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  • magazinefashion

    A Magazine Curated By #21 - Lucie and Luke Meier

    Lucie and Luke Meier (Guest Curators)

    A Publisher BVBA, Antwerp, Belgium

    Issue #21 of 'A Magazine Curated By,' a prestigious art and fashion publication, curated by Lucie and Luke Meier, the creative directors of Jil Sander. The issue explores themes of nature, art, and fashion through photography, essays, and visual plates featuring artists, photographers, and designers including Brice Marden, Luc Tuymans, Joseph Beuys, and many others. The cover is made from handmade washi paper with wildflower inclusions by Kazuyuki Tomi from the Noto Peninsula, Japan, 2020.

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  • magazinefashion

    A Magazine Curated By Erdem (No. 24)

    Erdem Moralioglu (Guest Curator)

    A Publisher BVBA, Antwerp, Belgium

    Issue No. 24 of 'A Magazine Curated By', a renowned fashion publication where each issue is guest-curated by a different fashion designer. This edition is curated by Erdem Moralioglu of the fashion house Erdem, published in 2022. The issue explores themes of queer history, costume, identity and artistic references, featuring contributions from Glenn Close, Cindy Sherman, Michael Stipe, Neil Tennant, Sally Potter, and many others, with cover photography by Ethan James Green.

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  • magazinefashion

    A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela

    Maison Martin Margiela (Guest Curator)

    A Publisher BVBA

    This is the first issue of 'A Magazine Curated By', a limited-edition reprint (2021) of the original 2004 publication, guest curated by Maison Martin Margiela. The magazine features contributions from numerous photographers, artists, and designers associated with or inspired by Margiela's world, with recurring 'WHITE' sections punctuating the content. The cover features paint color swatches arranged in the shape of an 'A', reflecting Margiela's signature minimalist and conceptual aesthetic.

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    A Magazine Curated By Peter Do — N°26

    Peter Do (Guest Curator)

    A Publisher SAS, Paris, France

    A Magazine Curated By is a renowned fashion publication where each issue is entirely conceived and curated by a different fashion designer or creative figure. Issue N°26 is curated by Vietnamese-American fashion designer Peter Do, featuring contributions from photographers, writers, and creatives with a strong Vietnamese cultural presence including Ocean Vuong, Trần Anh Hùng, and others. The cover features a close-up of dark, layered fabric forming an abstract 'A' shape, photographed by Sergiy Barchuk.

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  • magazinefashion

    A Magazine Curated By Sacai (#25)

    Chitose Abe (Guest Curator)

    A Publisher BVBA, Brussels, Belgium

    Issue #25 of 'A Magazine Curated By,' a prestigious fashion publication where each edition is guest-curated by a notable designer or brand. This edition is curated by Chitose Abe of the Japanese fashion brand Sacai, featuring contributions from artists, photographers, architects, musicians, and creatives including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hank Willis Thomas, Lawrence Weiner, Sou Fujimoto, and many others. The magazine blends fashion, art, food, architecture, and culture through the distinctive lens of Sacai's aesthetic universe.

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  • magazinefashion

    A Magazine Curated By Thom Browne

    Thom Browne (Guest Curator)

    A Publisher bvba, Antwerp, Belgium

    A Magazine Curated By is a fashion publication where each issue is guest-curated by a prominent fashion designer; this edition (#15, 2016) is curated by American designer Thom Browne. The issue explores themes of death, mourning, and memory through fashion, art, and culture, featuring contributions from notable figures including Rick Owens, Martha Stewart, Baz Luhrmann, Daniel Arsham, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Do Ho Suh among others. The minimalist white cover features a large geometric 'A' rendered in thin black lines, reflecting Thom Browne's restrained aesthetic sensibility.

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  • bookphotography

    A Visual Inventory

    John Pawson

    Phaidon

    A Visual Inventory is a curated collection of 272 personally annotated photographs taken by renowned minimalist architect John Pawson, drawn from his archive of over a quarter million digital images. The photographs, arranged as pairs, document patterns, textures, forms, materials, and spatial arrangements encountered during his travels and work around the world. None of the images have been cropped or altered, offering readers an intimate look into Pawson's visual curiosity and design sensibility.

