Ezra Petronio’s constellation of cultural icons caught on Polaroid
25 years of breath taking imagery are celebrated in Visual Thinking & Image Making, the new book by the creative visionary
How Ronan Bouroullec inspires himself Day After Day
The Paris designer has been drawing and photographing anything and everything every day for the last ten years. Now you can see the results
A micro guide to Maximalism
Loud, and louche, chaotic and colorful, but imbued with personality and passion, our new book is as much about attitude as it is about style
Phaidon's Interiors 100
Phaidon's ever expanding interiors list is the latest success in our 100 year history
Phaidon's Better Living 100
Smart advice on partying, gifting, and eating well, self-help for home and office life, alongside pithy words of artistic wisdom, (and you thought we just did ‘coffee table’ books!)
Mandy El-Sayegh - Why I Make Collage
'The cuts have already been made by life. I, as an agent of reassembly, am just selecting those cut things,' says the London-based artist featured in Vitamin C+
Michael Raedecker on Art, Life, & Everything In Between
The absence of human presence in this Dutch artist’s woven paintings invite us to contemplate architecture as a mental or emotional space
Phaidon's Architecture 100
Minimalists, maximalists, brutalists and postmodernists - Phaidon’s architecture list was rebuilt in recent years to become the best looking on the block
Phaidon's Photography 100
Fashion, fine art, underwater worlds and the human experience - our photography list captures the decisive moment in a flash
Phaidon's Fashion & Pop Culture 100
How couture, culture and creativity got a well-considered makeover on our publishing list
Look inside Craig's closet at the NYC AIDS Memorial Park
A new Jim Hodges installation recognises the resilience and courage of those who've lost loved ones
Phaidon's Food 100
The food and drinks books we’ve chosen to celebrate 100 years of creativity are the epitome of good taste
Gaetano Pesce on Art, Life, & Everything In Between
For this Italian artist, designer, and architect, right angles are wrong angles; his charming works challenge the monotony of modernity
Phaidon's Design 100
The best designs in the world deserve the best-designed books in the world. Here are just a few of them
Georgie Hopton - Why I Make Collage
The Vitamin C+ featured artist tells us how with collage, accidents rarely seem like failures
The Reunion: Jeremy Chan and David Thulstrup
Both have Phaidon books right now, and earlier this week they told us the story behind their latest project together - the new Ikoyi restaurant
Arturo Herrera - Why I Make Collage
The Caracas-born, Berlin-based artist tells us about his 'ready-made, contaminated modernist' artworks
Eva Stenram - Why I Make Collage
The Vitamin C+ featured artist works with computers and scanners to create folds in space and time
Lucas Blalock - Why I Make Collage
The Vitamin C+ featured artist's collaged compositions exist in an ever-shifting middle ground between abstract and figurative
Thomas Hirschhorn - Why I Make Collage
The Vitamin C+ featured artist explains how he wants to create a new world within our existing one
John Stezaker - Why I Make Collage
The Vitamin C+ featured legend on why collage is like a card game, early inspirations, and discovering his first collage among his mother's personal effects
Some things we learned from Chefwise
From dishwashers to hangovers, parental influence to social media overload, our new book of famous chefs’ advice tells you all the stuff they don’t teach you in culinary school
Why you shouldn’t call Ikoyi an African restaurant
Jeremy Chan may draw on the culinary traditions of West Africa, but his culinary influences are as mixed and spicy as a bowl of jollof rice
Rashaad Newsome - Why I Make Collage
The Vitamin C+ featured artist talks immediacy, accessibility and the Black American experience
How a deep sense of humanity gave Manoella ‘Manu’ Buffara her culinary edge
A love of both food and people has enabled this chef to create a world-beating restaurant in her Brazilian hometown
Nancy Singleton Hachisu’s intercontinental journey to culinary enlightenment
