‘When I'm looking at the flowers, they almost feel like moving jewellery.’ Nicole Wittenberg on her new edition Golden Rod and Queen Anne’s Lace, 2025.
The artist tells us how a rural Maine setting resulted in a very special edition.
Take a look at how The First Homosexuals were represented in art
Pioneering figures, rarely seen ephemera, in depth essays, and a teapot in the shape of Oscar Wilde - our new book is a revelation.
From penthouses to palazzos – these hotels are the epitome of exceptional hospitality
Our new book Culture: The Leading Hotels of the World features 80 hotels that impress and excel.
The story behind William Monk’s new lithograph, Mount Atom, 2025
‘I chose a previous painting to work from, one with essentially three elements: cloud, sky, and land,’ he tells Phaidon.com
Five Questions for Enrique Olvera
The Netflix star chef and Sunny Days, Taco Nights author tells us how his love of the humble taco took him from kitchen table to top table.
Introducing - Annie Leibovitz: Women
This landmark collection of portraits of women - actors, astronauts, artists, politicians, and writers - is back in print in a slipcase edition, together with a completely new book of photographs.
Introducing - The Jewelry Book
A dazzling collection featuring 300 designers, creative houses, icons, and collectors across the world who’ve produced and inspired the most memorable designs in jewelry over 200 years.
Introducing – Yves Saint Laurent and Photography
The designer and his designs, as captured by the greatest photographers of the 20th century, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, William Klein, Annie Leibovitz, and Juergen Teller.
Introducing – Vietnam The Cookbook
A definitive collection of 450 authentic recipes for home cooks that explores and celebrates the everyday food found in Vietnamese kitchens, as well as the traditional regional dishes, sourced from across the country.
Introducing - Everybody Loves Stripes
Dive into the world of stripes with the Schumacher design house and discover inspiring examples in every decorating style from top designers, along with ingenious methods for deploying stripes in your own home.
Introducing – Derrick Adams
Organised around the motivations of his practice, this debut book presents 150 of the most significant works from Adams’s thirty-year career, establishing him as one of the most important figurative artists working today.
Introducing – Danielle Mckinney Beyond the Brushstroke
This innovative debut book on the artist presents 50 paintings, along with 50 prompts for self-reflection, written by her mother, with journal pages at the back of the book for readers to respond.
It was 20 years ago today. . .
... Rihanna told the DJ to play. To celebrate the anniversary of her first single release, 20 years ago, take another look at our Rihanna book through the eyes of its designers, Jonathan Barnbrook and Marwan Kaabour.
‘This is the first incarnation of XXX. That makes it intimate,’ Harland Miller says of his new edition
New etching builds on Miller’s original working drawing for the acclaimed painting.
Meet the Chef - Hugh Mangum
Our Barbecue author (and former rock star drummer, no less) on why he thinks barbecue is a meditative force that crosses all cultures, how the death of his dad set him on the road to success, and why meat is more important than marinade.
Meet the Phaidon Kids author - Helen Scales
Our What a Shell Can Tell author combines a diver’s devotion to exploring the oceans, a scientist’s attention to detail, and a storyteller’s obsession with words and ideas.
Meet The Phaidon Kids illustrator - Sara Gillingham
As a child, our Alpha Bravo Charlie illustrator created ‘paper worlds’ for the cats in her neighbourhood. As an adult she always looks for the essential in each illustration and believes books are a critical break from a fast-paced childhood.
Meet the Phaidon Kids author - Joshua David Stein
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Guardian writer on the rhythm of words, why his book Brick is akin to a Dharmic text, and how he finds comfort in the darkness of Tomi Ungerer.
Meet the Phaidon Kids illustrator - Lisk Feng
The Chinese American illustrator of Phaidon's Our World Series of books has attracted the admiration of Oprah Winfrey as well as legions of kids across the world.
Meet the Phaidon Kids illustrator - Veronika Kotyk
When she was a little girl in Ukraine our Spooky Celebrations illustrator would put her finger on a map and imagine the adventures she’d have getting from her side of the world to another.
Meet The Phaidon Kids illustrator - Steven Guarnaccia
This legendary designer has created impactful work for Swatch, MoMA, and The New York Times, to name just a few, but when our kids book The Story of Pasta beckoned, he just couldn’t resist.
Meet the Phaidon Kids author - Ferren Gipson
This London-based curator, historian, artist, and educator is on a mission to turn kids on to contemporary and historical art – and not always through conventional means.
Meet the Phaidon Kids illustrator - Sonia Pulido
The acclaimed Barcelona-based artist behind Phaidon’s Shell and Superpowered books always tries to get a family member – animal or human – into her illustrations.