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  • bookother

    Afghan Pamir Trekking Route Survey

    Gyula Simonyi (Principal Cartographer), Jan Chipchase (Production Design)

    Field Institute, Tokyo / Studio D Radiodurans

    A detailed trekking and bikepacking route map of the Afghan Pamir region, part of a multi-year mapping project by Studio D Radiodurans. Ground data was collected during expedition seasons from late June through September by expedition cartographers and team members. The map uses Universal Transverse Mercator UTM zone 43N projection and incorporates data from digital elevation models, OpenStreetMap, and the GLIMS Glacier Database.

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  • magazineart

    AKT magazine Issue 2

    Jessy Van Durme & Piet-Albert Goerthals

    AKT magazine

    AKT is a Belgian bi-annual art and culture magazine subtitled 'a kind tribute', published from Kortrijk, Belgium. Issue 2 features minimalist photography and design aesthetics, with the cover depicting a small cylindrical object balanced on a human arm. The magazine explores themes at the intersection of art, body, and materiality.

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  • magazineart

    AKT Magazine Issue 3

    Jesse Van Durme & Piet-Albert Goethals

    AKT Magazine

    AKT is a Belgian annual art and culture magazine, with Issue 3 published in 2020. The magazine covers a wide range of creative disciplines including fine art, sculpture, fashion design, architecture, and photography, featuring artists and designers such as Elvis Pompilio, Marc Merckx, Vincent Van Duysen, and others. The cover features an expressive blue-toned painted portrait in a style reminiscent of early 20th century modernism.

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  • magazinephotography

    AKT Magazine Issue IV

    Jessy Van Durme & Piet-Albert Goethals

    AKT Magazine

    AKT is an annual Belgian art and photography publication, now in its fourth issue. The cover features a striking motion-blurred photograph of a figure in an orange garment with a green-painted face, suggesting a focus on experimental and conceptual photography. Published by Jessy Van Durme and Piet-Albert Goethals, the magazine is printed in Belgium by die Keure on FSC certified uncoated paper.

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  • bookdesign

    Arranging Things

    Colin King (written with Sam Cochran)

    Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

    Arranging Things is a visually driven interior design and styling book by Colin King, published by Rizzoli in 2023. The book explores the art of curating and composing objects within living spaces, organized into eight chapters covering themes such as Parameters, Objects in Dialogue, The Art of Emptiness, Natural Poise, From the Shadows, Vivid Details, Tactile Expressions, and Signs of Life. With a foreword by Robin Standefer, it features photography by numerous contributors and presents a refined, minimalist aesthetic sensibility.

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  • bookphotography

    Atmosphere in the Solarium

    Masato Tadatomo

    A photography book by Japanese photographer Masato Tadatomo, featuring intimate black-and-white imagery including close-up studies of flowers such as roses. The minimalist kraft paper cover and fine art printing style suggest a contemplative, atmospheric work exploring themes of light, stillness, and organic form. The title evokes a warm, sunlit interior space and suggests a meditative quality throughout the work.

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  • bookdesign

    Axel Vervoordt: Living with Light

    Text by Michael Gardner, Photography by Laziz Hamani

    Flammarion

    This volume presents fifteen bespoke interiors designed by the Axel Vervoordt Company, showcasing the art of harmonious living through the use of natural light as an essential design element. The featured properties span locations from New York to London, Munich, Italy, Provence, and Portugal, blending natural materials—water, metal, wood—with a modern aesthetic, fine art, and antiques. Photography by Laziz Hamani captures the unique design details and timeless interiors that define the Vervoordt style.

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  • bookart

    Cai Guo-Qiang: Ramble in the Cosmos — From Primeval Fireball Onward

    Cai Guo-Qiang (Editor-in-Chief); contributors: Eriko Osaka, Takashi Serizawa, Wu Hung

    Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. / Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Co., Ltd.

    This is the official exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang held at The National Art Center, Tokyo, from June 29 to August 21, 2023. The book documents the artist's career from his early gunpowder works, including the landmark 'Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects' (1991), through his subsequent explosion events and installations. It is a bilingual (Japanese/English) publication featuring plates, essays, artist biography, and an interview, co-organized with SAINT LAURENT.

