Have yourself a very Mezze Christmas
Tired of the mince pie, mulled wine and turkey routine? Then try these dishes from The Mezze Cookbook
Who is Nick Bonner giving his book to this Christmas?
Made in North Korea's author tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Moshe Safdie reworks his old brutalist apartment
The Israeli-Canadian architect's firm has gone back to Habitat 67 to rework its founder’s old brutalist unit
No wigs required for this Warhol Xmas card!
His Santa prints are well known, but few Warhol watchers will know this card, made for a favourite restaurant
A German guide to a spicy Christmas!
Alfons Schuhbeck, author of The German Cookbook, picks out five of his favourite spices for the festive season
A few more reasons to buy our Atlas of Brutalist Architecture!
Watch Virginia McLeod, the book’s commissioning editor, talk through the making of this great new title
Who is Jean Jullien giving his book to this Christmas?
The artist, illustrator and Phaidon author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Who is Massimo Bottura giving his book to this Christmas?
The chef and Phaidon author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
David Dawson guides the BBC through our Lucian Freud book
Freud archive director David Dawson talked about posing, paintings and placing bets for the great artist
Putnam & Putnam share the secrets of their success in London
NYC’s flower power couple took an invited audience at the London Flower School through their floral achievements
Who is Will Goldfarb giving his book to this Christmas?
The chef and Phaidon author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Wolfgang Tillmans creates sculpture for ENO debut
Take a look at this bulbous silver stage prop made by the photographer for his production of Britten's War Requiem
Joel Meyerowitz looks back at Thanksgiving
It might look like a contemporary photograph but Joel’s view of the NYC parade actually dates from 1963
Who is Jill Greenberg giving her book to this Christmas?
The Animal photographer tells us her personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Watch Magnus Nilsson and Stephen Harris talk Nordic Baking
The Faviken chef discusses The Nordic Baking Book, and plenty more besides, with the Sportsman’s founder
Who is David Dawson giving his book to this Christmas?
The Lucian Freud archive director tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Good for You, Massimo!
Chef and Phaidon author gets a medal in the Dominican Republic for sharing his ideas on eradicating hunger
Who is Sam Lubell giving his book to this Christmas?
The architectural writer and curator tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
5 things Stefan Sagmeister thinks are beautiful and you will too
Well at least we hope so. The designer finds beauty in unexpected places (and shares them in his new book)
Who are Putnam & Putnam giving their book to this Christmas?
The New York floral designers tell us their personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Why Magnus Nilsson doesn't do sourdough cinnamon buns
Sweet buns and complicated techniques are a truly awful combination, says the chef and author
Who is Liviana Prola giving her book to this Christmas?
The nutritionist and Feed Me author tells us her personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
The plastic pleasure-boat worlds of Verner Panton
How the Danish designer worked with a chemical manufacturer to create a new world of interior design - on water
“Very tasty” - Why Magnus Nilsson bakes with blood
It might sound a bit old fashioned but the chef says this recipe isn’t especially uncommon - and tastes great!
The cow skull and Georgia O’Keeffe
On the artist’s birthday, we consider why she chose this powerful image for one of her most famous paintings
Who is Stefan Sagmeister giving his book to this Christmas?
The designer and Phaidon author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Catch Magnus Nilsson baking in LA today!
The Swedish chef and Nordic Baking author is cooking food and signing books at Los Angeles' acclaimed Sqirl
Seriously, is Thanksgiving Contra's biggest day of the year?
The Contra co-founder, NYC chef, erstwhile fussy eater and wannabe DJ, Jeremiah Stone, talks turkey
'Highly recommended' - Magnus Nilsson on the sandwich torte
The author of The Nordic Baking Book shares a mid-century Swedish dish that’s still a popular party recipe today
Who is Trevor Paglen giving his book to this Christmas?
The author and artist tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Stefan Sagmeister finds beauty in New York
The designer and Phaidon author picks out 12 of the most beautiful lots in Phillips' upcoming sales
The revealing story behind Alejandro Aravena's Novartis HQ
Reclaimed bricks, and less-than-accurate interpretations of his plans formed part of his 'more or less’ strategy
Who is Nancy Singleton Hachisu giving her book to this Christmas?
The author of Japan: The Cookbook tells us about her highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Here’s Annie Leibovitz at Work, in Paris!
Find out what happened when the photographer met her fans and talked through her career in the French capital
Seriously, won’t this Contra chef give us his sauce secrets?
Well, sort of. But this is why Jeremiah Stone feels his XO Sauce is one secret that shouldn’t make it into print
How Pollock and Mapplethorpe shaped Warhol’s Oxidation paintings
Should we see these urine-based works as a punky insult or an art-historical series? Perhaps they’re both
Who is Noah Charney giving his book to this Christmas?
The Museum of Lost Art author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
'Ferran made me realise fewer sweet things are better!'
