Big ideas for small buildingsOver the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduce...
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected,...
An anthology of cult magazine Sneaker FreakerBack in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Frea...
Backstage pass to the Fab FourIn early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London’s Daily Express, who asked him to cover the Beatles’ t...
Transformative VisionsAn illustrated history of the Twelve Step programDrawing on art, literature, and scientific research, scholar and therapist Kikan Massara delves into the Twe...
The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous pass...
A visual history of the world’s magic megalopolisWalt Disney dreamed for decades about opening the ultimate entertainment venue, but it wasn’t until the early 1950s that his handp...
Helmut and June Newton's Legendary Joint ProjectA fifty-five-year history of life and loveThis is a photographic love story tracing the fifty-five years of collaboration, partners...
Before there was Instagram, there was WarholAndy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, h...
A unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbr...
The official illustrated history of Depeche Mode by Dutch artist Anton CorbijnIn November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepti...
Salvador Dalí’s surrealist cookbook“Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters w...
Man Ray, multitalented master of modernist imageryMan Ray (1890–1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in pho...
The winning packaging designs from the 2021 and 2022 PentawardsIn our seventh edition of The Package Design Book, we explore the world’s leading packaging design innovations from ...
An encyclopedic guide to the biggest-breasted stars past and presentThe Big Book of Breasts was an immediate best seller when it debuted in 2006. Its 396 pages introduced readers to the...
The complete Little Nemo compilationMeet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century. The master creation of Winsor McCay (18...
Journey back to early 20th-century Italy“You may have the universe,” composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, “if I can have Italy.” Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi&rsqu...
Cook, Meet, Picture, EatMary McCartney dishes out her favorite recipes for friends, family, and visionariesMary McCartney is a photographer, filmmaker, TV cook and author. In Feed...
An homage to workers and a farewell to the world of manual laborSebastião Salgado’s photo book classic Workers. An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (first published in 199...
The deceptively simple lemon takes center stage in the second volume of TASCHEN’s collaboration with The Gourmand, masters of the rich intersection of food and art. The star of Renaissance ga...