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  • bookart

    Cy Twombly

    Kate Nesin (essay), Emily Wei Rales (introduction)

    Glenstone Museum

    This catalogue accompanies a long-term exhibition of five Cy Twombly sculptures at Glenstone Museum, published on the occasion of the opening of the Pavilions at Glenstone in 2018. It focuses on Twombly's singular body of sculpture made from quotidian materials such as wood, paint, metal, and found objects, unified by a delicate layer of white paint. The book includes an original essay by scholar Kate Nesin, never-before-published archival images from the artist's Italian studios courtesy of the Nicola Del Roscio Archives, and an introduction by Emily Wei Rales, founder and director of Glenstone.

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  • bookart

    Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam — A Painting in Ten Parts

    Cy Twombly

    Propyläen Verlag (Edition Heiner Bastian, Band V)

    This book documents Cy Twombly's monumental ten-part painting cycle 'Fifty Days at Iliam' (1977–1978), inspired by Homer's Iliad in Alexander Pope's translation. The work, created in Bassano in Teverina using oil, oil-crayon, and pencil on canvas with an overall dimension of 300x2582 cm, was first exhibited by The Lone Star Foundation in New York in November 1978. Published in Berlin in March 1979, the book includes reproductions of all ten panels and was also issued in a special limited edition of 60 copies bound in red leather, with 50 signed and numbered by Twombly.

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  • bookart

    Cy Twombly: Marocco 1952/1953

    Cy Twombly; texts by Tina Barouti, Anne-Grit Becker, Natalie Dupêcher

    Humboldt Books

    This catalog documents Cy Twombly's formative 1952-1953 journey to Morocco and North Africa, undertaken with Robert Rauschenberg following a traveling scholarship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It presents photographs taken with a Rolleiflex camera, sketches, and drawings from the trip preserved in the Cy Twombly Foundation and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio archives. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech (March 4 – July 2, 2023), the book explores Twombly's lesser-known affinity for Africa's Mediterranean shores and its influence on his artistic development.

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  • magazinedesign

    Design Anthology – Asia Edition, Issue 32

    Editor-in-Chief: Suzy Annetta

    Fifth Black Media Limited

    Design Anthology is a quarterly Asia-based magazine covering interiors, art, architecture, travel, and style. Issue 32 features a striking cover image of a pool courtyard with an oval skylight opening and lush greenery. Published by Fifth Black Media Limited and distributed across Asia, Europe, and beyond, it documents creative culture across the region.

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  • magazinedesign

    Design Anthology Issue 36

    Suzy Annetts (Editor-in-Chief), Simone Schultz (Managing Editor), Nina Milhaud (Editor)

    Fifth Black

    Design Anthology is a biannual design magazine published in its Asia Pacific Edition, covering interiors, art, architecture, travel, and style. Issue 36 features content on contemporary design across the Asia Pacific region, including a feature on a modernist tropical home in Bali. The magazine is distributed across Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and internationally.

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  • bookart

    Die Kassettenkataloge des Städtischen Museums Mönchengladbach 1967–1978 / The Box Catalogues of the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach 1967–1978

    Edited by Susanne Rennert & Susanne Titz

    Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln / Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach

    This comprehensive publication documents the 35 innovative box catalogues created by the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach under director Johannes Cladders between 1967 and 1978. Each box catalogue accompanied exhibitions by major artists including Joseph Beuys, Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, Lawrence Weiner, and many others. The book grew out of the exhibition and research project 'Von Da An. Räume, Werke, Vergegenwärtigungen des Antimuseums 1967–1978' held at Museum Abteiberg in 2017–2018.

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  • bookart

    Divine Wisdom (壮麗なる理知)

    Sekine Shun'ichi (supervised)

    London Gallery, Ltd.

    A bilingual (English/Japanese) catalog published in 2024 by London Gallery featuring esoteric Buddhist ritual implements, including bronze water vessels from the Heian and Kamakura periods. The book explores the sacred significance of these artifacts within Shingon and Tendai Buddhist practice, examining how ritual implements serve both functional and symbolic roles as representations of the buddhas themselves. The text includes an essay 'On the Subject of Esoteric Ritual Implements' by Sekine Shun'ichi, discussing the aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of these objects.

