Noma tops the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – for the fifth time!

The brilliant, hard working chef, René Redzepi, says he feels ‘electric’ to have topped the list once again

Noma's René Redzepi (centre right) with fellow Noma staffer Ali Sonko (centre left) at the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards last night. All images courtesy and copyright: The World's 50 Best Restaurants

Don't miss this if you're visiting Dubai!

Heading to the Emirates? Make sure you take a look at this 21st century wonder, courtesy of Destination Architecture

Cayan Tower, SOM, 2013, Dubai Marina, Dubai. Photo by Tim Griffith

Five famous (and one infamous) Freud

From the Windsors to the Krays, no other portraitist straddled society quite like the British artist Lucian Freud

HM Queen Elizabeth II (2001) by Lucian Freud

25 artistic influences from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series

Whether its Paul McCarthy channelling Duchamp or Sterling Ruby digging Bruce Nauman, our series has covered it all

A selection of books from our Contemporary Artist Series

Naoto Fukasawa's bendy new chair for a 90-year-old firm

Fukusawa's incredible bent-plywood chair launches this month to mark Japanese firm Maruni's 90th year in business

The Roundish armchair by Naoto Fukasawa for Maruni. All photography by Yoneo Kawabe

Massimo Bottura - still the best chef in the world!

The Skinny Italian chef retained his 50 Best #1 slot in Melbourne today!

Massimo Bottura arriving before the ceremony

A Brutal tour of Washington D.C.

From the FBI building to the city’s subway, here are some highlights from our Brutalist tour of the US capital

The J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington D.C.. All photographs by Darren Bradley and reproduced in our new Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast USA

Get to know Rihanna *** via the people who made it

Our book, Rihanna *** is a hugely luxurious and wildly revealing new publication, which captures the superstar and her lifestyle perfectly


All you need to know about Ezra Stoller

See the beautiful images and understand the ideals that raised this Mid-Century Modern photographer above the rest

Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture

Foster has lofty ambitions in Warsaw

Verso Tower will be Poland’s tallest, outstripping Soviet architect Lev Rudnev’s Palace of Culture and Science

Varso Tower, Warsaw - Foster + Partners

Destination Food - Greece

Transport your taste buds with some simple snacks and ambitious dishes drawn from Greece’s unique, and delicious culinary culture

The Greek landscape, as reproduced in Greece: The Cookbook

The rags-to-riches tale of the world’s most prized jeweller

Wallace Chan combined hard work and skillful innovation to reach the glittering heights of his profession, our new book Coveted explains

Wallace Chan, Hera Brooch and Ring, 2019. Aquamarines, black opal (14.61ct), crystal, emeralds, fancy-color diamonds, fancy sapphires, lapis lazuli, opals, padparadscha sapphires, and tsavorite garnets in titanium, and the Wallace Chan Porcelain. Courtesy Wallace Chan

Ten takeaways from our JR interview

The artist, activist and Phaidon author describes how Banksy gave him his big break, why he lied about his age, and how his new book How Old Am I? came about

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The author of The Turkish cookbook understands his country's regions and divisions, and sometimes ignores them


Massimo Bottura opens up Refettorios in NYC and San Fran

The chef, philanthropist and Phaidon author can’t quite welcome diners to these places yet, but they are sending out meals to those most in need during the pandemic

A food bowl produced by Refettorio Harlem and its collaborators Hot Bread Kitchen



This brick reservoir just won a top architecture prize

The derelict reservoir may not be by a big name, yet it still won the World Archiecture Festival's photography prize

Covered Reservoir, Finsbury Park, London by Matt Emmett, winner of the 2016 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award

IGNORE - All you need to know about Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland

Revel in the fashion photography created by one of the medium’s true contemporary greats

Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland

Why we shouldn't see Ai Weiwei as Warhol's heir

The new exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, is thrilling, but the beauty lies in the artists' differences

Ai Weiwei at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1987, beside Andy Warhol's Self Portrait (1967). Courtesy of Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia


War, sex and pugs

There was a time when this Chinese breed symbolised exoticism, military defeat and foreign licentiousness

The Seraglio of the Pug (1734) Jean-Baptiste Oudry, as featured in Exotic

All you need to know about Us & Our Planet

IKEA presents an innovative meditation on the many ways to live more sustainably, based on experience

Us & Our Planet

INTERVIEW Reem Kassim on the Arabesque Table ROUGH CUT

Following the global success of The Palestinian Table the ..... is back with a new title. . . . .