Discover how this Californian author found quiet in Japanese vegetarian cookery
A book in the metaverse
On the eve of the publication of INTERNET_ART, the book’s author, Dr. Omar Kholeif aka the avatar of Dr. O, reflects on how books are the recurring constant in and of the metaverse
Simon Moretti - Why I Make Collage
'Collage allows us to quickly place things together and communicate a hidden message from the unconscious,' says the London-based artist featured in Vitamin C+
This author’s new cookbook also tells the story of her life
Writer and chef Petty Pandean-Elliott’s own culinary and cultural experience run through the pages of The Indonesian Table
Because the Internet, I Stream Music
Dr. Omar Kholeif, aka the avatar of Dr. O, debates the impact of the internet on music, and the artists who’ve pushed boundaries online
Zen and the art of Japanese vegetarianism
In Japan: The Vegetarian Cookbook, author Nancy Singleton Hachisu traces the lineage of plant-based cookery from monasteries to the mainstream
At Manu you’ll never eat the same meal twice
In her new book, patron chef Manoella ‘Manu’ Buffara reveals how moments of change (and years of preparation) feed into her singular Brazilian restaurant
In The Indonesian Table, a nation is united in its diversity
Author and chef Petty Pandean-Elliott describes how a land of 17,000 islands and 700 languages offers near-limitless culinary variety
Take a foodie trip through Southern Brazil, with Manoella ‘Manu’ Buffara
Latin America’s Best Female Chef's new book serves as a gastronomic travel guide to this remarkable corner of the world
Piet Oudolf on new perennials, tricky commissions, and the gardens that have given him the most pleasure over the years
In the final part of our interview with the Dutch garden designer he talks about his first commission in the UK and the gardens he's planting in Chicago and Philadelphia at this moment
Piet Oudolf on climate change, working with starchitects, and his increasingly complex planting schemes
In the second part of our interview with the Dutch garden artist he talks about working with Peter Zumthor, how climate change does and doesn’t affect his planting, and the most important part of his job (it’s not what you think it is)
'I want INTERNET_ART to sit alongside Phaidon's The Story of Art in 50 years’ time and still have resonance as a historical document'
In the final part of our interview with curator and writer Dr. Omar Kholeif they take us through the world of NFTs and Blockchain technology, and give us an insight into what the future will be for contemporary culture in the internet age
Garden star Piet Oudolf tells us about 'seasonal emotionalism', how to coax 36,000 plants into life, and why you shouldn’t call him an artist (although he definitely is)
In the first part of our interview with the Dutch garden design legend he describes his incredible journey from selling Christmas trees to receiving international gallery commissions, all of which bloom brightly in his new Phaidon book
Who shapes digital culture, and how?
'I programmed myself to collaborate with code, templates and machines’ says Dr. Omar Kholeif, author of INTERNET_ART, as they outline the key drivers of our digital multiverse
Dr. Omar Kholeif’s Crystal Ball Drop
Omar Kholeif speaks to Phaidon.com through their avatar, Dr. O, giving the low-down on everything from content creation to NFTs
Who are the pioneers of internet art? Here's Dr. Omar Kholeif to tell you
The author of our new book INTERNET_ART takes readers on a journey through networked culture
Dr. Omar Kholeif: ‘I wrote pretty much every chapter of INTERNET_ART by hand - using a fountain pen!’
How a standing desk, a Rachmaninoff concerto, and the motivation of a film producer friend helped Omar Kholeif create the defining book on visual networked culture
Meet Dr. Omar Kholeif – the person spearheading the conversation on art and digital culture
In the first part of our interview with the author of INTERNET_ART we learn how the curator has defined networked culture over the last 30 years in their own, highly personal, way
Harland Miller: 'I've always loved high and low culture. This painting perfectly encapsulates both, more than any painting I've made.'
