Man sagt, Schönheit liege im Auge des Betrachters.
In The Touch präsentieren Kinfolk und Norm Architects ein Designverständnis, das davon ausgeht, dass gute Gestaltung nicht nur den visuellen, sondern auch alle anderen menschlichen Sinne anspricht.
Was haben ein Museum in Marrakesch, ein Mid-Century-Apartment in Berlin und ein Friedhof im Norden Venedigs gemeinsam? In The Touch setzen sich der Kinfolk-Mitbegründer Nathan Williams und Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen vom Büro Norm Architects mit dem Gedanken auseinander, dass beeindruckende Orte wie diese allesamt auf Gestaltungsaspekte setzen, bei denen der Mensch und sein sinnliches Erleben im Mittelpunkt stehen: Materialität und Haptik, Licht und Farbigkeit, Authentizität und Gemeinschaftsgefühl. Mit Einblicken in einige der betörendsten Gebäude und Innenräume der Welt bietet The Touch eine Fülle an Inspiration in Form von eindrucksvollen Fotografien, philosophischen Essays und praktischen Expertentipps.

Zusammenfassung

The Touch is a new collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects that welcome readers into over 25 inspiring spaces where interior design is not only visually appealing but engages all of the human senses.

Details

Einbandart: Fester Einband
Verlag: Die Gestalten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seiten: 288 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Masse: Breite 250 mm, Höhe 338 mm, Dicke 35 mm
Gewicht: 2170 g

128 p, no ills, 12 x 19 cm, hb, English

Original photography by Ryan Lowry. Texts by Tezontle Studio & Luis Orozco Madero, Carlota Pérez-Jofre, and Enrique Giner de los Ríos.

Published by Apartamento Publishing SL
First edition, March 2020 
Dimensions: 170×240 mm
Pages: 88 
Binding: hard cover

BERLIN LIVING ROOMS, DOMINIQUE NABOKOV

‘After New York Living Rooms and Paris Living Rooms, voilà: Berlin Living Rooms, the third and final photographic instalment in the trilogy. It is the culmination of a project that started in 1995 when Tina Brown, then the editor-in-chief of the New Yorker magazine, commissioned me an essay. The idea was to photograph writers’ rooms without the writers present. I decided it would be more revealing and, above all, more exciting to feature the living rooms of a varied mix of prominent New Yorkers. Little did I know that this essay, which awoke a keen interest when it appeared in an October 1995 issue of the New Yorker, would take me on a photographic journey that would produce three books and that ends today in 2017!’

Apartamento is widely recognized as today’s most influential interiors magazine. International, well-designed, and simply written since 2008, it is an indispensable resource for individuals who are passionate about the way they live. Apartamento breaks the traditional magazine boundaries that separate home design from homeowner, and offers readers a glimpse inside the lived-in, often cluttered homes of celebrities and industry legends such as REM frontman Michael Stipe and indie screen queen Chloë Sevigny.

The World of Apartamento is a celebration of the magazine’s 10th anniversary and features the best and most inspirational interiors from the publication’s pages. Like the magazine itself, the book is a carefully developed editorial mix—high-quality writing and beautiful photography—that communicates genuine stories and intimate moments. With more than 300 photographs and an eclectic mix of subjects like François Halard, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ezra Koenig, Paz de la Huerta, and more, the book is an inspiring look at individual design choices.

Discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This dependable global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house.

Sprache: Englisch / Deutsch / Französisch

Breaking Ground 

Architecture by Women

A ground-breaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day

Jane Hall

Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and The Nude

The Photography Workshop Series

Introduction by Gregory Halpern

In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography— offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each book features the creative process and core thinking of a photographer told in their own words and through pictures of their choosing. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of the featured photographer.

In this book, Todd Hido explores the genres of landscape, interior, and nude photography, with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective and with a sense of intimacy. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creative issues, including mining one’s own memory and experience as inspiration; using light, texture, and detail for greater impact; exploring the narrative potential activated when sequencing images; and creating powerful stories with emotional weight and beauty.

Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist. He is well-known for his photography of urban and suburban housing across the United States, and for his use of detail and luminous color. His previous books include House Hunting (2001), Outskirts (2002), Roaming (2004), and Between the Two (2007). He is a recipient of a Eureka Fellowship and a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Visual Arts Award, and is repre­sented by Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco. He is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts.

Gregory Halpern received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. His third book of photographs, entitled A, is a photographic ramble through the streets of the American Rust Belt. His other books include Omaha Sketchbook and Harvard Works Because We Do. He currently teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is the coeditor of The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014). 

7 1/2 × 10 inches
128 pages
Paperback
October 2014

• Publish Date: November 05, 2019
• Format: Hardcover
• Category: House & Home - Decorating & Furnishings
• Publisher: Flammarion
• Trim Size: 9 x 12
• Pages: 320

Following his best-selling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition – photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture. Along the way Herwig captures individual elements that make up this singular Soviet experience: neon, concrete, escalators, signage, mosaics and relief sculptures all combine build an unforgettably vivid map of the Soviet Metro.

With an essay by leading architecture, politics and culture author and journalist Owen Hatherley.

