Are Herman Miller’s posters as enduring as its chairs?

MoMA and the Smithsonian seem to think so. Here’s the story behind the company’s poppy summer picnic graphics

The 1970 poster for Herman Miller's summer picnic, by Steve Frykholm, as reproduced in Herman Miller: A Way of Living

The eclipse that proved Einstein was right - 100 years ago

Shifting of starlight around the sun – seen 100 years ago today – proved our universe wasn't stable

The 29 May 1919 solar eclipse, as shown in the report of Sir Arthur Eddington on the expedition to verify Albert Einstein's prediction of the bending of light around the sun. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

'Don’t shoot!' Trevor Paglen's impassioned plea to the NSA

The artist recalls the time he took a 'perfectly legal' photography flight over the institution's Maryland headquarters

Trevor Paglen. Image courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Marc and Grace find the perfect outfit for their NYC signings

Fans came to meet the authors, but stayed to pick up t-shirts, sweatshirts and sticker packs themed around our book

Marc Jacobs and Grace Coddington at their New York signing. Photograph by Jim Shi, courtesy of his Instagram @jshi809

Jane Hornby's Simple & Classic dish for National Burger Day

These chimichurri-style burgers from Simple & Classic add a Latin American twist to the bun and patty combo

Chimichurri-style burgers by Jane Hornby from Simple & Classic. Photography by Liz and Max Haarala Hamilton

The Palm Springs home that gave us desert modernism

Albert Frey helped bring modernism to the Californian desert. Can you tell from his perfectly appointed lounge?

Albert Frey (designer and client) Frey House II, living room, Palm Springs, CA, USA, completed 1964. Photo  by Darren Bradley

MATCHESFASHION.COM Blooms for Chelsea Flower Show

The fashion retailer hosted some of the world’s best floral designers for the launch of our new book Blooms

London partygoers inspect our new book Blooms beside Scarlet & Violet's display at 5 Carlos Place, London

Try this easy BBQ hack for Memorial Day

Want to cook with the kids but don’t want them around hot coals? Try this slow-cooker shoulder of pork recipe

Slow-cooker pork shoulder, from United Tastes of America

Paris loves the Putnams

Darroch and Mikey shared their floral artistry with the clientele of the Parisian ceramics boutique Astier de Villatte

Mikey and Darroch Putnam at  Astier de Villatte in Paris

Phaidon books win at D&AD!

Lucian Freud and Japan: The Cookbook pick up prizes at the global design awards alongside Nike and the NY Times

Japan: The Cookbook, a winning book at last night's D&AD awards

Seriously, have the Contra chefs just launched a podcast?

Jeremiah Stone and Fabian Von Hauske talk food, wine, and ‘other nonsense’ with fellow industry insiders

Fabian von Hauske and Jeremiah Stone; image courtesy of their podcast Istagram @elfabandjerryshow

Enrique Olvera really loves small producers!

These illustrations for Olvera's Pujol restaurant, by Diego Martínez, show the chef is on the little guy's side

Maize in Pujol's new illustrations, by Diego Martínez. All illustrations courtesy of the artist

A birthday song for Martin Parr

In his humorous tribute, John Shuttleworth wonders when the Magnum photographer will start taking ‘proper’ pictures

Martin Parr, online dating profile picture, Hey Saturday, London, England, 2016. From Only Human:  Photographs by Martin Parr

The Putnams hit the Chelsea Flower Show

Darroch and Michael take in Britain’s most prestigious horticultural show on their mini Euro tour

Darroch and Mickey Putnam at the Chelsea Flower Show, London, May 2019. Image courtesy of Putnam & Putnam's Instagram

Phaidon introductions: Carolina Irving on good and bad taste

The Interiors writer and textile company founder talks about falling foul of 'the chic police'

Carolina Irving at our Interiors launch in London earlier this month

Marc Jacobs bought this house (but the car didn’t come with it)

Nevertheless, Jacobs’ Frank Lloyd Wright house in Rye, NY State, is still a mid-century modern masterpiece

Porsche 356, house of Maximilian E. Hoffman, Rye, 2018, Porsche AG

The riot that made it into Art & Queer Culture

No, this isn’t about the Stone Wall Tavern. Our book looks back at the 40th anniversary of the White Night Riots

