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Ken Isaacs - How to Build your Own Living Structures
2025
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
currently out of stock
Full-scale reproduction of the 1974 book by Ken Isaacs (1927-2016): a manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.
 Formafantasma - Down Under - The Curious Fall of a Child Who Knew Nothing and Became Everything
2025
English edition
Nero
An ecological fable by the design duo Formafantasma, beautifully illustrated by Clément Vuillier and accompanied by a rich selection of scientific texts exploring the intricate relationship between humans, the environment, and other organisms.
Marco Zanuso - Yemen 1979
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographic album of a trip to Yemen by one of the great architects and designers of the twentieth century.
Hubert Renard - La vie illustrée d\'Hubert Renard
2025
French edition
mfc-michèle didier
In this artist's book, Hubert Renard's search for himself leads us to meet other characters who have marked out his private life, like so many essential players in his accomplishment.
Shiro Kuramata - Alaïa / Kuramata - Lightness in Creation
2025
English edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Azimuts - Graphisme(s) : Transmettre aujourd\'hui les gestes, les outils, les pensées, les pratiques
2025
French edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
Flash Art Volumes - Anti Composition
2025
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art Volumes
For its second issue, Flash Art's yearly review Flash Art Volumes invited Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the New York–based architecture practice ANY as guest editors. They have titled this edition "Crisis Formalism."
Résider/Réhabiter - Deux saisons aux Arques
2025
French edition
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
A reflection on the experience and challenges of an artistic residency in a rural environment, nourished by the thought of re-habitation.
Azimuts - Use of artificial intelligence in art and design
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.
Matali Crasset - Les terreblements / La communauté des cratères - Fantaisie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.
Tomás Maldonado - Vers une écologie critique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.
David Bihanic - Du gouvernement des formes
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
On the relationship between architecture and design.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte II
2025
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
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.
 Every Island - A Comparative Dialogue Act - The Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (book + vinyl LP)
2025
Lenz Press
Consisting of a richly illustrated booklet and a record vinyl, this special release accompanies the performative sound-based project A Comparative Dialogue Act by artists Andrea Mancini and the collective Every Island, hosted in the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Shiro Kuramata - Alaïa / Kuramata - La légèreté en création
2025
French edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Béton ! - Collection 105/150
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
(last copies available!)
"Labo d'objet", a research laboratory run by UR Design & Création at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, proposes a visual reflection by creating images that associate concrete with vehicles such as cars, motor homes, tractors and caravans, at the crossroads of industrial culture and creative experimentation.
Toutes les images de match de foot sont les mêmes images - Collection 105/150
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
All television images seem to be the same image. An artist and researcher at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, Lorenza Mannaioni, attempts to prove this with this book of felt-tip pen images.
Offline
2025
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
currently out of stock
The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.
Kim Hastreiter - STUFF - A New York Life of Cultural Chaos
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved Paper magazine, has spent the last 50 years amassing a vast and iconoclastic collection of stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF, chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiter's singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens.
Alexandra Midal - Do You Speak Flower?
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
Manuel Raeder - Stickcal 2025
2024
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Studio Manuel Raeder's 2025 sticker calendar.
Temples for Industrious Lombards – Architecture by Mario Galvagni in Inveruno / Templi per lombardi laboriosi – Architetture di Mario Galvagni a Inveruno
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The extravagant villas designed between the 1960s and 1980s by Italian architect Mario Galvagni (1928-2020) for prosperous Lombard families.
Umberto Riva - USA 1966
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.
 Forty five degrees - Radical Rituals - 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E (France)
2024
English edition
Punch
Centered around the themes of latent knowledges, earth uprisings and borders, this second volume in the Radical Rituals series is the result of a research residency carried by forty five degrees collective in the summer of 2022 across France, from 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E.
Écodesign et Création - Produire
2024
French edition
Écodesign et Création
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.
Azimuts - Utilisation de l\'intelligence artificielle en art et en design
2024
French edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
L\'Art dans la vie ! - Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
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.
Tools - To Cut
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.
La collection Francis Meyer (box set)
2024
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
currently out of stock
The collection of Francis Meyer, one of the finest private collections in Europe of Art Nouveau glass works.
Ronan Bouroullec - Triptyque
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 7L
Ronan Bouroullec's first comprehensive monograph, bringing together his drawings, sculptures and ceramics, and design objects and projects.
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
Forgotten Architecture - An Archive of Overshadowed Projects
2024
English edition
Nero
A "minor" and alternative history of architecture.
Flash Art Volumes - Anti Composition
2024
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art Volumes
The inaugural issue of Flash Art's yearly review dedicated to design at large and an in-depth analysis of market relevant issues, titled Anti Composition, provides an aesthetical upgrade at world scale sources and phenomena (featuring Michael E. Smith; Peter Fischli; Anne Imhof; Paride Maria Calvia; Armature Globale; Joshua Brinksman; Mishima House, Tokyo; Winter House, London; Hopkins House, London; Wolf D. Prix; Bruce Graham Residence, Chicago; Sci-Arc, Los Angeles; The Met, New York; Scad Museum Of Art, Savannah; Bottega Veneta...).
 Ganko - Glasraum
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Ronan Bouroullec - Lausanne
2024
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
Offline
2024
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 13th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews with Paul Hirsch, Sébastian Strappazzon, Matthieu Gafsou, Lorenza Longhi, Gabriele Garavaglia, Loucia Carlier.
Michel Guérin - Aménager l\'espace, orner les lieux
2024
French edition
Athom
Three texts by Michel Guérin on the notions of ornament and decoration, at the crossroads of theological, anthropological, aesthetic and philosophical considerations.
Azimuts - Dé-designer
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The "deconstruction" of design, between practice and reflection.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
Strange Design
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The glass as a listening device.
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