Meet the Phaidon Kids illustrator - Lotta Nieminen
When she's not branding Hermès, Bulgari, and Marimekko, this Finnish designer makes Pasta!, Pancakes!, and Spaghetti! dishes look delicious for our interactive recipe books.
Meet the Phaidon Kids illustrator - Sam Brewster
“Anyone who's an illustrator has a kid in them still that's getting excited," says the artist behind our Bones and Flight books. "As I'm drawing, there's a kid next to me going, ‘That's cool!’”
Meet the Phaidon Kids author - Gabrielle Balkan
Faster! Higher! Stronger! We talk to the woman encouraging kids to astound their classmates with incredible animal world facts.
Cig Harvey tell us about her new edition, Wisteria, 2025
'I really embraced this idea of the figure embracing the wisteria. It's about what it is to be human,' she says.
Defining Style with John Pawson
In a series of interviews with designers featured in our new interiors book Defining Style, we talk to a true master of minimalism.
Phaidon launches Defining Style with a designer gathering on the Upper East Side hosted with 1stDibs and UOVO
Author Joan Barzilay Freund and designers from the book were guests at Alex and Michael Shuman’s gorgeous town home.
Cig Harvey: ‘I would arm wrestle any photographer who says they're not romantic, it's inherent to the medium.’
The Emerald Drifters photographer tells us how to see beauty in everyday life, why cakes can be art, and what happened when she asked literary sensation Ocean Vuong to write the afterword in her new book.
Remembering Ricardo Scofidio who pushed the boundaries of how we experience art, architecture, and the world around us
We pay tribute to the pioneering DS+R architect who has died aged 89.
Rose Carrarini tells us how to cook with kids
The Rose Bakery founder talks to Phaidon about her new book Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children.
Defining Style with Ben Pentreath
In a series of interviews with designers featured in our new interiors book Defining Style, we talk to the King of England's designer of choice.
Defining Style with Shawn Henderson
In a series of interviews with designers featured in our new interiors book Defining Style, we talk to the man who loves to make art the centrepiece of any home.
Shahzia Sikander tells us about a new limited edition print released to coincide with her Monacelli monograph
The Pakistani American artist has created a special edition called Her-Vimana to accompany the book, Collective Behavior.
Phaidon celebrates 20 years of children’s books!
Bones, bears, and blue chip artists - how our children’s books authors and illustrators imagined new worlds for inquisitive kids.
New Books for the New Year: Emerald Drifters
In her second Monacelli book the UK-born, US-based, photographer Cig Harvey shares her distinctive images of beauty, nature, sensory experience, and domestic life.
New Books for the New Year: Sunny Days, Taco Nights
Although he’s received acclaim for his fine dining reinvention of Mexican cuisine, Enrique Olvera’s guilty pleasure has always been the everyday taco. Now he’s created a book dedicated to the (not so) humble foodstuff.
New Books for the New Year: Elliott Erwitt: DogDogs
500 wet noses, 2000 paws, fur galore, and one late, great English satirist’s prose peek from the pages of this reissue of the Magnum photographer’s most-loved book.
New Books for the New Year: The Rose Book
Over 200 spectacular images alongside essays by big thinkers from the worlds of fashion, art and horticulture, take readers on a journey of discovery, highlighting our enduring connection to the rose and the ways it's inspired artists and image-makers throughout time.
New Books for the New Year: Made by MSCHF
Our new book on the often chaotic, always innovative, Brooklyn collective harnesses their unique brand of subversive humour to tell the story of how they operate and generate ideas.
New Books for the New Year: Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children: Rose Bakery
Food world legend Rose Carrarini creates a beautiful book for adults who want to cook with the kids in their lives.
New Books for the New Year: Barbecue: Smoked & Grilled Recipes from Across the Globe
Hugh Mangum shows you how to fire up a fabulous barbie with Spanish sardines, Ghanian goat, Australian cabbage and Marmite, and even Icelandic cheesecake.
New Books for the New Year: Mid-Century Modern Designers
Dominic Bradbury’s latest in-depth look at the seemingly timeless movement lays bare the people behind the products.
New Books for the New Year: Defining Style: The Book of Interior Design
Discover 25 design styles you didn’t know about through 150 incredible interiors from the world’s leading designers.
New Books for the New Year: Harland Miller: XXX
Featuring over 100 of his letter paintings, studio pics, and a VERY lively interview with The Design Museum’s Tim Marlow, the artist with a love of language is back.
‘No one told me what to do or how to do it.’ How Jonathan Becker became the pre-eminent photographer of 20th and 21st-century high life.
