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Karenna Gore - The Circle and the Sphere - Earth Ethics as Inspiration
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
forthcoming
Karenna Gore posits a future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - Lehrstücke / Didactic Pieces
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The first comprehensive and personal look behind the scenes at the architect couple Trix and Robert Haussmann's planning, design and working processes.
Arab Design Now - Volume 2
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.
 Superstudio - Écrits sur le design
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.
Anaïs Borie - Brèches fertiles
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
forthcoming
A dive into the world of designer Anaïs Borie, where design is fueled by storytelling, fiction, and the hybridization of expertise, at the crossroads of craftsmanship, digital technologies, and industrial processes.
Mission archéographique blum-carotte-roses - Collection 105/150
2026
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
forthcoming
A photographic inventory of the distinctive features of the Grandclément neighborhood in Villeurbanne, created by students at the École Supérieure d'Art et Design de Saint-Étienne.
Pauline Deltour - An apparent simplicity
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Madd (Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Bordeaux)
forthcoming
Ettore Sottsass - Écrits
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.
Alexandra Midal - La puissance des images
2026
French edition
Empire - Books
forthcoming
An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Kitchen - Where function meets pleasure
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).
Jolanthe Kugler - The Bathroom - From hygiene to wellness
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).
Jolanthe Kugler - La cuisine - Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition)
Jolanthe Kugler - La salle de bains - De l\'hygiène au bien-être
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).
Alexandra Midal - Witches of Design - Ann Lee: Design, Trance and Feminism
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
Alexandra Midal - Sorcières du design - Ann Lee : design, transes et féminisme
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
Manuel Raeder - Faire – To look at things - Reading Until I Sleep
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A reflection on the practice of designer, graphic artist, and publisher Manuel Raeder.
Offline
2026
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 15th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), featuring: interviews with Shirin Yousefi & Lucas Erin, Charlie Engman, and Rebecca Zlotowski; portfolios: "THEY," Elizaveta Porodina, Ronan Bouroullec, Assises Vidy, and Freitag; Books feature: Nicole Udry, Friederike Daumiller, Pierre Charpin, Sonya Dyakova, Thierry de Peretti, Yoo-Mi Steffen.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Bathroom - From hygiene to wellness
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Kitchen - Where function meets pleasure
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - La salle de bains - De l\'hygiène au bien-être
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - La cuisine - Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room
Antoine Lecharny - Disegno Astratto (special edition)
2026
English edition
Tonini Editore
Special edition of the book Disegno Astratto, created by Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny, that includes the multiple "Boat, house, briefs, plane and sea lion".
Archivio - The Tech Issue
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
A mapping of the international landscape of technological archives.
Maghras - A Farm for Experimentation
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras: A Farm for Experimentation (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge.
Écodesign et Création - 3 volumes boxset
2025
French edition
Écodesign et Création
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
Three years of exploring avenues opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives (box set containing the three volumes S'attacher, 2023, Produire, 2024, and Prendre soin, 2025).
Donald Judd - The Low Countries - 1966–1971
2025
English edition
MER. Books
Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.
Bien faire & le faire savoir
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
The "doing" in art and design research.
Azimuts - Stories of composite
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
Focusing on contributions that explore composites as forms of art and design, as research methodologies and practices, and/or as theoretical concepts, issue 60 of the journal Azimuts proposes look at composites as a way of presenting or representing realities.
Nathalie du Pasquier - So Many Real Things
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions de l'Observeur
Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.
Martin Szekely - Debut
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les commissaires anonymes - Objet d'étude
Monograph dedicated to the famous designer's early work.
David Dubois - En mouvement
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
An overview of the multifaceted work of designer and set designer David Dubois, with a text by critic Jeanne Quéheillard.
Azimuts - Graphisme(s): Transmitting gestures, tools, thoughts and practices today
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
Azimuts - Récits dé-composites
2025
French edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
Focusing on contributions that explore composites as forms of art and design, as research methodologies and practices, and/or as theoretical concepts, issue 60 of the journal Azimuts proposes look at composites as a way of presenting or representing realities.
Andrea Branzi - Mosca 1962
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A photographic report by the famous Italian architect and designer on his youthful trip to Moscow during the political “thaw.”
Écodesign et Création - Prendre soin
2025
French edition
Écodesign et Création
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
An exploration of the opportunities opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives.
 Atelier E.B - Atelier E.B 2026 Calendar
2025
no text
Bierke
Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie develop their joint projects. Atelier E.B's 2026 calendar is dedicated to the duo's spectacular window displays (2019-2025). These exhibitions feature garments from their fashion label arranged by professional window dressers—integrating the shopping experience into the exhibition context.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
Tools - To Spin
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.
Ronan Bouroullec - Inchiostri + Inchiostri Supplement
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of vases by Ronan Bouroullec made in Murano in collaboration with the Maestro glassblower Simone Cenedese.
3000 Days of Archives Related to the Optics and Glasses Frame Industry
2025
English edition
various
A visual journey through the forgotten corners of the eyewear industry, 3000 Days Of Archives Related To The Optics And Glasses Frame Industry is a testament to the richness of forgotten material culture, at the crossroads of visual culture, industrial design, photography and archival research.
Typologie - The camping tent
2025
English edition
Typologie
Typologie
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.
Typologie - La tente de camping
2025
French edition
Typologie
Typologie
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.
Marco A. Castillo - The Decorator\'s Home / La casa del decorador
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
The Decorator's Home delves into Marco A. Castillo's exploration of the development of industrial design in the 1960s and 1970s Cuba, examining its complex and often contradictory ties to the revolutionary ideals of the time.
Antoine Lecharny - Disegno Astratto
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
The experiments of an "abstract design" made by the duo Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny.
Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
L\'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Cité du design / ESADSE
A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.
Ressource(s), présager demain - Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2025
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
Designers and researchers question the notion of resources (being material, human or intellectual) and our everyday habits to explore the ways in which design can respond to contemporary issues by rethinking production, consumption and innovation (the catalogue of the 13th Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial).
Federico Pepe - Every Thing About Nothing<sup>TM</sup>
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Federico Pepe fills the void in our lives, multiplying the ecstasy of emptiness ad infinitum (a project by Federico Pepe & Le Dictateur Studio curated by Elena Volpato).
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