White Night Riots, San Francisco, 1979, by Daniel Nicoletta, as reproduced in Art & Queer Culture

Niki Lauda - the man who saved Ferrari

Our book Ferrari: Under the Skin, describes how the driver pulled the Scuderia out of the pits in the 1970s

Clay Regazzoni (left) and Niki Lauda (centre) were teammates at Ferrari in the 1970s. With them is a very relaxed Enzo Ferrari at the launch of the 312T, Maranello, 1976. As reproduced in Ferrari: Under the Skin

Virgilio Martínez and Gordon Ramsay go wild in the Andes

The Peruvian chef helps Ramsay shoot an episode of new TV show, Uncharted, in the South American highlands

Ramsay and Virgilio in the trailer for Uncharted

The room where Britain met the Bauhaus

Inside London's Isokon Building, Walter Gropius and his friends helped change a nation's design culture

Isokon penthouse by Wells Coats, from Interiors

A perfect dish for World Bee Day

In The Garden Chef, Christopher Kostow combines beeswax with fresh potatoes and wild oxalis flowers

Potato cooked in beeswax, from The Garden Chef

Is this what Stephen Shore thinks of London?

A dog, a pub and a pea-green soup featured in the Instagram posts from his Photo London trip - oh dear. . .

London, 2019 by Stephen Shore. Courtesy of the photographer's Instagram

Got time to unwind in our new reading room?

We’ve teamed up with Herman Miller to create a place to ponder great books inside the TWA Hotel at JFK

Our Herman Miller reading room at the TWA Terminal

I.M. Pei 1917 - 2019

The Chinese-American architect died yesterday - we celebrate his life in 5 of his greatest buildings

I. M. Pei at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington, D.C., 1978 - Photographed by Ezra Stoller courtesy and copyright © Esto (from our forthcoming book Ezra Stoller)

Here’s why you should touch the work at Snarkitecture’s show

New York show, Sway, reminds visitors of play, with a sea of lights that react to movement and touch

Snarkitecture's at Alex Mustonen in Sway in New York. Images courtesy of Snarkitecture

Massimo Bottura cooks for Dapper Dan in Harlem

The Italian chef rubbed shoulders with the New York designer at this year’s annual Harlem Meat Up

Marcus Samuelsson, Massimo Bottura, Gucci's Marco Bizzarri, and Dapper Dan. Image courtesy of Food for Soul's Instagram

Martin Parr and Nan Goldin show different sides of Versailles

The palace’s 2019 exhibition features the work of photographers who capture the place in new ways


JR’s new mural lets you talk to the crowds of San Francisco

The new SFMOMA work, opening next week, allows local citizens, from the richest to the poorest, to tell their story

JR, The Chronicles of San Francisco, 2018 (detail); photo: courtesy JR-art.net, and SFMOMA

Elmgreen & Dragset talk art and books in Berlin

The artists came to König Galerie in Berlin to chat with the people who helped them make their new Phaidon book

Michael Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset, Michele Robecchi and Martin Herbert at König Galerie in Berlin

Is Jeff Koons on a par with Duchamp?

Christie’s set a new record when it sold Koons's Rabbit last night. Is it time we viewed him as Duchamp’s equal?

Bids being taken for Rabbit (1986) by Jeff Koons, at Christie's last night. The piece went for $91,075,000, setting a new record for a work by a living artist sold at auction. Image courtesy of Christie's

The forgotten photographer of NYC's queer piers

The Bronx Museum of Art is mounting the first large-scale retrospective of New York photographer Alvin Baltrop

Alvin Baltrop, Untitled (Portrait of Marsha P. Johnson), n.d. Silver gelatin print. Private Collection. All images courtesy of the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Phaidon Introductions: Jeremy Charles on Newfoundland

The restaurateur shares childhood memories of his early morning dashes to the bay to collect the fresh fish haul

Jeremy Charles, chef and Phaidon author

Herman Miller lays out its design history in NYC

A new exhibition shows the evolution of America’s leading modernist design firm - in time for NYCxDesign

Living Office presentation at Herman Miller Showroom, Chicago, during NeoCon trade fair, 2015.  All images from Herman Miller: A Way of Living, courtesy and copyright © Herman Miller Archives.