In the second part of our interview the Time Lost photographer talks about Frank Sinatra, Donald Trump and some of the darker places photography took him to.
Remembering Vefa Alexiadou, a culinary icon who transformed Greek cuisine
We pay tribute to our Greece the Cookbook author who has died aged 91.
INTERVIEW: How Jonathan Becker captured contemporary America and beyond.
Jonathan Becker is one of the great visual storytellers of our time. Our new book Lost TIme collects photographs from across his career, charting his journeys through New York, Paris, and London from the 1970s to the 2010s.
Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy lands in New York
Michael Goldberg talks Phaidon through the latest incarnation of the 1987 art amusement park that features works by Basqiat, Haring, and Hockney.
The story behind our new Holiday Gifting campaign
What was the late 70s artwork that inspired the concept? Read on to find out.
Phaidon hosts author events in New York, London, and Dublin
Great Women Sculptors, Leading Hotels of the World, Love How You Live, and The Contemporary African Kitchen are among the new books celebrated at select gatherings
Meet the Author with the Best Job in the World – Ben Mims
The food researcher, recipe tester, and author of Crumbs: Cookies and Sweets from Around the World, tells us all we need to know and more about cookies.
Dominic Bradbury talks us through the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces
Sculptural statements, colourful facades, curvaceous concrete, Mid-Century Modern really was a golden age for architecture
Meet the Chef - Alexander Smalls
The superstar chef curator of our new book The Contemporary African Kitchen on his journey from opera house to African continent via upscale restaurants.
Anna Park releases her debut lithograph Look, look., 2024
KAWS and Billie Eilish are fans, she’s just had her first institutional show outside the US and has been called ‘a major new figure in drawing today’. We talk to the Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist on an incredible career curve right now.
Great Woman Sculptor Arlene Shechet tells Phaidon about her new edition New Dawn, 2024
‘Dawn is the beginning of everything. I thought that was perfect because it’s my first small sculpture. It’s a new thing that I’m doing.’
Meet the Chef - Max Rocha
The Café Cecilia founder tells us about his perfect dinner party dish, that time he set the kitchen on fire, the one food he’ll never eat, and why he still asks himself: what would Ruth Rogers do?
How the Eyes on Iran graphic design was created
Our new book Graphic Classics reveals the back stories to some of the most momentous designs in history
How the Black Lives Matter graphic design was created
Our new book Graphic Classics reveals the back stories to some of the most momentous designs in history
How the Obama Progress/ Hope graphic design was created
Our new book Graphic Classics reveals the back stories to some of the most momentous designs in history
Did you know planet earth has over 3 trillion trees?
And botanists, conservationists, art historians, and museum curators picked some of the best artistic representations of them over 3,500 years for our new book, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World
How two brothers saved their dad's restaurant from ruin
Mangal II: Stories and Recipes tells how a neighbourhood restaurant, loved by artists Gilbert & George, survived against all odds
It’s official - Ben Mims has the best job in the world
The author of Crumbs: Cookies and Sweets from Around the World researched and ‘tested’ cookies for years, in order to create our latest food bible
How Sybil and David Yurman redefined the concept of 10,000 hours
Our new book Sybil and David Yurman: Artists and Jewelers describes the skill, inspiration, and hard work the artist couple put into reinventing American jewelry
The architecture of optimism
Glamourous, forward thinking and expressive, the buildings in Atlas of Mid-Century Masterpieces reflect an era when the world was full of hope
Take a look inside the east London café that became a hit with the international fashion crowd
Chic, informal, and with a fascinating back story, Café Cecila is so much more than a neighbourhood restaurant
The hidden history of graphics
Our new book Graphic Classics features many of the unsung heroes of graphic design alongside new designers – it’s time you knew about them
Sterling Ruby: 'In America, often the response to negative aspects of the system is to retreat to platitudes about morals and family values. In this way nothing is achieved.'
In this interview with the international curator and former MoMA PS1 Director Kate Fowle, Sterling Ruby reflects on the world, his work, and his rural upbringing.
Kerry James Marshall: 'I never think of artworks as intended to mobilise people to action. But they do put questions in the mind of a viewer that they may not have entertained before.'
The acclaimed painter is in conversation with Charles Gaines in his new Contemporary Artist Series monograph.
Yayoi Kusama on Sixties New York, Surviving Mental Illness and Why She's Never Thought About Feminism
Kusama talks about the early days with Donald Judd and Lucio Fontana, how she’s made a habit of dramatic shifts in style, her salvation through self-obliteration, and why what she did so often ended in scandal.