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  • bookart

    Georg Baselitz: Sofa Pictures (Sofabilder)

    Georg Baselitz (artist), Lynette Roth (text)

    White Cube

    This is an exhibition catalogue published by White Cube to accompany the Georg Baselitz exhibition 'Sofabilder/Sofa Pictures' held at White Cube Hong Kong from 24 May to 3 September 2022. The book documents a series of large-scale oil paintings and ink drawings on paper created in 2021, featuring figurative works with Baselitz's characteristic expressive gestural style. The catalogue includes an essay by Lynette Roth, curator at the Harvard Art Museums, and reproduces works with titles such as 'Die Frau mit der Kongomaske,' 'Im Bett über dem Sofa,' and 'Schwarzweiß im Bett.'

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  • bookart

    GEPÄCK/GEFÜHL

    Miriam Cahn

    Nieves

    A first edition artist book by Swiss painter Miriam Cahn, published by Nieves in 2025, courtesy of Meyer Riegger gallery, with photography by Heinz Pelz and lithography by Marjeta Morinc. The book features Cahn's characteristic raw, expressive drawings in pencil and red crayon, depicting figures in distressing and violent scenarios that address themes of power, vulnerability, and white supremacy. The back cover includes handwritten notes by the artist listing themes such as 'gepäck/gefühl' (baggage/feeling), 'schlafen' (sleeping), 'white supremacy porn', 'herumliegen' (lying around), and 'meine hände' (my hands).

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    Gustav Klimt: Drawings & Watercolours

    Rainer Metzger

    Thames & Hudson

    A comprehensive survey of Gustav Klimt's works on paper, focusing on his drawings and watercolours rather than his more famous paintings. The book brings together hundreds of Klimt's works exploring his taboo-breaking themes including the female nude, erotica, and homoeroticism, as well as allegorical and historical subjects. It also includes preparatory sketches and studies that served as foundations for his celebrated paintings, with 309 illustrations of which 282 are in colour.

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  • bookart

    If I must die, you must live

    Henk Visch, Mosab Abu Toha, Refaat Alareer

    Wako Works of Art Co., Ltd.

    A bilingual (English/Japanese) art publication curated by Dutch sculptor Henk Visch, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo (May 17 – June 29, 2024). The book contains six poems by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha selected from 'Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear: Poems from Gaza,' an essay on poetry of resistance, and the famous poem 'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet and academic killed in Gaza in 2023. The cover features a photograph of Henk Visch's bronze sculpture 'Que suis-je? (Montaigne)' (2023).

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  • magazinephotography

    Inside-Out No. 223

    Zhipeng LIN

    Revolution Star Publishing and Creation Co., Ltd.

    Inside-Out No. 223 is a Taiwanese photography publication featuring fashion and fine art photography, published in May 2012. The issue contains artistic portrait and fashion photography with a distinctive editorial style.

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  • bookdesign

    Interiors: Atelier AM

    Alexandra & Michael Misczynski, photographs by François Halard

    Rizzoli International Publications

    A interior design monograph showcasing the work of Atelier AM, the Los Angeles-based design studio founded by Alexandra and Michael Misczynski. The book features photography by renowned photographer François Halard and includes a foreword by Axel Vervoordt and text by Mayer Rus. It presents the studio's signature aesthetic of refined, layered interiors that blend antique and contemporary elements with an emphasis on texture, materiality, and understated luxury.

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    KASAI Kaoru 1968

    Keoru Kasai

    ADP Company | Art Design Publishing

    A comprehensive monograph on Japanese graphic designer Kaoru Kasai, born in 1968, showcasing his extensive body of work across graphics and advertising. The book is organized into two main sections covering graphics (including CI, signs, museum and gallery work, theatre, cinema, book design, and stationery) and advertising (featuring campaigns for major clients such as Suntory Oolong Tea, United Arrows, Seibu Department Store, Sony, and Suntory). The cover art is by Gianluigi Toccafondo from United Arrows 'lungo 2005', and the book was first published in 2010 with a third printing in 2021.

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  • bookphotography

    Koechlin House

    Daisuke Hirabayashi

    MACK

    A photography book by Daisuke Hirabayashi documenting the Koechlin House, an architecturally significant modernist residence. The book features Hirabayashi's images accompanied by texts by Tibor Bielicky, Ellena Ehrl, and Nicolas Jérôme Hünerwadel. Published in 2023 as a first edition by MACK, the cover image suggests an atmospheric, plant-filled interior space with glass walls characteristic of mid-century modern architecture.

