Published on the occasion of Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA April 12 — 14, 2019

This reader culminates a year of activity under the umbrella of WT Speelplaats. As the custodians of year 19, — Adriaan Van Leuven and Oliver Boulton — proposed a way of working through imitation. Be it a method, model or base; by adopting the action(s …

Art works inspired by Mies van der Rohe by international artists such as Rita Ernst, Daniel Libeskind, Sarah Morris, Erwin Wurm, Rem Koolhaas, Konstantin Grcic, Kurt Schwitters, Carl Andre, Peter Eisenman, Isa Genzken, Alexander Calder, Thomas Ruff, Ed …

(French edition). Esther Woerdehoff (Hrsg.). Steidl 2017. Französisch. 240 Seiten, 165 Abb. 22 x 30 cm. 1,5 kg. Fester Einband. 9783958293618.

Hardly known outside the famous images of young rebels and rockers are the sports images Karlheinz Weinberger shot starting in the 1960’s. In this 2nd book with images by the Swiss photographer, Sturm & Drang presents a lesser known but truly captivati …

Jahrzehntelang war die Designerin und Architektin Eileen Gray (1878-1976) so gut wie vergessen. Heute wird sie im selben Atemzug mit Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe oder Marcel Breuer genannt, und einige ihrer Entwürfe – etwa der Tisch E-1027 oder der …

Design: Irma Boom. Bernard Arnault, Suzanne Page. Ausst’publikation. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. Flammarion 2015. Beiträge von Laurence Bosse. Englisch. 200 Seiten, 27,8 x 36,1 cm. 1,6 kg. Broschur. This striking catalog, designed by Irma Boom, sho …

Robert Heinecken was a pioneer in the postwar Los Angeles art scene who described himself as a para-photographer because his work stood “beside” or “beyond” traditional ideas of the medium. Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition of t …

Das Projekt Neuwerk – Magazin für Designwissenschaft wurde 2009 von Eva Kristin Stein und Florian Walzel im Rahmen des Masters Design Studies an der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle initiiert. Die diesjährige Ausgabe ist erstmalig eine Koopera …

Featuring spectacular actor Josh O’Connor on the cover, photographed in the English countryside by KARIM SADLI and interviewed on a meander through London by MARK SMITH. Elsewhere in this magnificent issue: OLAFUR ELIASSON on art, CHRISTOPHER WYLIE on …

From street fashion to high culture the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated young multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this lavishly illustrated book. Virgil Abloh’s story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in …

Ausst’publikation. Kunsthaus Zürich. Scheidegger & Spiess 2016. Beiträge von Adrian Sudhalter, Michel Sanouillet, Cathérine Hug et al. Deutsch. 304 Seiten, 390 Abb. (davon 277 farbig und 113 s/w). 20 x 26,5 cm. 1,2 kg. Fester Einband. 9783858814999. Da …

Le Corbusier planned and built five Unités d’Habitation in Marseille, Nantes, Berlin, Briey, and Firminy in the period from 1945 to 1967. Owing to the acute shortage of housing after the war, he also developed a new type of building, a multifunctional …

In Fragments of a Crisis untersucht Julian Irlinger das Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Ideologie anhand künstlerischer Arbeit in der Weimarer Republik. Sein Ausgangsmaterial ist Notgeld, das während der Inflation (1918 – 1923) parallel zur offiziellen Wäh …

Twin Mirrors is a publication of two new short stories: small parables in comics form. These dream sequences are in deliberate contrast to one another. The first story is set in the titular Hermetic Library, in which we stumble upon a seemingly ever-ex …