Harland Miller launches In Shadows I Boogie at White Cube

Ron Wood, Gary Lineker and Jarvis Cocker all turn up to say hello and get their books signed

Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, Harland Miller and Wood's wife Sally Humphreys

The room that inspired Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's home became a story in itself thanks to director Orson Welles

Julia Morgan, Hearst Castle, for William Randolph Hearst, Doge’s Suite, San Simeon, CA, USA, completed 1947. Shutterstock/gnohz, as reproduced in Interiors

What do Koons and Duchamp have in common?

A new exhibition looks at the ways in which the work of these two art giants shares a world view

Fountain (1917, edition 1964) by Marcel Duchamp, and Moon (Light Blue) (1995-2000) by Jeff Koons, as featured on the cover of Appearance Stripped Bare

Virgilio Martínez guides the New York Times around Lima

From ice-cream parlours to ceramics, the chef picks out some highlights in his artsy new Lima neighbourhood

Central chef and author Virgilio Martínez

Phaidon Introductions: Snøhetta on the backstories it creates

The world-famous practice explains why, when it comes to creating great buildings, narrative comes first

Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, 2008, Oslo, Norway, by Snøhetta. Photo by Jiri Havran. From Snøhetta: Collective Intuition.

Talking Textiles with Shoplifter

Vitamin T artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir's installation in the Icelandic pavilion is the hit of the Venice Biennale

Shoplifter photographed in her studio by Elisabet Davidsdottir

Mark Bradford is on 60 Minutes this Sunday

"I'm creating my own archaeological digs," he tells Anderson Cooper. "Sometimes when I'm digging on my own painting I'm asking myself, 'Well, exactly what are you digging for? Where do you want to go child?'"

Mark Bradford interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes

From the tomb to the Moon

Why is one of the earliest astrological maps drawn onto an Egyptian tomb ceiling? Sun and Moon explains

Detail from facsimile of the astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Senenmut, tempera on paper by Charles K. Wilkinson, original c.1479–1458 BC. Courtesy of Rogers Fund, 1948. From Sun and Moon

Breakfast in Japan

Japanese author Harumi Kurihara says her mother taught her the importance of making the first meal of the day

Clockwise from top left: quick pickled vegetables; rolled omelet; toast with sweet red bean spread; grilled fish; rice with natto; rice with raw eggs; miso soup, from the Japanese pages of Breakfast: The Cookbook

Why do Elmgreen & Dragset like swimming pools so much?

David Hockney, the shrinking public space, and being semi-naked around strangers feed into the motif

Van Gogh’s Ear, 2016, fibreglass, stainless steel, lacquer, lights, 900 x 500 x 240 cm, installation view at Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens, New York, 2016, organized by Public Art Fund and Tishman Speyer. Artwork © Elmgreen & Dragset

Phaidon Introductions: José Andrés on the joy of tapas

The Spanish chef and philanthropist explains why, when it comes to small-plate dining, size definitely matters

A selection of fish tapas from The Book of Tapas

The race to shoot the Moon

Mark Holborn's new book describes the lengths 19th century star gazers went to in order to depict the Moon

Sir John Herschel, Model of the Lunar Crater Copernicus, 1842, calotype, 13 × 16.5 cm (5¼ × 6½ in), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. Image courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, California. As reproduced in Sun and Moon

Breakfast in France

The Parisian cookbook writer Clotilde Dusoulier explains why the French prefer thoughtful choices for breakfast

Clockwise from top left: brioche; café au lait; pains au chocolat; tartine; croissants; almond croissants, from the French pages of Breakfast: The Cookbook

Phaidon Introductions: Michael Bracewell on Harland Miller

The critic and curator sees pop art, abstract expressionist influences and much more in the artist’s pictures

Harland Miller. Photo by George Darrell

The apartment where Yves Klein turned décor into art

The French artist introduced some of his best-known motifs into his Parisian home - including the idea of the void

Yves Klein (designer and client), Klein Residence, living room, Paris, France, completed 1949. François Coquerel © Succession Yves Klein c/o DACS 2019

Kim Kardashian dips into the Mugler archive for the Met Gala

The social-media star teamed up with Mugler, wearing a wet-look dress based on pieces from the designer's archive

Kim Kardashian in Mugler, at the Met Gala 2019. Image courtesy of Kim Kardashian's Instagram

Magnus Nilsson is closing Fäviken

After 10 very successful years Magnus will close the restaurant on December 14 (and yes, it's too late to book)

Magnus Nilsson. Photo by Erik Olsson

Phaidon introductions: Peter Meehan on Enrique Olvera

The LA Times’ food editor says Enrique believes the family that eats and cooks together eats and lives better

Enrique Olvera

Got time for our editor-at-large's new podcast?

