make each of these handbags utterly timeless.
The bags: Chanel 2.55; Mulberry Alexa; Givenchy Antigona; Anya Hindmarch I’m NOT A Plastic Bag; Roberta di Camerino Bagonghi Bag; Fendi Baguette; Gucci Bamboo; Issey Miyake Bao Bao; Hermès Birkin; Chanel Boy; Bottega Veneta Cassette; Jacquemus Chiquito; Balenciaga City Bag; Alexander McQueen Knuckle Clutch; Gucci Dyonysus; Stella McCartney Falabella; Prada Galleria; Louis Vuitton Graffiti Keepall Bag; Gucci Jackie; Hermès Kelly; Dior Lady; Céline Luggage Bag; Lulu Guinness Florist’s Basket; Prada Nylon Vela Backpack; Chloé Paddington; Loewe Puzzle Bag; Dior Saddle; Louis Vuitton Speedy; Judith Leiber Handbags; Cupcake Bag; Launer Traviata
A beautifully illustrated and extensively researched collection of 100 of the most famous houses of Britain’s Arts and Crafts Movement.
The Arts and Crafts Movement, founded in the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, produced some of the world’s most enduring architectural masterpieces. Author and architect David Cole presents the 100 great Arts and Crafts houses, each individually described and analyzed with insightful detail and floor plans, and illustrated with stunning photography.
Beginning with Morris’s own iconic Red House, the book traces the fifty-year span of the movement, with a short chapter dedicated to each of these extraordinary houses: from the works of the pioneer Arts and Crafts architects, to the great reformer architects of the next generation, to the craftsman architects who took their lives and their work to the countryside, to the movement’s Scottish architects, and finally to the houses of the Garden Cities and suburbs built through the movement’s last decade before the First World War. The book features the great houses of some forty of the movement’s most renowned architects, including Philip Webb, R. Norman Shaw, E.S. Prior, William Lethaby, C.F.A. Voysey, Edgar Wood, Ernest Gimson, the Barnsley brothers, C.R. Ashbee, M.H. Baillie Scott, Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Parker and Unwin, and many others.
As Morris famously said, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
Step inside Bold Living, a book that takes you through some extravagant, bold, and very personal homes. Bold Living is a celebration of lavish decors, striking colours, rich materials, and unusual combinations. The interiors in Bold Living reveal the personalities of the people who live in them: conceptual artists, a gallery owner, a haute-couture florist, resounding names in the world of fashion, etc. Each of them transformed their place into a bold home, uncompromisingly so. Guillaume de Laubier’s interior photographs are given plenty of breathing space in this visually stunning book, which invites you to add your own spice to your interior.
Japandi, that peaceful blend of Japanese and Scandinavian design, has earned its place in the garden. After Japandi Living and Japandi, books in which the reader learned more about the interior trend and overall lifestyle, Laila Rietbergen now explores the world of Japandi outdoor spaces.
Japandi Outdoor Living shows the unique way in which inside and outside blend seamlessly in this serene style. The book shows the influence of both the traditional Japanese and the minimalistic Scandinavian garden, and highlights the recurring elements in Japandi outdoor design. The author discusses elements like garden layout, choice of materials, and color palette, and shows stunning projects photos to match. This book will teach you how to give your outdoor space a Japandi touch – however modest or grand it may be – and how to transform it into the perfect place to unwind.
Bruna grew up between sheets of dough in her grandparents’ pasta shop. Emanuele was raised in his family’s Roman osteria. After culinary school, they honed their skills in some of Europe’s top kitchens—from Gordon Ramsay in London to Pure C in Cadzand. Today, they’ve combined their Italian roots and culinary know-how in Pastology—a bold, and totally unfiltered community for pasta lovers who don’t play by the rules. In their highly anticipated debut cookbook, the pasta masters guide you from flour to fork. No shortcuts, no compromises – just pure, al dente perfection. You’ll discover all the inside tricks and techniques for making pasta the traditional way—egg-based, eggless, filled. Next up are Bruna and Emanuele’s signature dishes, split into 20 timeless Italian recipes and 25 daring modern creations. Short on time? A handful of speedy sauces will even turn store-bought pasta into something unforgettable. Furthermore, you’ll find clever tips, cheeky stories, and jaw-dropping food photography. This isn’t just a cookbook, it’s a pasta revolution!
Campi Flegrei, near Naples, is a seismically active landscape that attracts, stimulates, and challenges. It seduces the soul, engages perception, and demands to be interpreted rather than merely registered.