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  • bookart

    KÖNNTEICHSEIN

    Miriam Cahn

    Nieves

    An artist book by Swiss painter Miriam Cahn, published by Nieves in 2025 as a first edition. The book reproduces drawings and works on paper featuring figurative imagery rendered in charcoal and colored pencil, exploring themes of the body, identity, and vulnerability. The title 'KÖNNTEICHSEIN' is German for 'could be me,' reflecting Cahn's empathetic and politically engaged artistic practice.

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  • bookart

    Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.

    Louise Bourgeois

    Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. / Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Co., Ltd.

    This is the exhibition catalogue for the comprehensive retrospective of Louise Bourgeois held at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (September 25, 2024 – January 19, 2025), the first major survey of her work in Japan in twenty-seven years. Featuring 106 works including 51 sculptures and 34 paintings and drawings, the exhibition is organized around three chapters exploring themes of motherhood, emotional conflict, and psychological repair. The catalogue includes essays, artwork documentation, and bilingual (Japanese/English) texts exploring Bourgeois's psychoanalytically informed artistic practice spanning over seventy years.

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  • bookarchitecture

    Mies van der Rohe

    Yoshihiko Ueda (photographs)

    Kajima Institute Publishing

    A photography book documenting the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with photographs by Japanese photographer Yoshihiko Ueda. The book covers three iconic Mies van der Rohe buildings: Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1951), Barcelona Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain (1929), and Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic (1930). Published in Japan with bilingual content, the book was priced at ¥10,000 and carries ISBN 978-4-306-09419-2.

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  • bookart

    Newspaper

    Steve Lawrence, Peter Hujar, Andrew Ullrick (editors); Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez (2023 editor)

    Primary Information

    A facsimile collection of all fourteen issues of 'Newspaper,' a wordless, picture-only periodical originally published in New York City between 1968 and 1971. Edited by Steve Lawrence with Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick, it featured the work of over forty artists including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, and many others, blending high and low culture with a focus on contemporary American society and an emerging queer artistic community. This 2023 edition, compiled and edited by Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez, brings together all issues for the first time in book form.

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  • magazineother

    Notebook - Issue 8: Shoestring Spaghetti

    Daniel Kasman (Editor-in-Chief)

    MUBI, Inc.

    Notebook is a film magazine published by MUBI, the curated streaming platform for cinema. Issue 8, titled 'Shoestring Spaghetti,' features content related to cinema and film culture, with the cover depicting what appears to be Charlie Chaplin in a classic scene from 'The Gold Rush' (1925). The magazine includes editorial, critical, and visual content about films and filmmaking, printed in Italy by Longo AG and first published in 2025.

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  • magazineother

    Notebook: Threshold of the Visible — Issue 7

    Daniel Kasman (Editor-in-Chief)

    MUBI, Inc.

    MUBI Notebook is a film culture magazine published by the streaming platform MUBI, with Issue 7 themed around 'The Unfilmable' — exploring cinema that never was, or should have been. The issue features contributions from filmmakers, critics, and artists including Yoko Ono, Guy Maddin, Mark Leyner, and others, examining topics such as censorship, frame rates, UFOs on film, and the limits of what cameras can capture. The cover features photographs by Deborah Stratman from her 'Whiteouts' series.

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  • magazinearchitecture

    Openhouse Issue N°23

    Andrew Troner & Mari Luz Vidal (Founders & Editors)

    Openhouse Publishing SL

    Openhouse is a biannual architecture, design, and lifestyle magazine published in Barcelona. Issue N°23, themed 'The Secret in Their Eyes,' features photography and editorial content exploring spaces and people including Monica Patiño's kitchen in Mexico City, Taliesin West House in Arizona, Nomos Hotel in Rome, and various design studios and residences worldwide. The issue includes contributions from photographers such as Yosigo, Romain Laprade, and Salva López, alongside profiles of figures like Enrique Olvera and Mariana Schmidt.

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  • bookphotography

    Other Thing

    Craig Mod

    Special Projects

    Other Thing is the third book in Craig Mod's 'How to Walk Japan' series, focusing on the people encountered along the Kii Peninsula — fishermen, repairwomen, inn owners, AMA divers, priests, mountain ascetics, and cafe folk. Published in Tokyo/Kamakura in 2025, the book combines photography (shot on film) with travel writing documenting walks through rural Japan. This is a signed, limited first edition, numbered 0207 of 1200 copies.

