Books from Phaidon Press

  • Where to Drink Coffee
    By Liz Clayton, Avidan Ross

    Where to Drink Coffee is the insider's guide. The best 150 baristas and coffee experts share their secrets - 600 spots across 50 countries - revealing where they go for coffee throughout the world.

  • Living in Color: Color in Contemporary Interior Design
    By Phaidon Press

    Featuring 200 interiors from 130 designers, and showcasing 27 residential room types from a wide variety of home environments and styles, including living, dining, sleeping, and bathing spaces, in locations around the world, this is the ...

  • It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book
    By Paul Arden

    If you want to succeed in life or business, this book is a must. "

  • The Artist's Body
    By Tracey Warr

    A survey of the use of the artist's body in 20th-century art.

  • The Nature of Photographs: A Primer
    By Stephen Shore

    This books serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way.

  • Our World: A First Book of Geography
    By Sue Lowell Gallion

    A read-aloud introduction to geography for young children that, when opened and folded back, creates a freestanding globe Children are invited to identify and experience the Earth's amazing geography through rhyming verse and lush ...

  • 20th-century Composers
    By Michael Oliver

    In this masterly biography, the author creates a portrait of a great artist and discusses the contradictions of his quintessential Englishness and his world stature, his outsider status and his...

  • Bruce Nauman: The True Artist
    By Peter Plagens

    Since then, Plagens has pursued a real understanding of his friend’s art. The book chronicles Nauman’s process, from the creation of works in his New Mexico studio to the organization, installation, and reception of his exhibitions.

  • The Art Book
    By Editors of Phaidon Press

    Depicts five hundred paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the present, each by a different artist, in alphabetical order by artist, with a brief description of the work and its place in art history and in the artist's career.

  • The American Art Book
    By Editors of Phaidon Press

    Presents five hundred artists and their works, ranging from Puritanist portraits and the luminous paintings of the Hudson River School to the digital works of today's Conceptual artists, arranged in alphabetical order.

  • Jackson Pollock: Phaidon Focus
    By Helen Harrison

    The perfect introduction to the life and work of Jackson Pollock.

  • Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint And Wasn't Sorry.
    By Fausto Gilberti

    Fausto Gilberti brings movement, life, and whimsy to the true life story of one of the most important contemporary artists of our time.

  • Soft Water Hard Stone: 2021 New Museum Triennial
    By Margot Norton, Jamillah James

    This book includes essays by prominent curators and interviews with each of the artists and collectives featured in the exhibition. accompanies the New Museum's much-anticipated fifth Triennial exhibition, opening in October 2021 in New ...

  • The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom
    By Antony Eastmond

    A celebration of 300 of the finest works of art and expressions of the Christian faith from the millennium between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance.

  • The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
    By Phaidon Press

    A condensed version of the information contained in the ground breaking Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or...

  • 20th-Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas
    By Editors of Phaidon

    Global investigation of 20th-century architecture, 750+ masterpieces richly illustrated.

  • Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World
    By Phaidon Editors

    Explore the stars and planets and beyond through 300 fascinating images – an international panel of experts take you on a journey through man's record of the universe – from ancient cave paintings to animation.

  • Wallpaper* City Guide Venice
    By Wallpaper*

    In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer.

  • Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016

    In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.

  • Japan: The Cookbook
    By Nancy Singleton Hachisu

    The definitive, home cooking recipe collection from one of the most respected and beloved culinary cultures Japan: The Cookbook has more than 400 sumptuous recipes by acclaimed food writer Nancy Singleton Hachisu.