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For 26 years House + House Architects have created intimate, personal architecture. This new monograph documents the firm's recent residential work in California, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and examines their design process through exploratory sketches and exquisite photography. Cathi and Steven House's extensive travels throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, with focused studies in the Mediterranean and Mexico, have molded them into architects with poetic insight into the use of light and shadow, movement and pause, place and embrace.

In their humane and handcrafted modernism, Cathi and Steven House carry forward the modernist questioning of the fundamental premises of architecture by embracing what the Mediterranean vernacular had to teach them about sensuous enjoyment and human dignity achieved in a life lived both privately and in conjunction with others, in the infinitude and wonder of shifting light, in the hand wrought detail and in the clarity and interconnection of built forms. What more could one ask of home than that it combine security with wonder, all the while fortifying what is most personal and most communal in our lives.

This stunning celebration of the 25-year collaboration between two remarkable legends - the fashion house Chanel and Peter Marino - through a stunning collection of buildings that Marino designed to elevate Chanel's luxury retail spaces to the realm of fine art.
With more than 300 stunning images, including architectural plans and...

Barbara Engel and Nikolas Rogge, eds. | Iodine Edition 2023

The book gathers 24 interviews by Stephanie Davidson with architects and designers from 15 countries, about their relationship with materials and how this informs architecture's and design's place in society.
Questions of economy, ecology, cooperation, and pedagogy are at the heart...

Traces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today
This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and...

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Since the modern beehive was patented in 1852, the alternative techniques for tending bees prior to this homogenization have been overlooked. Using an array of archival images, this book uncovers the forgotten history of hive innovation, offering a renewed perspective to challenge conventional narratives and encourage speculation and curiosity.

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An Arabic/English publication featuring original embroidered designs of 23 Palestinian spring flowers with landscape photographs of the spring in Palestine accompanied by relevant literary texts, including poetry, on Palestinian flora. This new book is a must for all those who love flowers and embroidery. 

"There is no end to the...

An insightful collection of essays on the overlooked sign. Each chapter explores the extraordinary connection that culture and society have to this common object.

The book blends historical overview, graphic taxonomy, and design criticism on eleven signage types, ranging from signs that say no, to pharmacy signs, and all in-between. Every...

Reyner Banham

Monacelli

SKU S04015

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This highly acclaimed, first ever monograph on the highly influential Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata (1934–1991) is a two-volume title presenting all his compelling and idiosyncratic work in a stunning, specially designed acrylic slipcase.

Designers and design enthusiasts who love Kuramata will be astonished by the breadth and depth of Kuramata’s...

The first complete monograph on the provocative work of influential Italian designer, architect, and critic Alessandro Mendini

Born in Milan in 1931, Alessandro Mendini created vivid, boundary-pushing, eccentric work that sits in an aesthetic universe of its own. He was at the heart of Italy’s Radical design movement in the 1960s and 1970s and, later, Postmodernism, championing a sensitive and intellectual approach to design; he edited Domus magazine in the early 1980s; and he collaborated with brands ranging from Alessi, Swarovski, and Hermès to Supreme. Along with his contemporaries Ettore Sottsass and Gaetano Pesce, Mendini helped to redefine the concept of Italian design and architecture.

The first and only survey of Japanese design as seen through the lens of Japan’s traditional color spectrum - an exquisitely packaged fresh take on a universally popular topic.

The traditional colors of Japan have been in use since the seventh century, originally to indicate rank and social hierarchy but,...

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of traditional Japanese ceramic culture as interpreted by today’s leading designers.

The art of Japanese porcelain manufacturing began in Arita in 1616. Now, on its 400th anniversary, Arita / Table of Contents charts the unique collaboration between 16 contemporary designers and 10 traditional Japanese potteries as...

This book will be of interest to anyone studying old buildings or vernacular building techniques. Drystone walls are visible evidence of a reorganised agricultural infrastructure, and the social changes which followed. Thousands of miles of stone walls were built 1700 and 1900, all without the benefit of mortar. It...

The brilliant architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) designed glass wares from 1947 until the end of his career. He established a working relationship with the glass makers on the Venetian island of Murano during the 1940s, exhibiting glass works at the 1948 Venice Biennale and continuing to work with...

If Paul Rand was the most influential American graphic designer of the twentieth century, then Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art is the most important on his work. A comprehensive collection of his most important and best-known designs, A Designer’s Art gives unique insight into Rand’s design process and theory. This...

“To have the preeminent graphic designer in America—the leading proponent of the Modern—intelligently and forcefully speak out makes this a document for today and the ages. Rand’s book is a classic.”—Stephen Heller (1993)

Paul Rand (1914–1996) was a pioneer in the field of advertising design and typography, and his work...

From the minds behind Online Ceramics comes Tricker’s Cabin, a sprawling origin story of the characters, talismans, and tokens behind the celebrated clothing brand. From their early days making Grateful Dead bootlegs to becoming the official merch makers for Dead & Co., this book chronicles the range, as well as...