Spencer Bailey has a great new interview series, focusing on people who have a distinct perspective on time

The Time Sensitive studio

Why today is actually Sun Day

Jimmy Carter might have linked the third of May to solar power, but the Sun has been central to earlier civilisations

Bowl with courtly and astrological motifs from northern Iran, stonepaste with polychromatic inglaze and overglaze, painted and gilded, late twelfth or early thirteenth century. Mercury is represented as a scribe with a scroll, Venus as a female musician, Saturn as an old man with a pick axe, Jupiter as a judge in a turban, Mars as a warrior with a severed head, the Sun as a figure with a solar disc, and the Moon as a figure with a lunar crescent. As reproduced in Sun & Moon

A perfect party dish for Cinco de Mayo

You’ll need a little time to make it - and a lot of friends to help you eat this authentic Mexican party recipe

Cartinas, as reproduced in Tu Casa Mi Casa


Entertaining this weekend? Try Jane Hornby's spring menu

Spring's here, so why not cook this easy, seasonal, three-course menu, from Jane's new book Simple & Classic

Asparagus  and poached egg with balsamic butter, from Simple Classic by Jane Hornby

Emily Thompson - Not your Grandmother's Florist

The sculptor-turned-floral designer on how the histories of art, architecture, music and dance inspire her work

Emily Thompson Flowers (Emily Thomson, New York): smoke bush (Cotinus), snake garlic scapes and turkscap lilies. Image courtesy Emily Thompson Flowers / Photograph by Mia Soojung Kim

The winning shot from our East Coast architecture guide

This garage might be on the eastern seaboard, but that hasn’t stopped an LA association from recognising it

Smithfield Liberty Garage, Altenhof and Bown, photograph by Darren Bradley. As featured in Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast

Breakfast in Britain

While he admits to his nation’s culinary shortcomings Sportsman chef Stephen Harris does love a Full English

Clockwise from top left: Full English; breakfast roll; laverbread and cockles; full English variation; pour-over coffee; egg and soldiers; from the English breakfast pages of Breakfast: The Cookbook

Prabhavathi Meppayil at Pace

Arne Glimcher has drawn parallels between the Bangalore artist and Agnes Martin - we asked her about them


Could textiles win the Turner Prize?

Oscar Murillo has been shortlisted for this prize, thanks in part to his vulnerable, ripped and cut surfaces

Oscar Murillo, Violent Amnesia 2019 at Kettle’s Yard. All images courtesy of the Tate

Should we look at deep space images as works of art?

The Hubble Telescope's photos are as mediated as anything created by a contemporary artist writes Mark Holborn

Hubble view of M16, the Eagle Nebula, an actively star-forming gaseous region 7,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. The structure shown was first recorded through Hubble by Jeff Hester and his team from Arizona State University in 1995. This view is the most detailed image yet obtained of the Eagle Nebula. As reproduced in Sun and Moon

How Annie Leibovitz pictured Sally Mann’s sense of place

On Mann's birthday, we look at how tactfully Leibovitz approached her fellow photographer, on Mann's home turf

Sally Mann, Lexington, Virginia, 2015. Photograph © Annie Leibovitz. From ‘Annie Leibovitz At Work’

Phaidon Introductions: Musa Dağdeviren on food and family

The Turkish cookbook author understands his country's culinary traditions are heavily intertwined with his own story

Musa Dağdeviren, author of the Turkish Cookbook

Do you know about the jazzy side of these artists?

On International Jazz Day take an instrumental break with Robert Ryman, Theaster Gates, Alex Katz and Anri Sala

Theaster Gates (right) as reproduced in our Contemporary Artists Series book on the artist

Matt Abergel's book has just won a James Beard Award!

