Product Description: Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was photographed extensively during his life--at work, while traveling or at home. But only a few photographers had the privileged access and tenacity of Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl. Graphic artist Staeck and printer/publisher Steidl accompanied Beuys with their cameras from 1970 until his death in 1986...read more

Product Description: Paper Passion Perfume captures the unique olfactory pleasures of the freshly printed book. Designed by boutique perfumer Geza Schoen in close consultation with Gerhard Steidl and in collaboration with Wallpaper magazine, the book expresses that distinctive mix of paper and ink which gives a book its unmistakable aroma...read more

Product Description: For many years, respected gallerists Peter MacGill, Rudolf Kicken and Edwynn Houk have been collecting Aleksandr Rodchenko's photographs. This book is a curated selection of these images, most reproduced at their original sizes. The hallmarks of Rodchenko's inimitable Constructivist-influenced vision are here to see, regardless of whether he is photographing people, architecture or machinery--bold diagonals, abstract shapes and moving objects cutting through space...read more

Product Description: Dom Pierre Pérignon tells the story of the world's most luxurious champagne, tracing its circuitous history across four centuries, arranged in three chapters--one each for the seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Beautifully produced, in keeping with its subject, this page-turning luxury object unravels the myth of Dom Pérignon champagne, beginning with its namesake--the pioneering Benedictine Monk Dom Pierre Pérignon--who set out to create the best wine in the world...read more

Product Description: In 2007 the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California asked Jim Dine to make a work in response to a part of their antiquities collection at the "Villa". Dine carved three large scale wood sculputes, painting them with very bright colors in the ancient Hellenistic way, and surrounded them with a long poem attached to the wall...read more

Product Description: In one of his journals, Thomas Mann refered to "a great number of obscene drawings" that his brother Heinrich had made. Until recently, those drawings, with the exception of one sketchbook, were thought to have been destroyed. Presented here are 150 of the most interesting selections from the 400 that Volker Skierka found hidden in the archives of a private estate...read more

Product Description: Robert Polidori, often considered an architectural photographer, is in fact a photographer of habitat. On the surface his subjects are buildings, but at the core his lens is focused on the remnants and traces of living he finds scattered in hallways, left in back rooms and worn on facades...read more

Product Description: Few modern buildings embody such modernist beauty and mythical magic as Casa Malaparte, designed by the Italian poet and novelist Curzio Malaparte in 1937 as a home for himself, and later made famous by Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Contempt, starring Brigitte Bardot...read more

Product Description: This gem of a book pairs classic nude figures with a spectacular diamond studded broach designed by Karl Lagerfeld. It is a tribute to the sublime erotics of luxury.

Product Description: This is Lagerfeld's own album of the photographic stories and sequences that he has created over the last eight years. Shot in black and white, often with models and costumes, his photos are at once beautifully composed, stylish, sensuous, literate and full of fantasy.

Product Description: Dieses Buch wurde mitder Absicht geschrieben, Eigenschaften, Kennwerte, Formeln und Prinzipien bei Konstruktion und Berechnung von geschwei ten Aluminium Konstruktionen zusammenzustellen. Es ist bestimmt als Arbeits- und Entschei dungshilfe fiir den Ingenieur in der Praxis, aber auch als Lehrbuch fiir Studenten des konstruktiven I ngenieurbaus...read more