Albert Adrià reveals how his infamous brother’s inventiveness made him push the definitions of dessert
Theaster Gates and David Adjaye join Bono’s fight against AIDS
Going to Art Basel Miami? Then drop in on this exceptional charity auction, curated by these great creatives
Putnam & Putnam's Paltrow flowers went to good causes!
Here’s how the arrangements they created for Gwyneth's Hamptons wedding went on to delight others too
Olafur Eliasson and a French opera of forbidden love
The artist and Phaidon author is overseeing the stage, set and costume design for an opera with Sir Simon Rattle
Seriously, is this how the Contra chefs got a Michelin star?
No! It was exceptional yet simple cookery, not cuddling up to The Michelin Man that won over the judges
Debbie Harry and friends talk about posing for Warhol
Andy’s portrait subjects tell the New York Times what it was like being pictured in (and paying for) Andy’s portraits
Putnam & Putnam did Gwyneth Paltrow’s wedding!
The star just married film producer Brad Falchuk, and America’s greatest floral designers were there to help
Want Modernism beside the sea? Go to Fire Island!
This summer resort is home to some of America’s best mid-century architecture, as our new guide explains
Why the Whitney’s Warhol exhibition goes big on the 1970s
Donna De Salvo, curator of the Whitney's retrospective, says Andy’s later decades were among his greatest
Why did Magnus Nilsson put pizza in The Nordic Baking Book?
The Nordic Baking Book author has a slightly controversial but well-reasoned take on pizza's 'Nordic origins'
John Waters thinks our Warhol book is 'Like a detective novel’
The filmmaker, artist and Warhol confidant explains why the new Catalogue Raisonné is his bedtime companion
Where to Drink Beer’s author has got Thanksgiving covered
Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø has added a little seasonal colour to Evil Twin Brewing’s line-up. Praise be!
Prada reissues Verner Panton’s classic blow-up stool
The fashion house loves this innovative transparent cube, the first piece of inflatable furniture
Seriously, were Contra's chefs once enemies?
Sort of, but they overcame their differences to make their joint venture one of New York's most exciting restaurants
Meet Jean-Christian Jury - he's a vegan!
And he's looking good! But it wasn't always this way. On World Vegan Day our author reveals how heart failure made him reassess his diet for the better. Want to give it a go? Vegan: The Cookbook will show you how
WSJ's Alexandra Wolfe is an Animal lover!
The WSJ writer raves over our beautiful new exploration of the zoological world
Phaidon chefs score at Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list
Virgilio Martinez, Enrique Olvera, Rodolfo Guzmán, Alex Atala and Gastón Acurio win big at the 2018 ceremony
Trevor Paglen borrows from On Kawara for his midterm poster
Artist, activist and Nam June Paik award winner takes a conceptual art classic and reworks it for the elections
Seriously, what have Contra’s chefs got against microgreens?
When it comes to teeny-weeny garnishes, Jeremiah Stone and Fabián von Hauske really think less is a bore
Sharon Hayes wants to take Stonewall on the road
The artist wants to put a PA system on a vintage station wagon to commemorate the momentous protest
5 Phaidon books Spencer Bailey really likes
The editor, journalist and incoming Phaidon editor-at-large on his pick of our architecture and design titles
For Halloween, the story behind Warhol's 'classic still life'
The pop pioneer said his Skulls were facist symbols, though the truth seems to be a little more complicated
The sweet (and sour) side of Swedish candy
Magnus Nilsson’s new book boasts some great confectionary recipes and reveals a forgotten candy scandal
Michael Putnam makes a GREAT Frida Kahlo!
The co-founder of New York’s greatest floral design studio is pretty hot when it comes to fancy dress too
Seriously, what’s so special about the wine at Contra?
Quite a lot! Here’s how friendship, open-mindedness and all natural ingredients make for such a good pairing
Was Verner Panton the Bond villain's favourite designer?
From the late 1960s to the early 21st century Bond baddies have enjoyed the designs of the sensual Scandinavian
Olafur Eliasson on social media, Experience and his next show
The author, activist and artist has an idea that smart phones might not be so bad for his next Tate show after all
'Sweet bread mingling with the scent of volcanic activity'- Magnus Nilsson on Icelandic traditional baking techniques
The Nordic Baking Book author definitely knows a natural steam oven from a hole in the ground!
Brae and Faviken are two of WSJ’s Five Restaurants Genuinely Worth Traveling For
Magnus Nilsson and Dan Hunter’s bucolic ventures are both on a small, but perfectly formed, list
'Bitter, almost spicy'- Magnus Nilsson on the surprising, evergreen element in Nordic bread
Axes at the ready! One recipe in The Nordic Baking Book requires both culinary and arboreal skills
Swearing, shopping, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas
It may have only lasted six months, but Sarah Lucas’s ‘90’s retail venture still resonates, a quarter century later
Seriously, Contra began as an ice cream shop?
