Art & craft / “applied arts”

 
 
Piero Gilardi - Not for Sale - A la recherche de l\'art relationnel 1982-2000
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
sold out
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Tools - To Fold
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
sold out
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
Marie Hazard -
2022
English edition
Zolo Press
sold out
First monograph of the French textile artist.
Tools - To Weave
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
sold out
The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.
Global Tools - When Education Coincides with Life – 1973–1975
2022
English edition
Nero
sold out
Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers."
Tools - To Mold
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
sold out
The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.
Moki Cherry - Blank Forms - Organic Music Societies
2021
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
sold out
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.
 Bastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard - La Période Molle
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nieves
sold out
The iconic everyday objects, “soft” sculptures, ceramic pieces and collages by the Swiss duo.
Bert Flint - Planète afro-berbère - Les arts transsahariens au musée Tiskiwin, de Marrakech à Tombouctou
2021
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
sold out
An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.
Artifices instables - Histoires de céramiques
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A journey of invention and experimentation through more than 200 pieces by international artists, observing the diversity not only of forms and decorations, but also of manufacturing processes of ceramic.
Marcin Rusak - Encoded Symbols
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
This book is dedicated to the work of Marcin Rusak, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Pattern, Crime & Decoration
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
sold out
Catalogue of the double exhibition devoted to the Pattern & Decoration movement, with numerous previously unpublished archives.
Dix mille ans de luxe
2020
French edition
Kaph Books
sold out
What is, and what was luxury? This publication celebrates a world history of the lavish and the luxurious, through 350 extraordinary objects—fashion, jewellery, art, furniture, design and more. Discover how different cultures have defined luxury and the impact of such excess on the evolution of society, as a way to undermine or underline the status quo. Consider the the prominent role of women in defining luxury and wih it, the ebb and flow between excess and moderation.
10000 Years of Luxury
2019
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
What is, and what was luxury? This publication celebrates a world history of the lavish and the luxurious, through 350 extraordinary objects—fashion, jewellery, art, furniture, design and more. Discover how different cultures have defined luxury and the impact of such excess on the evolution of society, as a way to undermine or underline the status quo. Consider the the prominent role of women in defining luxury and wih it, the ebb and flow between excess and moderation.
Typologie - The Wooden Crate
2019
English edition
Typologie
Typologie
sold out
The fourth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the wooden crate.
Typologie - The Wine Bottle
2019
English edition
Typologie
Typologie
sold out
Typologie is a collection of design books about ordinary objects. This issue dedicated to the wine bottle features a photographic section with 60 silhouettes of rare or common bottles; a geography of forms, from Bordeaux to Alsace; a photographic report in the glassworks of Albi; a conversation between a botte-maker, a winemaker and a collector of ancient bottles.
Typologie - La bouteille de vin
2019
French edition
Typologie
Typologie
sold out
Typologie is a collection of design books about ordinary objects. This issue dedicated to the wine bottle features a photographic section with 60 silhouettes of rare or common bottles; a geography of forms, from Bordeaux to Alsace; a photographic report in the glassworks of Albi; a conversation between a botte-maker, a winemaker and a collector of ancient bottles.
Nathalie du Pasquier - The Strange Order of Things
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
A reflection on the genealogy of objects (artist's book).
Yann Gerstberger - Baby Comet Face
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
sold out
This monograph provides an exhaustive look at the practice of Yann Gerstberger, a French artist exiled in Mexico, whose work is deeply rooted in Mexican popular culture and pre-Columbian mythologies. The publication gathers series of works (sketches, photocopies, neon paper drawings and collages, tapestries), two essays, and poems by Gabriela Jauregui. The edition features an annex booklet devoted to exhibition views.
Philippe Weisbecker - Adirondacks
2017
no text
Nieves
sold out
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.
Reto Pulfer - Zustandskatalog - Catalog of States and Conditions
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Comprehensive monograph in the style of a catalogue raisonné, giving unique insight into the multidisciplinary practice of Reto Pulfer for the past fifteen years (with texts by Anselm Franke and Benoît Maire).
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
Gabriel Orozco - Fleurs fantômes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
sold out
Catalogue of Orozco's eponymous in-situ work at Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire: inspired by the princely apartments's old tapestries, the installation looks back at the castle's history and draws on a reflection on memory.
Ulla von Brandenburg - It Has a Golden Yellow Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Part monograph, part artist's book, a publication accompanying Ulla von Brandenburg's eponymous video work—a “danced film” dedicated to color.
Leonor Antunes - The tiny pliable plane (box set)
2016
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A series of seven silk-screen prints depicting close-up images of Antunes's sculptures inspired by the works of Anni Albers and Lina Bo Bardi (artist's edition).
Betty Woodman - Theatre of the Domestic
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Ten years of ceramic work by an important figure among post-war artists.
Giorgio Griffa - Works on Paper
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Devoted to the graphic practice of the artist, Giorgio Griffa – Works on Paper points up the singularity and importance of drawing in Griffa's creative process while introducing a rare selection of drawings and watercolours.
Giorgio Griffa - Works 1965-2015
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This monograph aims to highlight the very diverse features and extraordinary richness of Arte Povera painter Giorgio Griffa. With a selection of the artist's writings and comprehensive chronology.
Philippe Weisbecker - Structure Series
2015
no text
Nieves
sold out
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.
Eric Mindling - Fire and Clay - The Art of Oaxacan Pottery
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Eric Mindling, a self-defined potterologist has explored Oaxaca and its 70 plus pottery villages for more than twenty years. This experience has become Fire and Clay – The Art of Oaxacan Pottery, a panoramic vision of the past, present and future of Oaxacan pottery.
Eric Mindling - Glaise et Feu - L\'art de la poterie de Oaxaca
2015
French edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Eric Mindling, a self-defined potterologist has explored Oaxaca and its 70 plus pottery villages for more than twenty years. This experience has become Fire and Clay – The Art of Oaxacan Pottery, a panoramic vision of the past, present and future of Oaxacan pottery.
Textiles - Open Letter
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
New monograph.
Ixiptla
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
This second edition of Ixiptla takes the form of a newspaper to broadcast the multiplicity of views and experiences connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition “Parergon” at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Philippe Weisbecker - Greenhouse Studies
2012
no text
Nieves
sold out
Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).
Sgrafo vs Fat Lava
2012
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
The art of ceramics.
 FLAG (Sébastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard) - In the Beginning it was Humid
2012
English edition
Nieves
sold out
A broad selection of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard's ceramic works.
Leonor Antunes - 1785/87/90-2010
2010
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
An extraordinary book-sculpture.
2025
French edition
Typologie
Typologie
forthcoming
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.
Sheila Hicks - A Matter of Scale
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
Sheila Hicks' recent monumental and architectural-based projects.
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