People have chosen to live amongst these unique geological and volcanic features, weaving the fabric of human occupation and taming a land in perpetual transformation, one of the harshest yet most enchanting environments. Mankind has matched its own impermanence against the earth’s inevitable and unrestrained convulsions, in the process hewing out some of the most glorious examples of human endeavor, such as Cumae, the oldest Greek colony in the Western Mediterranean, the bustling Roman port of Puteoli, and the “dolce vita” savored in the baths and villas dotted around the Bay of Baiae.
Luigi Spina has been exploring this land since 2020, delving into the complex, stratified geography. Key landmarks include places of memory (archaeological sites, monuments, landscapes), which, like true benchmarks of perception, outline the path towards an understanding of a world that links nature, ancient ruins, and the overwhelming presence of mankind. Balanced between mimicry and contradiction, the Campi Flegrei landscape is now blanketed by a dense urban sprawl, where the ancient and the contemporary coexist in a kind of precarious equilibrium, generating a complex socio-cultural state of affairs that is challenging to govern.
Spina explores and photographs places such as the Dragonara Cave, the Piscina Mirabilis, the Theatre of Misenum, the Flavian Amphitheatre at Puteoli, the Temple of Apollo on the shores of Lake Avernus, and the Temples of Venus and Diana, as he wanders through the hills above Baiae, finally heading towards Cumae.
In March of 2008, The National Museum – Architecture opened at Bankplassen 3 in Oslo with an exhibition on Sverre Fehn. He is the architect behind the renovation of Grosch’s bank building from the 1800s and the new museum pavilion. Fehn was also active in selecting which projects should be included in the exhibition and this catalogue. In addition to articles, pictures and drawings, this catalogue also includes quotes and project descriptions by Fehn himself.
The penthouse is the ultimate expression of contemporary urban living. As much a state of mind as a physical space, the word ‘penthouse’ evokes excitement, drama, exclusivity and escape. First emerging a century ago with the dawn of the skyscraper, the penthouse has become the aspirational talisman of the modern global city.
Penthouse brings you inside incredible apartments such as the $235 million One Hyde Park Penthouse in London, New York’s Central Park Tower – the world’s highest residential building – and the supertall Steinway Tower. It also surveys a different side to penthouse style, from coastal residences in Hong Kong, Cape Town and the Gulf to mid-century penthouses in the Hollywood Hills.
A stunning photographic journey in a luxury, fabric-bound edition, Penthouse is an exploration of style at the extremities, told through interviews with the most talented designers working today – designers who are creating spaces that define and defy the frontiers of urban living.
The townhouse has become an ideal of city living, evoking elegance, proportion, and the sense of a private world in the heart of the metropolis. More than any particular interior or architectural style, the townhouse represents a way of life.
Townhouse takes you inside the world’s most beautiful and stylish townhouses, such as an 18th-century Amsterdam canal house restored by Soho House designer Vicky Charles, a classic John Nash London townhouse renovated by Albion Nord, and an exquisite Mediterranean Revival house in Los Angeles reimagined by Night Palm. From Victorian London terraces and New York brownstones to Miami Modernism, contemporary Australian and Beaux-Arts Paris, Townhouse is a stunning photographic journey told through interviews with the world’s leading interior designers.
A luxury fabric-bound edition with over 230 large-format color images, Townhouse is this generation’s definitive survey of period and contemporary townhouse style.
“Inside the World’s Most Beautiful Bars, Where Design Is as Dazzling as the Drinks.” — Food & Wine
Beautiful Bars is a stunning photographic journey through the world’s most beautifully designed cocktail bars, told through interviews with the designers who created them. From New York and London to Buenos Aires and Hong Kong, all are united by incredible interiors, seminal design and cultural impact, captured through lavish, large-format photography.
Interviewees include Martin Brudnizki, designer of Annabel’s and Italy’s Hotel Splendido, and David Collins Studio, who created the legendary Connaught Bar and Café de Paris Monte-Carlo. From the French Riviera’s Casino Royale Palm to Korea’s award-winning Zest Seoul and Mexico’s immersive Tlecan,
Beautiful Bars is the definitive visual bible for all those interested in era-defining design, timeless photography – and the good life.
The introduction to Beautiful Bars is written by the design journalist Peter Martin. Threaded with insights from hours of interviews with famous bar designers and legendary mixologists, it examines the history of the cocktail bar, the cultural impact of cocktails from the Jazz Age to the 1990s revival, and the vivid, globally exploding bar scene of today. Throughout the book, stunning photography is accompanied by insights and commentary on each bar.
Barefoot Living invites you to kick off your shoes and ground yourself, not just literally but metaphorically. In this book, Natalia Swarz explores the concept of barefoot living through her personal lens, exploring the destinations where she has found herself living her best unrushed life: the Mediterranean coast, island life, the countryside, Latin America and in the city. The pages are filled with inspirational photography and interviews, inviting you inside homes, guest houses and boutique hotels belonging to those who are embracing a barefoot, slower pace of life. This book aims to inspire you to live a more mindful life, starting with your own home.