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  • magazineother

    rakesprogress #9

    Victoria Gaiger, Tom Loxley (Editors)

    Loxley Gaiger Ltd

    Rakesprogress is a quarterly independent magazine subtitled 'The Art of Gardens, Plants and Flowers,' covering horticulture, botany, and garden culture from an artistic and literary perspective. Issue #9 (Volume 9) features articles on topics ranging from florist farmers, garden design, and botanical art to nature writing and plant-related cultural stories. The cover features a striking still-life photograph of spiky cucumbers and dark seed pods shot at Bronze Age Studio, South Africa.

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  • bookart

    Riverbed

    Olafur Eliasson

    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

    This is the exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Olafur Eliasson's 'Riverbed' exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, running from 20 August 2014 to 4 January 2015. The book documents Eliasson's large-scale immersive installation that recreated a rocky riverbed landscape inside the museum's gallery spaces. The cover features abstract calligraphic brushwork on a cream background, with curators including Poul Erik Tejner, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Marie Laurberg, and Caroline Eggel.

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    Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty (シンプルなかたち展:美はどこからくるのか)

    Nanjo Fumio (Director, Mori Art Museum), Jean de Loisy, Sandra Adam-Couralet

    Mori Art Museum / Heibonsha Ltd., Publishers

    This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty,' held at the Mori Art Museum (53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower) from April 25 to July 5, 2015, co-organized with Centre Pompidou-Metz and Fondation d'entreprise Hermès. The exhibition features approximately 130 works spanning art both old and new from East and West, organized into nine sections including Metaphysical Landscapes, Cosmos and Moon, Mechanical Forms, and Enigma. The catalogue explores the universal aesthetic of simple forms found across nature, primitive art, folk art, traditional crafts, and modern art from around the world.

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  • bookarchitecture

    Sun Seekers: The Cure of California

    Lyra Kilston

    Atelier Editions

    Sun Seekers: The Cure of California by Lyra Kilston explores the history of California as a destination for health, wellness, and utopian living, examining how the state's climate and landscape shaped its architecture and culture. The book investigates the migration of people to California seeking physical and spiritual renewal, and how this influenced the design of spaces and structures. Published in 2019 by Atelier Editions in a limited edition of 3000 copies, it blends architectural history with cultural narrative.

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  • bookarchitecture

    The Monocle Companion: Fifty Ideas on Architecture, Design and Building Better

    Editors: Josh Fehnert & Nic Monisse; contributors include Gabriele Dellisanti, Kaisa Karvinen, Trung Mai, Mathias Agbo Jr, Christoph Heisse, Chaipong Chuenrudeemol, Tosin Oshinowo, Clémence Althabegoïty, Chiara Rinella, Carlo Ratti, Zenon Radewych, Matt Sykes, Joseph Grima, Laura Rysman, Fiona Wilson, Sonia Zhuravlyova, Aziza Aboualem, Michelle Deleа, Demas Nwoko, Hady Sanad, Peter Pichler, Nic Monisse, Manuel Orazi, Ferdinand Ludwig, Fabiola Büchele, Jeanne Autran-Edarh, Alejandro Aravena, Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara, Hashim Sarkis

    Monocle (Winkontent Limited)

    This is Issue 05 of the Monocle Companion series, a Venice Architecture Biennale Special published in 2025. It presents fifty essays, opinions, recommendations, and ideas on architecture, design, and building better, featuring insights from writers, designers, and thinkers on topics ranging from building with lava to space exploration. The book covers themes including urban design, creativity, construction, sustainability, and the built environment.

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  • bookart

    The Plant Collection

    Inge Meijer

    Roma Publications, Amsterdam

    A research-based publication documenting the history of plants in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, exploring how living plants were integrated into the museum's galleries alongside artworks. The book investigates the curatorial philosophy behind placing plants in art spaces, tracing this practice from museum director Willem Sandberg's era onward, with archival black-and-white photographs showing plants displayed alongside works by artists such as Mondrian and Frank Stella. Published as Roma Publication 362 in 2019, with a first edition of 800 copies.