Chicken and Charcoal has been voted the best 2019 book in James Beard's restaurant and professional category

Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong, by Matt Abergel

Breakfast in America

Chef Jason Hammel explains why cooking over-easy eggs is just a little bit like catching a baseball

Clockwise from top left: toasted cornflakes; everything bagel with cream cheese and lox; pour-over coffee; orange juice; blueberry pancakes; the diner breakfast; diner toast; bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich, from the American breakfast pages of Breakfast: The Cookbook

Suprematism and the Space Race

Mark Holborn’s new book looks at image making, the celestial realm, and its repercussions back on earth

'Earthrise’ – a photograph taken from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve, 1968 by William Anders. Image courtesy of NASA. From Sun and Moon

Did you know that artist architecture is a thing?

There are plenty of places made by artists in our book Houses (but you might not want to live in some of them...)

House for Essex, 2015, by Grayson Perry and FAT. As featured in Houses: Extraordinary Living

Why we might have misread Delacroix’s most famous painting

On the artist's birthday, we reassess this great work, via Judy Sund's new book Exotic: A Fetish for the Foreign

The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugène Delacroix, as featured in Exotic

The bachelor pad where Cary Grant shaped beach house style

Any interiors aesthete who kicks back at the beach should thank mid-century movie stars Grant and Randolph Scott

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott

Ben Affleck will direct a movie about Ellsworth Kelly’s war

The Hollywood star has signed up to both star in and lens a film about Kelly’s camouflage unit, The Ghost Army

From left: Ben Affleck (photograph by Gage Skidmore), Ellsworth Kelly (photograph by Jack Shear)

Tu Casa Mi Casa co-author wins World's Best Female Chef

The Mexican-born swimmer turned culinary protégée Daniela Soto-Innes just won the World’s 50 Best Award

Daniela Soto-Innes, co-author of Tu Casa Mi Casa: Mexican Recipes for the Home Cook, winner of the elit™ Vodka World's Best Female Chef 2019, and one of the New York Times' 15 Creative Women for Our Time

Phaidon Introductions: Sofia Coppola on Marc Jacobs

The film director describes how the designer influenced her films and supercharged her social life

“This drawing is of me in my favorite bubble-gum-pink Comme des Garçons polo-shirt dress and my Pilgrim-inspired shoes, with Neville draped over my shoulders.” Marc Jacobs by Grace Coddington, from Marc Jacobs Illustrated

Turn old food into great new dishes on Stop Food Waste Day

Our new titles Breakfast: The Cookbook and Tu Casa Mi Casa have some wonderful uses for ordinary leftovers

Chickpea and torn bread stew, from Breakfast: The Cookbook

The villa where Jean Cocteau communed with the Gods

Our new book Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century features a Godly work created by the poet and filmmaker

Villa Santo Sospir, photograph by Loïc Thébaud, loicthebaud.com

On World Book Day get the kids reading AND cooking!

My First Cookbooks give you pancakes, pizzas, tacos and cookies, as well as literacy and numeracy, all in one box

My First Cookbooks

JR profiles Massimo for Time’s 100 Most Influential list

The French artist and activist says that when he’s with the chef 'we feel like we can do anything in the world!'

JR and Massimo at the entrance to the new Refettorio Paris. Image courtesy of Massimo's Instagram

Phaidon Introductions: Grayson Perry on Martin Parr

Kicking off a new series, the artist recalls the first time he was blinded by Parr's flash 'and decked in saturated colour'

The Perry Family – daughter Florence, Philippa and Grayson, London, England, 2012, by Martin Parr. All images taken from Only Human: Photographs by Martin Parr © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

Marc Jacobs remembers 2011

It was just eight years ago, so why did one photographer tell Marc he'd 'seen the Seventies flash before my eyes'?

Spring / Summer 2011, designs Marc Jacobs, drawings Grace Coddington.Drawing © 2019 Grace Coddington / typography and book design by Takaaki Matsumoto. From Marc Jacobs Illustrated

The wooden sculpture created to show Christ’s death

At Easter we look at a work of devotional art from our newly updated book 30,000 Years of Art

Deposition of Christ, artist unknown (c. 1150), Musée National du Moyen, France. As featured in 30,000 Years of Art

MetaFlora - Not your Grandmother's Florist

New York dancer turned floral artist Marisa Competello enjoys the moment when flowers stop resembling flowers. . .

