Art & craft / “applied arts”

Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.

The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.

The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.

A series of vases by Ronan Bouroullec made in Murano in collaboration with the Maestro glassblower Simone Cenedese.

Both an introduction to and an extension of the eponymous exhibition at the Mucem in Marseille, this catalogue offers an accessible and sensitive immersion in the richness of Amazigh culture, from the Neolithic to the present day.

The new edition of Campo di Marte by Nathalie Du Pasquier is enriched with sixteen additional compositions, expanding and complementing the original selection of the first edition.

A selection of photographs and architectural drawings of "joints" from Eastern Europe gathered and reinterpreted by Natasha Krymskaya, as part of a research project into architectural practices and craft culture.

An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.

As the most comprehensive monograph on Synnøve Anker Aurdal's work to date, Through the Threads writes a new, and sorely missing, chapter on the oeuvre and six-decade career of this textile pioneering artist.

A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.

The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.

This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.

Photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya.

A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.

A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.

The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.

The collection of Francis Meyer, one of the finest private collections in Europe of Art Nouveau glass works.

A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.

A poetic conversation, in five acts, between Yvon Lambert (Paris), Marie-Charlotte Calafat (director of the Mucem collections), Stéphane Ibars (artistic director of the Lambert collection), and numerous artists, accompanies the exhibition, which brings together works from the Yvon Lambert collection and Mucem folk art objects.

A contemporary artistic reinterpretation of a vanished craft.

A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.

An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.

Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.

Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.

Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.

This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.

The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.

A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.

Four artist's posters.

The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).

Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.

An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.

Tori Kudo's ceramics.

This 5th issue of the anthropology journal created by Mariana Castillo Deball explains and develops the issues at stake in the artist's recent research.

New monograph.

Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa explores Moroccan traditional knowledge and engages dialogue with diverse artistic perspectives, for the very first monographic exhibition dedicated to a contemporary artist at MACAAL, Marrakech.

An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.

The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.

This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.

A film by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure about the stained glass windows made by Kimsooja for the Metz Cathedral: a dialogue between contemporary art and cultural heritage and between Eastern and Western thought.

A community project initiated by the renowned Indian photographer with Adivasi papier-mâché artists from the Kokna and Warli tribes in Palghar district, India.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

A series of drawings made during a field visit by the filmmaker, writer and artist Ahmed Bouanani. Here ethnographer and illustrator, Bouanani analyzes the construction of Berber jewelry by sketching a taxonomy and a geography of formal symbolism of Berber groups in Morocco.

The new meaning of craft.

Four contemporary artists in touch with their territories (the catalogue of the exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris).

The manufacture of contemporary art objects.