
William L. Coleman
The most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most personal friendships, and yielding some of his most iconic paintings.
158 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignNicholas Fox Weber
In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s.
521 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignLynn Gumpert, Marianne Le Morvan, Anne Grace, Stéphane Aquin, Claire Bernardi, Robert Parker, Charles Dellheim, Sophie Eloy, Kirsten Pai Buick, Ambre Gauthier
This book offers a rich introduction to the life and work of art dealer Berthe Weill—the risk-taking, rule-breaking facilitator of the modernist art movement in Paris.
205 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignRobyn Asleson
A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris
277 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignSimon Jenkins
Historian Simon Jenkins has traveled the length and breadth of Britain to select this joyous celebration of social history. With his usual insight and authority, he describes the history, geography, design, and significance of each of these glories; explores their role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects, and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the development, triumphs, and follies of these very British creations.
326 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignMolly Lester
Building Ghosts features more than 100 striking contemporary color photographs and a deeply researched narrative about Philadelphia’s buildings, neighborhoods, and the ghosts that reveal new truths and provocations about the changing city. Photographs by Michael Bixler
270 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignRabih Alameddine
In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition.
82 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignVanessa Grossman
The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France.
276 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignSarah Archer, Colin Fanning, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore, Emily Zilber
Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of innovative woodwork and sculpture, embodying his influence on American art and design. Principal photography by Joshua McHugh.
221 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignErwin Rowland, Laura Schenone
David Rowland was a pioneering Mid-Century designer. Born in 1924 in Hollywood, California, he studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His elegant, perfectly engineered 40/4 chair is one of the most significant and masterful designs of the 20th century.
239 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignMark H. Hough
A dynamic look at landscape design that reflects its status as an art form that is ever changing, never static.
370 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignAaron Betsky
In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuse.
222 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignWitold Rybczynski
The renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.
235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignYuval Etgar (Editor)
The Ends of Collage anthologizes texts on collage ranging from the early 20th century to the present. The theoretical motivations that precipitated the emergence of collage are placed in conversation with those that expanded the medium beyond its traditional limits in the late 1970s, with the rise of digital culture.
235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignCésar Aira
Preface by Roberto Bolaño
An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.
87 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignFreya Gowrley
A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today.
399 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignDC Helmuth, Nancy Pearl
Discover 50 of the world's most magnificent hidden libraries - each with a unique and uplifting story to tell - featuring a foreword by librarian, bestselling author, and literary critic Nancy Pearl.
207 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignPhilip Modiano
J. L. Petit: Britain's lost pre-impressionist
119 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignJuliet Carey (Editor), Abigail Green (Editor)
An exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them. Photographed by Hélène Binet.
351 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignNok Suntaranon, Natalie Jesionka
Bring the bold, spicy, beautiful world of Southern Thai cooking to your kitchen through recipes and stories from the James Beard Award–winning chef of Kalaya, as featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table.
287 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignLaurence Phillips
New from Bradt is the thoroughly updated fifth edition of Lille, the award-winning and critically acclaimed guidebook to this exciting, ever-changing and easily accessible city in Hauts-de-France – the ultimate destination for a European city break.
268 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignPatrick F. Cannon
A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan. Photographs by James Caulfield
288 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignDietrich Neumann
A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect.
438 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignNicholas Fox Weber
The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber
639 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignRenee Gladman
A book of ink drawings that regards language as an exposed nervous system, uncovering the moment whereby architecture emerges out of prose, the sentence becomes a drawing, and the act of writing narrative can be examined from bodily movements.
121 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignMelissa McGill
An artist’s restaging of a Venetian nautical tradition calls attention to the threats of climate change.
206 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignDavid Netto, Paul Goldberger, Peter Pennoyer
Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street.
303 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignSimon Jenkins
Jenkins shows that everyone is a consumer of architecture and makes the case for the importance of everyone learning to speak its language. A Short History of British Architecture is a celebration of British national treasures, a lament of their failures – and a call to arms.
311 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignAllener M. Baker-Rogers, Fasaha M. Traylor
Meet some of Philadelphia’s fiercest black women leaders. They range from the first black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694)—who ran a ferry business during colonial times—to the woman whose childhood experiences led her to become a surgeon and medical advisor to celebrities.
620 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignDavid Serlin
A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture.
237 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignPhilip Jodidio
Individual architects & architectural firms. Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed numerous structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (which the New York Times called "the most important new building in America since the Cold War"), the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Guangzhou Opera House, her first completed project in China, and the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympics.
96 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & DesignPhilip Jodidio
Based on the massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an accessible edition covering Hadid’s complete works, including ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and Hadid’s own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe.
491 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design