Design

 
 
Philippe Weisbecker - Adirondacks
2017
no text
Nieves
(last copies available!)
This artist's book is based on an Adirondack furniture book donated to Philippe Weisbecker 20 years ago by a New York friend who worked in a hardware store.
Stream - Les paradoxes du vivant
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
The fourth issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, explores the figure of the living as the key to contemporary challenges. Contributions by experts in different fields of knowledge offers the opportunity to rethink our relationship to the ecosystem and the new technologies, and to bring forward the essential notion of cohabitation.
EnsAD 250
2017
French edition
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of The French National School for Decorative Arts, this catalogue documents and expands a unique project built around a workshop gathering former and actual students, and an extraordinary exhibition of 250 posters in the Paris metro.
Ugo Mulas - Danimarca 1961
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In 1961, L'Illustrazione Italiana sends critic Giorgio Zampa and photographer Ugo Mulas to carry out a reportage in Denmark. Along their meetings with writer Karen Blixen or Nobel Prize Nils Bohr, the two correspondents also witness the new manifestations of the Scandinavian lifestyle, characterized by its design and its modern habitats.
Valentine Schlegel - Je dors, je travaille
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel (1925-2021). It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin (new expanded edition with English texts).
Annie Claustres - Objets emblèmes, objets du don - Enjeux postmodernes de la culture matérielle, de 1964 à nos jours
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.
Azimuts - Travail
2017
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The second volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations.
Xavier Antin - News from Nowhere
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Crèvecœur
This catalogue documents two exhibitions by Xavier Antin inspired by William Morris' anticipation novel News from Nowhere. The French artist draws from the thinking of The Arts & Crafts movement's inspirer to provide a reflection on the mutations of craftsmanship and design.
Olivier Peyricot - Domestique adoré, DA – Design, expérimentations, textes, 1997-2017
2017
French edition
it: editions
A collection of texts by artist and designer Olivier Peyricot, documenting his research and experiments since 1997. For twenty years, Peyricot has been questioning the political and social dimensions of design.The publication also features a rich iconographic documentation.
Pierre-Damien Huyghe - Azimuts - Du travail
2017
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The first volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations presents a collection of texts by the philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.
Raffael Waldner - Salon
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.
EP Vol. 2 - Design Fiction
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).
Manuel Raeder - Makulatur - 2010-2016
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A collection of misprinted sheets originating from books designed by graphic designer Manuel Raeder: a “behind the scene” project, which documents the early stage of book production and its conventions.
Azimuts - Varia
2016
texts in English and French
Azimuts
Interviews with the artist Alain Bublex and the architect-designer-researcher Joseph Grima, a text by the designer and typographer François Chastanet on the graffiti of Los Angeles gangs...
Daniela Comani - Sunsets
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.
Milieux & créativités
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Initiales - Initiales N.D.P.
2016
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Nathalie du Pasquier.
Simon Starling - A–Z
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.
Azimuts - TEOTWAWKI (The End of The World as We Know It)
2016
texts in English and French
Azimuts
An issue all about the end (with a sociological investigation by Bertrand Vidal into survivalism).
Azimuts - WTDCTATSTW (When Design Cherishes the Ambition to Save the World)
2016
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The ambition of design and its limits
 Bastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard - Paris céramique
2016
French edition
Nieves
Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.
Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung - Public Design Support 2011-2016
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.
Carlo Mollino - Giappone 1970
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.
Obliquite - Paradigm
2016
English edition
miscellaneous
25.00 12.50 €
The first issue the new experimental design review focuses on new types of design practice, be it a happening, performance, installation or game. Seven international designers have been invited to expand on the themes and questions at the heart of their explorations, through essays and interviews.
 M/M (Paris) - Les affiches du Théâtre de Lorient
2015
French edition
M/M (Paris)
All posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient since 1996, with comments by Eric Vigner, Bénédicte Vigner, and Mathias Augustyniak (edition completed with a photographic booklet and the theater's 20th anniversary programming).
Andrée Putman - Andrée Putman at the CAPC by Heinz Peter Knes
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
35.00 10.00 €
German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.
Philippe Weisbecker - Structure Series
2015
no text
Nieves
The present portfolio is a sampler of some various structural beam combinations from 20th Century edifices. It can be viewed as a book, spread by spread, or pinned on the wall, according to taste, the way a kid might stack up building blocks.
Simon Starling - Peep-Hole Sheet - Woven Worlds – Some Notes on a Work in Progress
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.
Anne Brugni - Metamorphosis
2015
no text
Shelter Press - Books
Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
 Weinberg & Co - Haussmann für Weinberg
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.
Hubert Renard - Invitation - Quarante-deux cartons d\'invitation aux vernissages
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens
Artist's book.
Doris Maninger - Sono qui [un esercito di donnacce nude]
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Doris Maninger's drawings (artist's book).
Carlo Scarpa - L\'art d\'exposer
2015
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.
 Ludovic Burel & Ju Hyun Lee - KVM Ø - Counter Fictional Design
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
it: editions
Publication gathering five conference performances, written in French and English, by the Franco-Korean duo of artists and researchers Ju Hyun Lee and Ludovic Burel, whose works combine installations, performances, and publications.
Stream - Inhabiting the anthropocene
2014
English edition
Stream
The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene, with contributions by about forty renowned international contributors (Nicolas Bourriaud, Pierre Huyghe, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Pierre Musso, Neri Oxman, Christian de Portzamparc, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Jean Viard...), in long and elaborate interviews.
Stream - Habiter l\'Anthropocène
2014
French edition
Stream
The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene (available in English edition).
 Studio Wieki Somers - Out of the Ordinary
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New design monograph: the studio's 10th anniversary publication "Out of the Ordinary," lavishly illustrated, elucidates the design philosophy of Studio Wieki Somers.
Jozef Wouters - All Problems Can Never Be Solved
2014
English edition
various
A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.
Neuf espaces en design
2014
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective work conducted by students and teachers from the Design & Space Master at ESAAA art school that aims to highlight the atypical forms that young designers produce and address to our contemporary societies.
Alessandro Mendini - Ecrits (architecture, design et projet)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Mendini's writings 1972-2011.
Scott King - Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...
Manuel Raeder - La letra E está por doquier
2013
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
(last copies available!)
A catalogue that proposes an open narrative through the objects on display and questions the position contemporary design plays in the dialogue between people and every day objects.
Azimuts - Animal
2013
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The 39th issue of the design research journal is dedicated to the animal.
L\'archéologie du numérique
2013
French edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization, and production at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
Town-Gown Conflict
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
currently out of stock
An exhibition of textiles by women artists and designers who explore the social ramifications of couture and industrial/manual fabric production.
Gianni Piacentino -
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A tribute to Gianni Piacentino's art and to his sense of independence with works spanning 1966 to the present.
 Futurefarmers - A Variation on Powers of Ten
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Ten discussions based on the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten used as score.
H. R. Giger - Alien Diaries
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.
 Trix + Robert Haussmann -
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Reference monograph.
filters:


 top of page