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    Toxic Garden

    AN+ (Avital Gourary, Natanel Elfassy, Maya Ifergan, Amir Hertz, Sonya Astrina, Charles Weinberg)

    AN+

    Toxic Garden is an art book produced by the collective AN+ in collaboration with the Herbarium of The National Natural History Collections at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The book features photography by Aviad Bar Ness, a poem by Charles Fox, and a postcard by Cecilia Azcarate, exploring the aesthetic and conceptual world of toxic or poisonous plants through herbarium specimens. It is a limited first edition of 400 copies, printed in France.

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    Transmissions: Sound & Image

    Jim Buell

    A 2023 artist book by Jim Buell exploring the intersection of sound and image through Slow-Scan Television (SSTV) technology, the same method used to transmit the first Apollo 11 moon landing images. The book reproduces photographic images of scenes encoded and decoded via SSTV audio signals, intentionally welcoming visual noise and distortion rather than seeking clarity. It is typeset in Aeonik, printed on white 100KG March Colors paper with a silver 110KG New Color R paper cover.

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  • magazinephotography

    UNION Issue No. 16

    Hiroyuki Kubo (Editor-in-Chief)

    Union Publishing Limited

    UNION is a Tokyo-based photography and fashion magazine, Issue No. 16 featuring work by ten contributing photographers including Charlotte Lapalus, Vivian Maier, Julia Hetta, and others. The issue contains photo essays with titles such as 'Vacances', 'Those Were The Days', 'Portraits', 'Berlin, Paris And...', 'Radio Tower', 'In Time', 'Fårö', 'Cobalt Hour', 'Self-Portraits', and 'Days'. Printed in Japan in 2021, it is distributed internationally by Antenne Books Limited and presented in a hardcover linen-bound format.

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    UNION Magazine Issue No. 17

    Hiroyuki Kubo (Editor-in-Chief)

    Union Publishing Limited, Tokyo, Japan

    Union Magazine Issue No. 17 is a high-end fashion photography publication based in Tokyo, Japan, featuring editorial work by a roster of international photographers including Charlotte Lapalus, Clara Balzary, Ben Weller, Reiko Toyama, Julia Hetta, Quentin de Briey, and others. The issue contains twelve photographic editorial spreads with titles such as 'Niolon Forever,' 'Hourglass,' 'Tatami Room,' 'Sandy,' and 'Manchester,' among others. Published in 2022 and printed in Japan, the magazine is distributed internationally through Antenne Books Limited.

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  • magazinefashion

    Union Magazine Issue No. 18

    Hiroyuki Kubo (Editor-in-Chief)

    Union Publishing Limited

    Union Magazine Issue No. 18 is a Japanese fashion and photography publication published in 2023, featuring editorial photography by an international roster of photographers including Mark Steinmetz, Jack Davison, Reiko Toyama, Sarah van Rij, Seishi Shirakawa, and others. The issue contains 11 editorial features spanning pages 6 through 183, each titled with poetic names such as 'Don't Forget Your Umbrella on a Sunny Day' and 'If it's Rainy, You Won't See Me'. Published in Tokyo and distributed internationally through Antenne Books, it presents a refined, artistic approach to fashion imagery with a notably understated aesthetic.

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    When the Sky Blooms with Sakura

    Cai Guo-Qiang

    Saint Laurent / SL/40 Editions

    This book documents Cai Guo-Qiang's pyrotechnic artwork 'When the Sky Blooms with Sakura', a large-scale fireworks event staged in Iwaki, Japan on June 26, 2023, in which pink smoke and explosive trails recreated the ephemeral beauty of cherry blossoms in the sky. The project was commissioned by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent as part of the fashion house's arts patronage program. Published as a limited edition of 500 copies, the book captures the fleeting spectacle through stunning photography of pink pyrotechnic clouds against a blue sky.

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    叢 Qusamura

    Qusamura

    A catalog/lookbook for Qusamura (叢), a Japanese plant and botanical art studio with locations in Hiroshima and Tokyo. The publication documents their plant installations, interior botanical art works, and retail spaces, including projects at KIRO Hiroshima THE SHARE HOTELS and the opening of Qusamura Tokyo in Daikanyama in 2019. The studio is known for treating plants as art objects, combining succulents, cacti, and tropical plants in artistic arrangements displayed as if in a plant museum.

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