Louis Poulsen celebrates its 150th anniversary at Copenhagen's 3daysofdesign
TF Chan, author of our new book Louis Poulsen: First House of Light, is among guests at the design event
A compelling portrait of the man behind many of the best portraits ever taken
Jonathan Becker is one of the great visual storytellers of our time, our new book Lost Time collects photographs from across his career, charting his journeys in New York, Paris, and London from the 1970s to the 2010s
The story behind David Yurman's cable bracelet
Yurman's most famous piece was the result of a simple question: Would Sybil like it?
Phaidon chef authors win big at The World's 50 Best Restaurants and James Beard Awards
The 2024 awards see our food book stars recognised and rewarded
The story behind Alexander Girard's wooden figures and more
Our new book, Alexander Girard: Let The Sun In, focuses on the designer's work with George Nelson, Charles & Ray Eames and other mid-century modernists
Phaidon and Sotheby’s celebrate the publication of Peter Marino’s latest book Ten Modern Houses
Artists Genesis Tramaine and Nicole Wittenberg, collectors Carol Saper and Georgina Brandolini d’Adda, and writer Bob Colacello are among guests at the New York event.
Spring snapshot: highlights from this season’s events
Mario Sorrenti, Marc Jacobs, Martin Parr, Peter Marino and a host of special guests celebrate Phaidon books at special events
Why Mickalene Thomas is so hot right now
With a show at The Broad, countless awards, and glowing press profiles, it's all snapping into focus for one of our favourite artists.
Announcing the sixth volume of the acclaimed Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné
The latest volume in the series covers Warhol's paintings and sculptures from mid-1977 to 1980
The story behind Andy Warhol's Heart paintings
Volume 6 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné documents the enormously inventive period of Warhol’s career from mid-1977-1980, including his two series of Heart paintings
The Story behind Andy Warhol's Portraits of Liza Minnelli
Volume 6 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné traces the enormously inventive period of Warhol’s career from mid-1977-1980, including his flourishing portrait practice, with sitters such as Liza Minnelli and Truman Capote documented in this new volume
The story behind Andy Warhol's BMW Art Car
Our new Catalogue Raisonné traces the enormously inventive period of Warhol’s career from mid-1977 to 1980 - Andy's Art Car is just one of the many works discussed
Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin tell you about their new book the Atlas of Never Built Architecture
Museums, art galleries, cemeteries, churches, bridges, skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, opera houses, and even a theatre boat that looks a bit like a UFO - imagine how different our world might have looked
The Tulip Garden author Polly Nicholson on the colours, the culture, and the rare bulb that costs more than a house
Nicholson started cultivating tulips15 years ago, and now has the largest collection of historic tulips in the UK. We asked her about her fascinating journey
Phaidon authors introduced their books at events in the US and Europe
Massimo Bottura, Dr. Todd Boyd, Linda Evangelista, and Magnus Resch presented their beautiful books in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles.
Diane von Furstenberg teams up with Target
The fashion legend and Own It author creates annual spring limited time offer
Martin Parr talks tells us about Fashion Faux Parr
Vogue, Gucci, (no Fiorucci) - the photographer's new book captures 30 years of his fashion photography
Duccio Malagamba on how he photographs Álvaro Siza buildings
The acclaimed architectural photographer tells us about new book Before / After
Thinking of buying art? Buy this book first!
How To Collect Art by Magnus Resch redefines how to buy art in the 21st century - for beginner and battle-scarred collector alike
Meet the artists making text-based art a thing
Our new book Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art features over a hundred artists working across the globe in a medium that’s way older than you think
Tattoo You introduces the artists turning the body into an art gallery
Almost a third of Americans and a quarter of Brits have a tattoo - our new book celebrates the artists who turned a subculture into popular culture
Want to start buying art? Then you really need this book
Magnus Resch has sought the advice of collectors, gallery owners, critics, and curators for his new book How to Collect Art
How Turner Duckworth created the Amazon 'smile' logo
Our new book I Love It What Is It lays bare the fascinating stories behind the brilliant branding done by the design company
Rapper's Deluxe tells the story of hip hop in a way that’s never been done before
Our new book traces the cultural movement from its humble underground origins through to its influence on the worlds of art, fashion, film, media, and more
Cerith Wyn Evans releases new Phaidon, Artspace, & White Cube edition
The acclaimed artist says his new print edition is “a threshold of sorts, where ambiguity is encouraged.”
Nick Waplington tells us how he got this photograph which is now a Phaidon limited edition
Untitled (Superman and Rabbit), 1989 (2023) was part of the esteemed photographer's highly acclaimed Living Room project