Formula 1 is more popular than ever. The race calendar expands every single year, with more spectators flocking to Formula 1 tracks, and more people tuning in behind their TV screens to follow every twist, every acceleration, and every overtake.
But Formula 1 is much more than what is shown on TV. Formula 1 is mechanics at work in the battle for split-seconds during a pit stop. Formula 1 is massive development departments working to find the key to success. Formula 1 is a commercial circus that entertains and impresses.
In this book, one of the most experienced figures in the Formula 1 caravan, reporter and photographer Peter Nygaard, takes readers behind the scenes. Nygaard has covered almost two-thirds of the Formula 1 Grand Prix races that have been held since Formula 1’s inception in 1950. Through his camera lens and conversations with some of the most central figures, he tells the stories of the greatest drivers, the wildest dramas, and the continuous evolution of Formula 1.
Hear from some of the biggest figures who, from inside the car, the pit lane, or around the track, have experienced everything that makes Formula 1 what it is today.
The war in Ukraine is the largest war Europe has seen since 1945. War photographer Jan Grarup and journalist/historian Adam Holm have documented the bloody struggle of the Ukrainians, in both the hinterland and on the front lines of eastern Ukraine (Zaporizjza, Donbas and Kharkiv). Through photography and reportage, they paint a picture of a country where death reaps its harvest daily. A country in which the fear of impending nuclear war is real and where an entire generation of children and adolescents carry iodine tablets and receive schooling inside basements and bunkers.
Discover the captivating story of vermouth—the aromatic, herb-infused spirit that has quietly shaped cocktail culture for centuries. This beautifully crafted book takes you on a journey through the rich history of vermouth, from its medicinal roots in ancient Europe to its golden age in the bars of Turin and Paris.
Explore the legendary houses that defined the category—Martini & Rossi, Carpano, Dolin, Noilly Prat—and learn how their craft turned vermouth into a global icon of sophistication. With vintage labels, classic advertisements, and rare archival photos, the book pays tribute to the brands that bottled elegance and tradition.
Whether sipped solo or mixed into timeless cocktails like the Negroni, Manhattan, or Martini, vermouth is both versatile and enduring. Inside you’ll find a curated selection of recipes, from classic to contemporary, each celebrating vermouth’s complex character and understated charm.
Perfect for spirits connoisseurs, cocktail lovers, and design enthusiasts alike, this book is a deep dive into one of the most essential—and often overlooked—elements of the modern bar. Raise your glass to vermouth: storied, stylish, and forever in good taste.
Ariana Ahmad is an architect and the founder of her namesake design studio, established in 2010. The studio’s core philosophy is a full-service approach – handling every phase of a project from bare concrete to the final touches, including the selection of accessories and art. A second division of the studio functions as a construction company, allowing for complete turnkey solutions with full implementation. This integrated model ensures accountability for both the final result and the project timeline. The team’s collaborative process has been honed over many years. The studio specializes in private residential projects, ranging from apartments to standalone homes, while also taking on select commercial work.
From 2018 to 2022, Ariana Ahmad was named in Architectural Digest Russia’s TOP 100 and TOP 50 lists, and is also included in ELLE Decoration Russia’s TOP200. In 2022, Ariana joined Gold Edition lnterior+Design.
This book presents a curated journey through the refined, expressive world of Ariana Ahmad Design in sixteen projects—a studio known for creating interiors that are as emotionally resonant as they are visually striking. Each project featured here reflects a deep understanding of space, storytelling, and the intimate connection between architecture and daily life. What unites these diverse interiors is a commitment to authenticity, material richness, and a timeless aesthetic. Ariana Ahmad Design approaches each space with intuition and precision, crafting environments that feel effortlessly layered, personal, and alive. This collection invites readers to step inside a world where beauty is intentional, comfort is elevated, and every detail holds meaning.
The brain is a miracle, a universe that appeals to everyone’s imagination, and one that neuroscientists never tire of exploring. And the more detailed our knowledge of it gets, the more technology advances that enables us to visualize what goes on inside the brain, the more fascinating and intriguing it becomes. This book, created at the Belgian Leuven Brain Institute (LBI), contains breathtaking and inspiring images and vivid text to reveal the current state of international brain research. It features contributions from world-class researchers, full of facts and unique insights.
