This book offers a unique overview of wood as the main construction material for residential buildings worldwide, and introduces architects, interior designers, and builders to the diversity of contemporary timber architecture.

Photographer Angus Stewart has spent ten years backstage with London's burlesque community, getting to know the performers and documenting their shared world to create what he calls 'a family album'.

Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid, featuring work by distinguished international architects and artists, such as Andrea Zittel, Gramazio Kohler Research, Jean Prouve, John Armleder, Kengo Kuma, Kerim Seiler etc. Text in English and French.

Tilla Durieux (1880-1971) war gefeierter Theater- und Filmstar, moderne Frau der 1920er-Jahre, politisch engagierte Zeitgenossin und galt als die am meisten porträtierte Frau ihrer Epoche. Ihre Rollen waren ebenso vielfältig wie auch die Liste der Künstler*innen, denen sie Modell saß: unter ihnen Auguste Renoir, Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth, Franz von Stuck, Charley Toorop, Ernst Barlach, August Gaul, Mary Duras, Emil Orlik, Sasha Stone, Oskar Kokoschka, Olaf Gulbransson, Max Oppenheimer o...

The first book devoted solely to William John Kennedy's friendship with Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, an intimate glance at their lives before they found fame.

One of America's most iconic stars, seen through the lens of five top celebrity photographers: Milton Greene, Terry O'Neill, Eva Sereny, Al Satterwhite, Lawrence Fried and Douglas Kirkland.

Updated and expanded Dedicated to the entire history of feminist artworks on an international scale, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

This volume aims to re-examine and reassess the importance of Impressionist collectors in the political, social and economic contexts of their times through the contributions of 16 international specialists.

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Nirgendwo sonst wie in »mónos« kommen sich Hütten und Paläste so nahe. Vincenzo Pagliucas Buch ist ein architektonischer B-Movie, der im südlichen Apennin spielt. Die von ihm fotografierten alleinstehenden Bauten sind einfache Häuser, zusammengesetzt aus den elementaren geometrischen Formen. Doch manche der rudimentären Behausungen wirken wie pastellene Miniaturparodien historischer oder gar avantgardistischer Bauten. Sie scheinen wie aus den Fugen ge...

The second expanded and updated edition of a bestselling book that presents the world's most expensive watches.