Product Description: In 1969, the French oil company Total began implementing a mass-production model for its gas stations―large ones for France's freeways, and the smaller roadside units. The company called in Jean Prouvé, who had already amply demonstrated his skills in the field of prefabrication...read more

Product Description: Jean Prouvé and Pierre Jeanneret's BCC Demountable House is part of the series of projects initiated in 1939 that center on the construction principle of the axial portal frame, created by Prouvé in 1938. The several examples of this small wooden building that were produced between 1941 and 1943 (during extreme wartime conditions) emphasize the two men's rare ability to adapt to constrained circumstances...read more

Product Description: For forty-five years, Jeffrey Silverthorne has been working steadily on an extensive body of work. With a background in the fine arts and the American photographic tradition, Silverthorne developed a photographic oeuvre that moves and balances between personal experiences, public spaces of presentation, and staged scenes...read more

Product Description: Published for an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, this volume concentrates on Gustav Courbet's position as the first avant-garde painter. With his provocative canvases and his emphasis on the artist as individual, Courbet was a crucial precursor of modernism who broke with the conventions of traditional academic training...read more

Product Description: In 2003, Mexican artist Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981) began to incorporate his grandfather’s photographic archive into his own work. This volume assembles various theoretical and literary digressions by writers, philosophers and poets, on 20 of the works that Bonillas has generated through the archive...read more