The artist tells us all about his new Phaidon & Artspace limited edition, Hz So Good, 2022
Harland Miller teams up with London's ICA for 'Letter Painting' limited edition print
This is how to get exclusive early access to the new launch
Ferran Adrià is about to start selling tickets for the long-awaited elBullifoundation
The acclaimed chef's food lab has been promised since 2017 - it looks like it's finally about to happen
Nan Goldin film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed gets an Oscar nomination
Director Laura Poitras’s film on the life of the artist already won the Golden Lion at Venice - now it's up for the ultimate documentary film accolade
How Piet Oudolf created the most eclectic and intimate garden in the world, in the most populous city in America
Hanging vines, sumac grove and flowering displays dominate the breathtaking High Line above Manhattan
John Pawson’s school days
How brass bands, ‘ridiculous Beatle worship’, beatings at Eton, a preoccupation with sex and 'deplorable modernist influences' all shaped the early life of one of the UK’s greatest architects
Sarah Sze: Painter, Sculptor or Something Else Again?
It’s a question that’s engaged critics and curators consumed by the acclaimed artist’s work. Mark Godfrey, contributor to a new book on Sze, has a really interesting take
Wangechi Mutu launches Phaidon & Artspace limited edition WaterSpirit washed Pelican, 2022
'Working with prints is a kind of archaeography. It's my way to conjure something from the past that can tell me something', she says of the new edition
Dana Schutz's Really Great Year
How her market looked in 2022, the exhibitions and group shows, the institutional firsts, what the critics said and a very limited Artspace edition
Sanya Kantarovsky's Really Great Year
The Russian-born artist has criss-crossed the world with exhibitions, and sparkled at auction in 2022
Mickalene Thomas's Really Great Year
From Broadway to Paris, this important American artist has had a rousing 2022
Cecily Brown's Really Great Year
In 2022, the brilliant, British-born painter wowed us with monumental canvases and much smaller studies too
Ugo Rondinone's Really Great Year
How his market looked in 2022, the exhibitions and group shows, the institutional firsts, what the critics said and a very limited edition
Great gifts for lovers of fashion and pop culture
A magisterial monograph, a perennial classic, a survey of pioneering women, and the sharpest texts on style all feature among our 2022 fashion and pop culture books
Ugo Rondinone, the AIDS crisis, and his mystic creativity
On World AIDS Day, discover how an early tragedy led this important artist to adopt a life-long, creative outlook
Great gifts for gardening and interiors enthusiasts
This December, let your loved one delight in exotic homes, learn the secret of seasonal gardening, and answer the call of the wild
The creative brilliance of George Lois
We look back at the creative visionary's life and work, following his death last week aged 91
Great gifts for design lovers
Beautiful contemporary creations, deep examinations of creative innovators, the climate emergency, Belle Epoque and some of the world’s greatest turntables all feature in our 2022 design list
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Great gifts for food and culinary lovers
Give the gift of new tastes, dietary choices and gastronomic creativity, as well as lots of beloved, traditional recipes, with our 2022 culinary books
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Great gifts for architecture lovers
Lovers of modernism, followers of fashion and those craving the great outdoors will all find something they love this season among our architecture books
Great gifts for art lovers
From magisterial portraits, to wry cartoons, fluffy polar bears to the hottest young prospects within the gallery system, our 2022 art books make for great seasonal gifts
The staying power in the turntable revolution
Audio innovations come and go; our new new history of vinyl players singles out turntables with remarkable staying power
Great gifts to cook, learn and create with
Pick out something special (and beautiful) for the younger book lovers in your life
The desire for beauty in the turntable revolution
Gideon Schwartz tracks the rise of the hi-fi deck, from studio tool to desirable domestic design status symbol
The role of Japan in the turntable revolution
Our new book examines how Japanese firms came to offer affordable record decks, and kindled a love of Japanese engineering among dance music enthusiasts
The vinyl renaissance in the turntable revolution
Once seen as an obsolete format, our new book on turntable design describes how dedicated designers kept the analogue signal alive
