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 Trix + Robert Haussmann - Lehrstücke / Didactic Pieces
2025
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.
Donald Judd - The Low Countries - 1965–1971
2025
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.
David Dubois - En mouvement
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
forthcoming
An overview of the multifaceted work of designer and set designer David Dubois, with a text by critic Jeanne Quéheillard.
Ettore Sottsass - Écrits
2025
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.
Martin Szekely - Debut
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les commissaires anonymes
forthcoming
Monograph dedicated to the famous designer's early work.
 Atelier E.B - Atelier E.B 2026 Calendar
2025
no text
Bierke
forthcoming
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.
Azimuts - Composite
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
forthcoming
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
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.
L\'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Cité du design / ESADSE
forthcoming
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.
Tools - To Spin
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
forthcoming
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.
Typologie - The camping tent
2025
English edition
Typologie
Typologie
forthcoming
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
forthcoming
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.
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.
JTM - Disco Inferno
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
JTM
Pli - JTM
This second issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design, blending retro nostalgia with cutting-edge innovation.
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.
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2025 - Ressource(s), présager demain
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).
Ken Isaacs - How to Build your Own Living Structures
2025
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
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.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There
2025
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
Every page of Here and There Vol.1 – Vol.13.5 in a single volume.
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.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Bathroom - From hygiene to wellness
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
currently out of stock
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
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
currently out of stock
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 cuisine - Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
2025
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.
Jolanthe Kugler - La salle de bains - De l\'hygiène au bien-être
2025
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.
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
currently out of stock
"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)
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.
Décor - Contrefeu
2025
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
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.
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.
Luisa Castiglioni - 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.
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