The clubs that drove Jim Hodges’ Art

New York’s clubs and bars both excited and terrified the artist, as he explains in our new book

Untitled, 2011, by Jim Hodges

Ogata Kōrin's Flowers for Valentine’s Day

Searching for a timely, yet timeless lover’s gift? Here’s why, this February 14, you should pluck Flower

Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), c.1709 by Ogata Kōrin

The beautiful location that makes monk truly special

Yoshihiro Imai knew the rundown, canalside building would make a perfect spot for his contemplative restaurant, and he’s been proven right

Monk restaurant, along The Philosopher’s Path, near Ginkakuji, Kyoto. All photos by Yuka Yanazume

KAWS and his phone booth art

Our new book explains how the artist’s subversive advertising interventions introduced him to the wider world of fashion and marketing

UNTITLED (DKNY), 1997, Acrylic on existing advertising poster. Photo: Farwad Owrang / © KAWS

Antoni Gaudí gem opens to the public

First house ever designed by the Art Nouveau architect reopens as a museum this autumn

The newly restored and soon to open to the public Casa Vincens, Barcelona

Rihanna Met Gala

The recording artist’s papal look was one of the stand-out outfits of this year’s AAA-list costume party


Abraham Bosse’s Body of Art- ‘Sovereign authority'

The body politic is personified in this 17th century work, another highlight from our brilliant new book, Body of Art

Frontispiece for Leviathan (1651) by Abraham Bosse

Sarah Sze, Thelma Golden and Kering help launch Great Women Artists

The luxury goods group hosted a starry art-world dinner to celebrate our new book in New York earlier this month


Massimo’s plan for 1,000 Reffetorios

If you’re down and out almost anywhere in the world your diet is about to get a lot better, thanks to this chef's book

Massimo on Instagram earlier today with his new book Bread is Gold

A museum-grade Lego gift for Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday

The toy firm marks the 150 anniversary of Wright’s birth with a replica of the architect’s Guggenheim museum

Lego's new Guggenheim set. Image courtesy of Lego.com

Our World is the gift to reintroduce them to the beauty of the planet

Our introduction to geography for young children is one of our better books for a better year ahead. Give someone you love a copy!

Our World

Art of the Map – Saul Steinberg

Understand how this well-known, humorous cartoon tells us something serious about our mental geography

View of the World from 9th Avenue (1976) by Saul Steinberg. As reproduced in Map: Exploring the World

Did Turner’s paintings inspire Moby-Dick?

That’s the claim put forward by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its new show of the British artist's whaling scenes

Whalers (c. 1845) by JMW Turner

Phaidon chefs are heading West for Food Bowl

Virgilio Martinez, Enrique Olvera and Musa Dağdeviren co are LA-bound for the city’s annual culinary festival

Chefs and Phaidon authors Virgilio Martinez, Musa Dağdeviren and Enrique Olvera

The scraps and junk that Jim Hodges turns into art

There’s something truly sublime about that way this American artist fashions his found objects into fine art

Untitled (One Day It All Comes True), 2013. Denim fabric and thread, by Jim Hodges

What would art look like after mankind has gone? Adrián Villar Rojas has an idea

In the artist’s 2017 LA show, The Theater of Disappearance, Villar Rojas considered our post-human future

Adrián Villar Rojas, The Theatre of Disappearance, 2017. Freezer, white silicone, recreation of Homo Ergaster skeleton ‘Nariokotome Boy‘, cast of orangutan’s foot, octopus slice, cold cuts and banana peel (from Rinascimento, 2015), igneous rock, vanadinite crystal, mollusc shells, butterfly wings, dried fruits and vegetables, fungi, cake, hippocampus, collected in Los Angeles, Erfoud, Istanbul, Kalba, New York, Rosario and Turin, 210 x 82 x 120 cm.Installation view at the Geffen Contemporary

JR and Timothée Chalamet rework the Frick

The artist and the film star debuted a new performance and installation just prior to attending the Met Gala

Timothée Chalamet and JR outside the Frick. All images courtesy of the Frick's Instagram

Find a new way to impress guests, with Middle Eastern Sweets

Add fresh flavours and textures to show-stopping desserts via our new book

Stretchy Ice Cream, or booza. Photography by Liz and Max Haarala Hamilton


Ferran Adrià believes elBulli-style restaurants will help the industry bounce back

Innovation, says the Spanish chef and Phaidon author, will blaze new trails in the culinary arts after Covid-19

Ferran Adrià. Photograph by Juanjo Everman

When Marcel Breuer settled in London

How the war brought the architect and designer to the UK and how its climate led him back to carpentry