Here’s how a sweet, icey way to keep one chef in NYC developed into one of the city’s best restaurants
Five great Picasso works in great destinations
On the artist’s birthday, we pick out some of Pablo's finest pieces, courtesy of our new book Destination Art
'Naps with eating' - Magnus Nilsson on Nordic snack breaks
Coffee and snack breaks are known as 'fika' the Nordic Baking Book author says - and they're great for productivity
Raf Simons on why Warhol is a perfect fit for Calvin Klein
Raf says Warhol’s portraits prove he was truly democratic (but he does love the Death and Disaster series too)
Alejandro Aravena’s brutal beach house is for sale
Like to slip off your office gear and gaze into a fire at weekends? Got $1.5m? This place could be right for you
Was Verner Panton the most avant-garde of Danish designers?
The 20th century design visionary took Scandi interiors for a walk on the wild side of industrial production
Sex, Death, Sigmund Freud and Sarah Lucas
Here’s how the controversial artist showed her risqué sculptures in Freud’s historic London house
The war that made Robert Capa
On the Magnum founder’s birthday, we look back at his most famous book, Death in the Making
How Annie Leibovitz caught Richard Nixon's final flight
Leibovitz recalls teaming up with Hunter S. Thompson to document Tricky Dicky’s dishonourable departure
'Exhausting, Exhilarating, Exasperating but Inspiring' - David Dawson at Sotheby's on sitting for Lucian Freud
Long time assistant and Freud Archive Director reveals what it was like to sit for the great painter
How Annie Leibovitz captured Emily Dickinson’s absence
This photograph of the poet’s pressed-flowers album serves as a tribute to not one, but two, writers
5 things we learned on the Brutal Bus tour
Prince Charles called the National Theatre a nuclear power station, The Royal College of Physicians is based on the human body and only 50 people lived in the Barbican when the Barbican was built (none of them architects!)
How to do a wedding Putnam & Putnam style
The only thing that’s monochrome is the dynamic duo's workwear, as you can tell from these stunning displays
'A walking Gallup poll' - the social side of Andy Warhol’s incredible creativity according to Arnold Lehman of Phillips
Warhol may have borrowed some ideas from others but that doesn't mean his work wasn't 100 per cent Andy
Who’s top dog here?
Here’s how we buddied up with NYC’s best four-legged, furry influencers to launch our new book Feed Me
How Annie Leibovitz revealed Kendrick Lamar's inner visions
Having shot Jagger and Lennon, Annie is capturing the musical voice of a new generation for Vanity Fair
What are all these people trying to get a photograph of?
Could this paw-parazzi shot have anything to do with our Feed Me and Pet-tecture launch this morning?
On National Pasta Day, why not try this Middle Eastern take?
These grain-sized pasta shapes are popular across the Middle East, and go great with kale and feta
'To me there’s no argument' – the Whitney’s Donna De Salvo says Andy’s 70s paintings are unquestionably great
The curator of the forthcoming Warhol retrospective says that was the era when Warhol truly engaged with painting
Cool Designs for Cultured Kids – The Eames Elephant
This pint-sized pachyderm was created for Charles and Ray’s offspring but is now available to all cultured kids
'Campbell’s Soup Cans is the real model for the portraits' - Andy Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik on Andy's '70s portraits
'The collapse of the portraits into a single series is Warholian – things in series without individual characteristics'
How Annie Leibovitz showed her mother's honesty
She’s shot everyone from the Queen to Kanye, but she says this picture of her mother is probably her favourite
Did you spot Mark Bradford at the Royal Wedding?
Some work by the artist made a sneak appearance at Princess Eugenie's wedding ceremony a few days ago
“The galleries were scared to show them” Factory studio boss Vincent Fremont on Andy Warhol’s Sex Parts series
Here’s what happened when Andy finally expressed his sexual desires in the late 1970s
Get to know Cape Cod Modernism in Massachusetts
This is what happened when Walter Gropius and co took the summer off and went to the beach
The hidden story in Olafur Eliasson’s new book
Here’s why the world-famous artist hopes Olafur Eliasson: Experience will help him reach a new audience
'He saw hammers and sickles when he went to Italy in the 70s' - Factory studio boss Vincent Fremont on Andy Warhol
How Andy's Skull series and Hammer and Sickle images were inspired by the extreme politics of 1970s Europe
![Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle [Still Life], late 1976, acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 72 x 86 inches, 182.9 x 218.4 cm. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., NY, Photo by Phillips/Schwab](/resource/05a-114-l-hammer-and-sickle.jpg)
How Annie Leibovitz saw Nicole Kidman's face light up
Turns out some people are truly photogenic as the legendary photographer explains in her new book
The Nordic Baking Book is a Bible for Bakers says WSJ.
Magnus Nilsson's new book 'captures the heart of baking culture across Scandinavia' the magazine says
Want to catch up with the Harvard Five? Go to New Canaan
The Connecticut village is an architectural gem, says our new Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide
How Annie Leibovitz learned to dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov
Her photos of Baryshnikov’s company are a lesson in the beauty, and difficulty, in photographing dance
