American Surfaces, Stephen Shore’s largely unpublished series of photographs from 1972-3, took docum... more

Describes the creative things to trade for a butterfly in hand, including an umbrella, a seahorse, a... more

Describes what colors people of different professions see their world in, including green for a gard... more

Acts as an introduction to art for children. This book encourages children to look closely at art an... more

This book will look at the entire career of the French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, widely r... more

Surveys the works of American musical pioneers Charles Ives, Edgard Var墈se, Henry Cowell, and John C... more

100 of the most creative designers to have emerged on the international scene over the past five yea... more

Stephen Shore s photographs of ordinary America have had an extraordinary impact. Shore spent the 19... more

Provides a comprehensive survey of modern art, covering four hundred artists and their works from th... more

Orson Welles at Work is an in-depth, behind-the-camera survey of the work of one of the world’s most... more

This publication presents a catalogue raisonn歋 of the ouevre of an artist who has determined the his... more

Presented in a designed box featuring Elliot Erwitt s iconic image of Marilyn Monroe, this selection... more

From ancient Germany s Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel to James Turrell s 1995 photograph Roden Cr... more

This book is the most comprehensive survey and analysis of Brazilian modern architecture to date, wr... more

Illustrated with almost five hundred images, offers a survey of the art of sculpture from the 1960s ... more

An essential purchase for all dog lovers, this book features anonymous snapshots of dogs from the tu... more

A comprehensive survey of thehistory of engineering design and innovation in the Western world from ... more

Robert Massin (b. 1925), the celebrated French graphic artist, art director, typographer and writer,... more

The concept that the Japanese call ki, meaning the spirit of things, can be seen throughout Japanese... more

Presents a collection of stories that focuses on the whimsical adventures and misadventures of littl... more

This is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Francis Alys (b. 1959), which blurs the bou... more

The 20th Century Art Book was hailed upon its release as an exciting celebration of the myriad forms... more

of these formations occur in nature. This is Bernhard Edmaier s second book with Phaidon. His first book, EARTHSONG was...... more

Building: 3000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction traces the history of modern building ... more

Offers photographs of natural subjects of increasing sizes, from atoms and molecules, through close-... more

Presents a collection of fifty-five images from the Magnum photographer that document the lives of p... more

First Major Monograph on the Man Responsible for Permanently Revolutionizing Design in Corporate Ame... more

Anri Sala s work is often about obscurity - obscurity of images but also of language and experience ... more

This book turns words into pictures, finds poetry in rubbish, and discovers the unlikely in the comm... more

Josef Albers: To Open Eyes takes the reader through Albers s life in teaching - from his first years... more

The Definitive Book on the Work of Future Systems A building has to last, it just can t be about fa... more

inspired illustrations home in a beautifully woven hardback notebook, published by Phaidon Press. Notes from the Couch is a...... more

Subversive, irreverent and fiercely anti-authoritarian, Dada made the radical suggestion that anythi... more

Charts the course of the movement in all media, including painting, craft, and architecture and exam... more

This volume is the most definitive monograph to be published on Josef Mueller-Brockmann. It traces M... more