From left: Arthur Korn, Marcel Breuer, Ise Gropius and Walter Gropius at Lawn Road flats, London 1935

The Flowers that died to create a womb

Our new book, Flower features this incredible installation, featuring around a million decaying blooms

The Womb (2019) by Rebecca Louise Law. As featured in Flower

Mauro Giaconi - Why I Draw

At primary school the Vitamin D3 artist would exchange his drawings for homework, now he prefers to construct complex drawings that don’t reveal their intention immediately

Mauro Giaconi in his studio


Here's how Sou Fujimoto fitted a chair into a bookcase

The Japanese architect and designer puts the reader first with this neat addition to a conventional set of bookshelves

Sou Fujimoto's Bookchair, by Alias. All images courtesy of Alias


Visit a Virtual Open Studio with the Haas Brothers

The Californian artists shared their working space and practice with Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and Amanda Benchley, authors of our new book Open Studio: Do-It-Yourself Art Projects By Contemporary Artists

The Haas Brothers

The project that pushed Stephen Shore away from pop

Edwynn Houk’s show of Uncommon Places prints reminds us of Shore’s switch from America’s surfaces to its depths

Bay Theater, Second Street, Ashland, Wisconsin, July 9, 1973 by Stephen Shore

Herman Miller is showing its brands in Milan – here’s a guide

The US furniture designer has quite a few other firms within its family, as a new Milan exhibition makes plain

Herman Miller's All Together Now show, phtoograph by Nicholas Calcott

Okwui Enwezor on El Anatsui

The late, great curator knew how to interpret, and how not to interpret, this important contemporary artist

Dusasa II by El Anatsui, Installation view Haus der Kunst. All images courtesy of Installatio, Haus der Kunst, Munich

On Stop Food Waste Day, turn Bread into Gold

Here’s Massimo Bottura’s titular dish from the book all about turning unwanted food into great meals for the poor


Spencer Bailey on minimalism, Covid-19 and the making of contemporary memorials

The author of In Memory of describes the role, development and beauty of today’s memorials

Spencer Bailey. Photo by Saito Ogata

Virgilio Martínez on painting, raw fish and the future

The Peruvian chef and Phaidon author shares his passions, culinary perspectives and travel tips with Barron’s

Phaidon author and chef Virgilio Martínez

JR celebrates French health heroes on the site of the Bastille

The artist has installed a new work on the site of the prison stormed by French revolutionaries 231 years ago

JR's latest installation in Paris. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

The High Line team let everyone into the V&A’s vault

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has entirely reinvented the museum store for the V&A's new London space

Renderings for the V&A's Here East by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Image courtesy of the architects

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Lili Reynaud-Dewar wins the Prix Marcel Duchamp

The prestigious prize recognises the way in which the artist has celebrated the lives of figures such as Jean Genet, Sun Ra and Josephine Baker

Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Teeth Gums Machines Future Society, 2017, performance, Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands, 2017. Artwork © Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

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The author of The Turkish cookbook understands his country's regions and divisions, and sometimes ignores them


All you need to know about Bird

Our new book dedicated to avian imagery will delight anyone who has ever been drawn to our feathered friends


The desk is dead, say Barber Osgerby

The designers say our work habits are a remnant from the Industrial Revolution, and they can sweep them away

Soft Work by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. Image courtesy of Vitra. Photo by Lorenz Cugini

The ingredient that evokes Reem Kassis’s childhood salads

The author of The Arabesque Cookbook recalls a sharp observation from her father, and how it reminded her of one evocative vegetable

Reem Kassis, author of The Arabesque Table

Get to know Rihanna: Queen Size

Our book, Rihanna: Queen Size is a hugely luxurious, limited edition (500) heavyweight (60lbs) volume of the star’s stunning large format visual biography





What to expect from Paul McCarthy's 'Brown Rothkos'

Here’s how messed up carpets from a 2013 installation turned into a ‘homage' to the prominent Ab-Exer

Whipping a Window and a Wall with Paint (1974) by Paul McCarthy

Michael and Darroch Putnam share their enthusiasm for their new book

The masterful floral designers explain why Flower Color Theory is something they really want to share with the world Darroch and Michael Puttnam talk us through their new book Flower Color Theory (with a little help from their furry friends)

Micheal and Darroch Putnam in West Hollywood, with their dogs


Vitamin D3 interview Christina Quarles

We speak to this contemporary artist, featured in Phaidon's new, indispensable survey of contemporary drawing



The Best of Nest is the gift to reopen their love of interiors

Our celebration of this extraordinary interior design magazine is one of our better books for a better year ahead. Give someone you love a copy!