The struggle between clunky cabinets and minimalist design in turntable revolution
Our new on the history of record player design chronicles the way some makers liberated the turntable from its timber console
The quest for silence and stereo in in the turntable revolution
Quieter mechanisms and double-cut grooves enabled record players to reach new sonic heights during the 1960s, as Revolution reveals
The sparky, sonic addition of electricity to the turntable revolution
Our new history of turntable design looks at how the advent of radio briefly overshadowed the record player’s prominence
The wild, early days of the turntable revolution
The nascent, pre-electric days of record players was a time of murky-sounding folk songs, laws suits and truly bizarre ways of putting the needle on the record
The Japanese interior bringing timber into the 21st century
Once seen as a product of the past, now wooden homes are among the most fashionable, explains our new book
The Japanese interior where nature is the biggest luxury of all
Our new book considers the global and local influences that have shaped Japan’s world-leading lux interiors
The Japanese interior with lots of storage space but not a doorknob in sight
See how one small and perfectly conceived Tokyo apartment screens off its clutter
The Japanese interior where a single staircase connects three generations
See how, in Tokyo, one famous architectural practice managed to bring together grandparents, parents and grandchildren via one simple design feature
The Japanese interior bringing brutalism to the beach
Poured concrete isn’t just for US public buildings and European car parks. In Japan, it also suits a naturalistic, seaside retreat
The Japanese Interior in the city with the feel of the forest
Take a look at the Tokyo home where fine art meets meets nature and classic minimalism
The Japanese interior filled with holes to let the outside in
Kengo Kuma captured the Lotus House’s natural surroundings both physically and figuratively in this checkerboard-style stone exterior
The Japanese interior where old first met new
One acclaimed architect demolished and rebuilt his home on the same spot before he finally created this near perfect home in 1928
Wangechi Mutu’s hopeful future
By working away at simple, age-old artistic practices, this contemporary artist believes she’s working towards a better tomorrow
Wangechi Mutu’s mutant collages
Though she cut-and-pasted Cola ads together as a student, this Kenyan artist’s collage works serve to upend old cultural and social assumptions
Wangechi Mutu’s Mythical Mothers
The Kenyan artist created her fantastical Water Women series in response to some all-too-real maternal pains
Wangechi Mutu’s protest painting
By referencing action painting and Kenyan feminist protests, Mutu breaks down any barrier between fine art and political concerns
Wangechi Mutu’s African Queens
In an age of toppling statues, this incredible African artist created four regal figures fit for our times
Wangechi Mutu’s Imperial Monsters
In her highly charged video work, the Kenyan artist addresses global ecological fears and a highly personal colonial history
The modernist masters who helped Walter Gropius
Whether it was Klee, Kandinsky or Le Corbusier, the Bauhaus founder had a knack for attracting and sharing his life with other modernist greats
Why Lynda Benglis’s own body is the ultimate guide to her art
From synthetic rubber, to clay to chicken-wire, this acclaimed American sculptor sees the human body as the measure of all things
Landscape and Lynda Benglis
The artist doesn’t quite paint landscapes, but many of her sculptures have been created in response to her natural environment
The dangerous chemicals that could have killed Lynda Benglis
The US sculptor’s work with carcinogenic rubbers and foams drew attention to the interplay between the natural and unnatural world
The way abstract expressionism shaped Lynda Benglis
Discover how the contemporary sculptor’s response to Pollock and his contemporaries influenced art history
The story behind Lynda Benglis’s most shocking image
First published almost half-a-century ago, Benglis’s 1974 photograph for Artforum magazine remains a startlingly frank assertion of sexual freedom
The shared heritage between Palace and Vans
The British skate brand was polite about its collaboration with its Californian counterpart, but customarily snarky outside of that tie-up, as our new book shows...
Madonna and Anna Wintour on Steven Klein
Two long-standing collaborators share their love of this great photographer’s work
Studs and Steven Klein
See how the photographer pairs beautiful models and haute couture clothes with powerful equine imagery