Pressing Matters explains the fundamental debates in wine, from terroir, production and farming, to tasting, wine’s cultural significance and the economic value of wine. By focusing on wine through the prism of the key fights within each topic, the book presents readers with a story that includes the messiness, human fragility and disagreement about core principles that so often gets skipped at the outset of wine knowledge. The book fairly showcases all sides of the most important debates in wine today, giving the available evidence as well as commenting on what we don’t know. Aimed at those just starting on their wine journey, Pressing Matters is a lively and thoroughly researched history of all the key current wine controversies, written by an author with wine making in his blood, who knows the wine business from the inside.
– Lays out the key current wine controversies in a way that is easily accessible for the non-scientist and those new to wine literature.
– Examines the evidence from experts on both sides of each argument to allow readers to make up their own minds on current hot topics in wine.
– Goes behind the label to explain the buzz words, trends and wine speak used by the wine media.
– Helps readers see clearly today’s bigger wine picture in order to make better informed wine-buying decisions.
– Author is active within the wine scene in California and beyond, and a popular speaker at wine events.
From underdog start-up to industry leader, 40 years of strategic choices, innovative breakthroughs, and bold choices revealed. Lessons Learned of ASML traces the journey from an underdog start‑up to the dominant supplier in a volatile Tech industry. Built on interviews, internal notes and archives, it reconstructs the managerial choices—how ambitions were set, investments staged, partnerships orchestrated, technologies chosen, and setbacks absorbed—and tests them across four decades. Each chapter applies a clear analytical lens and brief reflection prompts, bringing strategy, innovation and ecosystem coordination into one readable, evidence‑driven narrative that opens theory for practice without pretending there is a universal recipe.
David Bowie was the original influencer. For five decades, his songs helped shape the landscape of popular music. But what did he listen to? Which artists, songs and albums did Bowie tune in to throughout his life?
This book, the first of its kind, reveals more than 100 artists that made it onto Bowie’s turntable.
David Bowie: Music Lover is a compelling mix of personal insight and expert commentary, jointly written by Bowie’s lifelong friend, collaborator and listening companion, Geoff MacCormack, and Jérôme Soligny, author of the seminal Rainbowman, who knew Bowie for 25 years.
From Classical to Britpop, Electronica to Delta Blues, the book explores Bowie’s eclectic playlist, redolent of the decades he lived through but also of his deep interest in all genres and eras of music. It’s a story that begins with Little Richard on Bowie’s childhood Dansette record player, and ends with Kendrick Lamar, a go-to listen during the recording of Blackstar, released just two days before he died.
An indispensable guide for Bowie fans and all Music Lovers.
Hi-Fi Horizons is the definitive visual tour of the fast growing listening bar movement. Spaces that trade thumping dance floors for velvet seats, sculpted speakers and reverent communal listening. From Tokyo’s historic jazz kissa to Dante’s Hi Fi in Miami, Zurich’s Kasheme, Honeycomb Hi Fi, Barcelona’s Curtis and Mexico City’s Café de Nadie, it gathers photographs of glowing turntables and rapt audiences. Curated and narrated by London DJ and tastemaker Killian “Don Grizz” Radtke, it traces vinyl focused sessions and intimate rooms that fuse design, cocktails and hospitality, giving people a reason to leave the house.
Perfect for readers of Dust & Grooves, Hi-Fi Horizons lists the curtain on the curators, DJs and designers redefining nightlife. No longer the preserve of “audiophiles,” these Hi-Fi havens lure diners, crate diggers and night owls alike, delivering club quality sound without the crush. Featuring 200 colour images, venue spotlights and insider commentary, it invites readers to slow down and rediscover music at its best.
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.
Few marques command the same reverence as Ferrari — a symbol of Italian artistry, innovation, and unrelenting pursuit of excellence. Since Enzo Ferrari founded the brand in 1947, the Prancing Horse has stood not just for performance, but for a way of life defined by style, emotion, and craftsmanship. The Essence of Ferrari Unfolded celebrates this spirit in all its forms — from the sculpted curves of the 250 GTO and LaFerrari to the precision engineering that turns mechanical movement into poetry. Through breathtaking photography and insightful storytelling, the book explores the DNA of Ferrari: design, speed, sound, and the people who live for them. It delves into the creative worlds of designers, drivers, engineers, and dreamers, capturing how Ferrari continues to merge technology and beauty in perfect harmony. Beyond the racetrack, the book unfolds Ferrari’s cultural impact — from haute couture collaborations and architectural icons to its influence on film, art, and design.
The brain is a miracle, a universe that appeals to everyone’s imagination, and one that neuroscientists never tire of exploring. And the more detailed our knowledge of it gets, the more technology advances that enables us to visualize what goes on inside the brain, the more fascinating and intriguing it becomes. This book, created at the Belgian Leuven Brain Institute (LBI), contains breathtaking and inspiring images and vivid text to reveal the current state of international brain research. It features contributions from world-class researchers, full of facts and unique insights.