Hans Ulrich Obrist on painting in 2016

The Serpentine artistic director, curator, writer and Vitamin P3 contributor offers his take on the medium

Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries and Phaidon author tops the ArtReview Power 100 2016

Vitamin D3 interview Tania Kovats

We speak to this contemporary artist, featured in Phaidon's new, indispensable survey of contemporary drawing


Visit the apartment where Le Corbusier changed architecture

The top floors of Le Corbusier’s Molitor Building – where the architect lived for 30 years – are now open to the public

Le Corbusier's newly restored apartment in the Molitor Building in Paris. Image © FLC-ADAGP/Olivier Martin-Gambier

Want to cook like Ben Shewry? Here’s the music to help you

The chef shares his musical and culinary passions in our new book Snacky Tunes


Read Magnus Nilsson’s simple tips on roasting the perfect bird

The chef and Phaidon author shares some straightforward, effective culinary advice with Monocle Radio

Bird’s head grilled over birch charcoal, from Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning. Photo by Erik Olsson

When tech rebooted men's fashion

We trace digital influence In the many profiles within The Men’s Fashion Book

A model wearing a Jhane Barnes Checkmate stretch woven sweater, Spring 1991

Meals that made America great - Caldo Verde

Here’s how a Portuguese dish found a home in Rhode Island, courtesy of America The Cookbook

Caldo verde, as featured in America The Cookbook


Pentagram fight the tampon tax

Paula Scher and co produce the identity for America's first policy institute dedicated to advancing menstrual access

Pentagram's identity for Period Equity. All images courtesy of Pentagram.com

Lauren Greenfield goes to a dictator’s wild island

Her forthcoming film, Fantasy Island, looks at the African park Ferdinand Marcos built



The Flowers that warmed Midwestern winters

These colourful, if not entirely botanically accurate blooms were a way for many Americans to look forward to spring

Vaughan’s Seed Company, Gardening Illustrated, 1895. 32 × 24.8 cm / 12½ × 9¾ in, Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland


Leonardo DiCaprio backs Magnus Resch’s app

The author of Management of Art Galleries gets help from the Hollywood star for his Shazam-like art app

A Leonardo DiCaprio impersonator at last year's Frieze New York, as commissioned by artist Dora Budor. Image courtesy of the fair

When Marlene Dumas saw herself as banal and evil

On the artist's birthday we ask why she named this self portrait after a famous description of a Nazi war criminal

Evil is Banal (1984) by Marlene Dumas

One brilliant black building to see in Budapest

Looking for an architecturally-themed trip this weekend? Then try this dark modern house, from our book Black

H House by Budapesti Műhely, in Budapest, Hungary, 2011. From our new book Black

Marcel Breuer’s family home is up for sale

New Canaan hilltop house built in 1951 and updated by a Harvard prof in 2016 could be yours for $5 million

Breuer House New Canaan II, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951 by Marcel Breuer. Photograph by Michael Biondo. Image courtesy of houlihanlawrence.com

Phaidon Introductions: Thierry-Maxime Loriot on Mugler’s early years

The curator of the new Mugler show takes us from the designer’s childhood through to his first big break

Dominique Issermann, Thierry Mugler, New York, 1995 ; Stern (Allemagne), 1995. Photo : © Dominique Issermann. As reproduced in Thierry Mugler: Couturissime

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Viennese Secessionist didn't just limit their influence to the visual arts, as our Art In Vienna book explains


Martin Parr’s Brexit Britain

A long-standing observer of British life, Parr captures the dissonance and warning flags surrounding the UK’s EU exit



Woody of Sneaker Freaker magazine on Soled Out, sexism and sneaker endorsements

The athletics shoe authority and author of SOLED OUT, offers his take on star endorsements during the golden age of sneaker advertising

Soled Out

Watch Marina Abramović count rice and lentils

The contemporary artist is one of many who've made videos with Phillips auction house to accompany our new book Open Studio

Marina Abramović in our new Open Studio video

Rodolfo and André Chiang chill and grill

The famous Taiwanese chef was just one of the prominent figures the Boragó chef won over on his recent tour

Andre Chiang (left) and Rodolfo Guzmán chat beside two roasting lambs in Taipei, during Rodolfo's recent Asian tour

Sterling Ruby's declaration of American Independence

Discover how the US artist picks purposefully difficult subjects in an attempt to confront America's troubles

Sterling Ruby