Books from Phaidon Press
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The Art of Looking Sideways
By Alan FletcherA primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, trivia, oddities, serious science, jokes and ...
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Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography
By Elias RedstoneA visual survey of contemporary artists’ photography of architecture, featuring the work of Andreas Gursky, Iwan Baan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and more.
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Modern Art in America 1908-68
By William C. AgeeAgee also integrates the work of certain European artists who became central to modern American art.
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Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
Features a collection of the author's oil and watercolor portraits of young people across historical periods and social status, along with photographs that inspired some of the portraits.
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The Best of Nest: Celebrating the Extraordinary Interiors from Nest Magazine
By Todd OldhamThe Best of Nest, created by master bookmaker and former fashion designer Todd Oldham, includes selections from all 26 issues in a series of portfolios featuring the work of iconic writers and photographers such as Michael Cunningham, Patti ...
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Dada & Surrealism A&i
By Matthew GaleIn the 1940s the Mandragora group around Braulio Arenas and Enrique Gomez Correa emerged in Santiago de Chile , distinguishing Surrealism from the Stalinism of the poet Pablo Neruda . In Buenos Aires the flavour of the movement was ...
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Dürer: Colour Library
By Martin BaileyFrom Manual of Measurement allow me to meet Dr Martin Luther , I will diligently draw his likeness for an engraving , so as to keep alive the memory of this Christian man , who has helped me in moments of great anxiety , ' the artist ...
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Designs of William Morris
By Editors of Phaidon PressA miniature edition of William Morris designs.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
By Robert McCarterAn extensive selection of archival drawings and photographs, clear redrawn plans and colour photographs, together with a complete chronology of Wright's buildings and projects, compiled by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director of the Frank Lloyd ...
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Land & Environmental Art
By Brian Wallis, Jeffrey KastnerThis text fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement as well as surveying later examples of the environmental art to the present day. It includes photographs, sketches & project notes.
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Early Christian & Byzantine Art: A&I
By John LowdenExplains how and why Early Christian and Byzantine art was made and used
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Philip Treacy by Kevin Davies
Presents a photographic look at the hat designer's life, work, and creative process.
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Cecily Brown
By Francine Prose, Courtney J. Martin, Jason RosenfeldCecily Brown is a British-born, New York-based artist who rose to prominence in the late 1990s.
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Uta Barth
By Matthew HiggsThe definitive look at one of the most influential artists using photography today.
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Oxford Museum: Deane and Woodward
By Trevor GarnhamLaunched in 1991, the Architecture in Detail series attracted immediate acclaim and now comprises more than sixty titles. These books are highly collectable documents, each focusing on a celebrated building.
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The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adrià
By Ferran AdriàThis is the cookbook by Ferran Adria everyone has been waiting for, it is sure to be one of the most talked out and popular cookbooks of the season.
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A Day at elBulli
By Ferran Adrià, Albert Adrià, Juli SolerThe book starts with daybreak at 6.15 am, then shows visits to the local markets to source ingredients from 7.00 am, Ferran's arrival at the workshop, his morning creative experimentation session, the arrival of the rest of the brigade at 2 ...
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The Origins of Cooking: Palaeolithic and Neolithic Cooking
By ElbullifoundationAn in-depth exploration of the birth of cooking, as charted by leading authority and iconic chef Ferran Adrià's elBullifoundation Using Ferran Adrià's unique 'Sapiens' methodology, this extraordinary book examines in comprehensive detail ...
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What Is Cooking
By Ferran AdriàPacked with images from Adriá's legendary restaurant elBulli, his unique personal sketches, and explanatory diagrams that are used in his lectures, this book revolutionizes the way we look at how we prepare what we eat.
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Coffee Sapiens: Innovation through understanding
By Adrià FerranThis is the perfect companion for those who want to approach the worlds of coffee and gastronomy from a practical and intellectual point of view, either as a culinary professional or a curious coffee enthusiast.