Metaflora's graphically arranged materials

Marc Jacobs remembers 2004

John Currin, Rachel Feinstein and Jodie Kidd all feature in Jacobs’ early noughties recollections

Spring / Summer 2004 (left), Fall / Winter 2004 (right), designs Marc Jacobs, drawings Grace Coddington. As reproduced in Marc Jacobs Illustrated

The house where Salvador Dalí found peace

This modest fisherman’s cottage morphed into a work of surrealism, serving as the artist’s home for half a century

Salvador Dalí's humble fisherman’s cottage in Portlligat as featured in Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Martin Parr just sent his new book to the queen!

'I have the honour to remain your majesty's most humble and obedient servant,' the photographer writes

Martin Parr's copy of Only Human signed personally to her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II

Talking Textiles with Anne Wilson

Cloth's ubiquity, and its close proximity to bodies, is its great strength and great challenge says this Chicago artist

Anne Wilson in the studio

The Madness at the heart of Elmgreen & Dragset's new show

The Scandinavian art duo have found something perfectly spooky in a Danish painter's muted, grey interiors

Interior, Strandgade 30 (1906-8) by Vilhelm Hammershøi. All images courtesy of smk.dk

Vince Aletti’s trick for keeping his magazine collection fresh

The writer and collector tells the New Yorker how he manages to stay engaged with his voluminous stacks of print

Vince Aletti photographed by Steven Haas

A Phaidon author witnesses the Notre Dame fire

Our architectural writer was on hand as the flames engulfed the medieval French cathedral. Here’s what he saw

The Notre Dame fire. Photograph by William Hall. Copyright William Hall

Breakfast in Australia

Aussie restaurateur Bill Granger describes the development of the great Australian breakfast in our new book

Clockwise From top left: toast with Vegemite; flat white; corn fritters with lox and poached eggs; muesli; ginger-turmeric juice; toast with Vegemite and avocado; banana bread; green juice. As featured on the Australian breakfast pages of Breakfast: The Cookbook

Queer Eye's Antoni guests on Putnam & Putnam's Podcast

Darroch and Mikey Putnam talk first jobs, tattoos, and TV success with one of the stars of the Netflix hit series

Antoni, as he appears on the image for Putnam & Putnam's latest podcast episode

The dish that made our Turkish Cookbook author cry

Find out how chef Musa Dağdeviren became aware of the emotional power of home cooking

Musa Dağdeviren, author of the Turkish Cookbook

Take a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest portrait

On the anniversary of the Renaissance master’s birth, we highlight his incredible early skill in 30,000 Years of Art

Ginevra de’ Benci (c. 1475) by Leonardo da Vinci, as reproduced in 30,000 Years of Art

Marc Jacobs remembers 1995

Kate Moss, Guy Bourdin and the Beastie Boys feature in Marc’s Nineties memories

Spring/Summer 1995 (left) and Fall/Winter 1995 (right), designs Marc Jacobs, drawings Grace Coddington. © 2019 Grace Coddington / typography and book design by Takaaki Matsumoto.

Art & Queer Culture is on show in the first gender-free store

Our primer on queer art takes pride of place in the windows at The Phluid Project, a new boutique in Manhattan

Art & Queer Culture on display in the windows of The Phluid Project, Manhattan

Verner Panton’s Bond villain chair goes back into production

The Pantonova series was originally made for a Danish restaurant, but later found fame in a bad guy's lair

Pantonova by Verner Panton, in production again thanks to Montana. Images courtesy of Montana

Breakfast in the Nordic region

Want a hearty, Northern European start to your day? Then try a few new dishes from Breakfast: The Cookbook

Clockwise from top left: Brown cheese sandwich; filmjölk; Danish pastry; cardamom buns; crispbread with smoked cod roe spread; ymerdrys; ymer with ymerdrys; all from the Nordic pages of Breakfast: The Cookbook

Mark Bradford’s ark is heading for Shanghai

The artist's 2008 ark-like sculpture, Mithra, will feature in Bradford’s largest show in China, later this summer

Mithra (2008) by Mark Bradford. Installation view at Prospect 1, New Orleans. As reproduced in our Mark Bradford book

What to catch at Milan Design Week

Phaidon designers are filling 2019's Salone del Mobile with smart answers to today’s design problems

All Together Now by Herman Miller, photo by Nicholas Calcott

ODORANTES - Not Your Grandmother's Florist

Parisian floral artists Emmanuel Sammartino and Christophe Hervé share a passion for antique roses - find out why

A floral arrangement by Odorantes, Paris