Christopher Herwig

160x200 mm hardback
248 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9957455-6-8
Published 2019

Postmodern Architecture

Less is a Bore

A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity

Owen Hopkins

A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity

This unprecedented book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that ‘less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, Postmodernism began in the 1970s, reached a fever pitch of eclectic non-conformity in the 1980s and 90s, and after nearly 40 years is now enjoying a newfound popularity. Postmodern Architecture showcases examples of the movement in a rainbow of hues and forms from around the globe.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 x 250 mm (9 7/8 x 11 3/8 in)
Pages: 224 pp
Illustrations: 200 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714878126

Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style

Amy Astley, Architectural Digest, Anna Wintour

A rich visual history of Architectural Digest, published for the magazine’s 100th anniversary

Architectural Digest at 100 celebrates the best from the pages of the international design authority. The editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a range of subjects. Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personal spaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and includes the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe. Also included are stunning images from the magazine’s history by photographers such as Bill Cunningham, Horst P. Horst, Simon Upton, Francois Dischinger, Francois Halard, Julius Shulman, and Oberto Gili.

Currently sold out! Back soon.

THE HOME UPGRADE

NEUES WOHNEN IN UMGEBAUTEN HÄUSERN

The Home Upgrade stellt innovative Architekten vor, die das Potenzial verkannter Gebäude voll ausschöpfen.

Jeder verdient eine zweite Chance, das gilt auch für die Gebäude, in denen wir leben. Ob unscheinbares Reihenhaus, ehemalige Schule, Garage oder historisches Bauernhaus – mit etwas Fantasie und Geschick lassen sich auch bestehende Gebäude in wahre Traumhäuser verwandeln. The Home Upgrade zeigt Umbauten, Anbauten und Renovierungen aus aller Welt, die von einfachen Maßnahmen bis zur kompletten Änderung des Grundrisses reichen. Gekonnt verbinden Architekten dabei alte Substanz und neue Ideen. Sie bewahren den ursprünglichen Charme der Gebäude und passen Raumaufteilung, Wohnkomfort und Effizienz den Anforderungen von heute an. Neben Grundrissen und anschaulichem Bildmaterial von über 30 Bauprojekten stellt The Home Upgrade innovative Architekten vor, die das Potenzial verkannter Gebäude voll ausschöpfen.

Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses 

A groundbreaking global survey of the finest mid-20th-century homes - one of the most popular styles of our time

Dominic Bradbury

New Food Culture, Restaurants, and Interiors

Restaurants, cafés and bars are transforming into places where entire concepts are evolving to create whole new experiences for eaters. They offer a unique experience that starts the moment you set foot in the door and spans from the interiors to the branding, and behind the scenes to the supply chains and sustainable procedures.

Take a seat at the table and feast your senses one by one.

Editors: gestalten
Release date: March 2019
Format: 21 × 26 cm
Features: Full color, hardcover, stitch bound, 256 pages

Sprache: Englisch

Ricardo Bofill is one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries. His visions for urban and communal life challenged preconceived notions of shared space and proposed alternative styles of living. This monograph explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest projects like La Fábrica, Walden 7, La Muralla Roja or Abraxas. Spectacular new photography by Salva López, texts by experts like Nacho Alegre and Douglas Murphy as well as by Bofill himself are complemented with sketches and floor plans. Bofill’s fantastic creations satisfy a longing for originality, personality and progressive ideals.

Editors: gestalten & Ricardo Bofill
Release date: March 2019
Format: 24.5 × 33 cm
Features: Full color, hardcover, stitch bound, 300 pages

Visions of Architecture
Gestalten

Sprache: Englisch

The Complete Zaha Hadid

Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect

A smartly designed and beautifully illustrated look at the life and work of an elusive and influential designer and architect

Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray’s career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The book’s essays, featuring copious new research, offer in-depth analysis of more than 50 individual designs and architectural projects, accompanied by both period and new photographs.
 
Born in Ireland and educated in London, Gray proceeded to Paris where she opened a textile studio, studied the Japanese craft of lacquer that would become a primary technique in her design work, and owned and directed the influential gallery and store known as “Jean Désert.” Gray struggled for acceptance as a largely self-taught woman in male-dominated professions. Although she is now best known for her furniture, lighting, and carpets, she dedicated herself to many architectural and interior projects that were both personal and socially driven, including the Villa E 1027, the iconic modern house designed with Jean Badovici, as well as economical and demountable projects, such as the Camping Tent. 

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2020
Imprint: Bard Center
Dimensions: 504 pages: 267 x 216mm
Illustrations: 300 color + b-w illus.

THE GARDENS OF EDEN

The book 'Designing Lightness. Structures for Saving Energy' is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. Designing Lightness entertains the reader with its free associations, creating unexpected crosslinks between the world of composite materials and structural solutions. It therefore precedes the conventional approach to sustainability, which focuses on symptoms rather than causes of environmental overload. The book is of interest to all designing disciplines, combining packaging, vehicles, skyscrapers and nanoscale phenomena.

Adriaan Beukers is an emeritus professor in Lightweight Structures. Ed van Hinte is a writer and award-winning critic with a design and engineering background. The book is the extended and improved sequel to their book Lightness, which appeared in 1998.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English

• Publish Date: November 12, 2019
• Format: Hardcover
• Category: Architecture - Individual Architects & Firms - Monographs
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Trim Size: 10 x 12
• Pages: 256

DO YOU READ ME?

André Fu

Crossing Cultures with Design

Catherine Shaw

André Fu is one of Asia’s leading interiors designers. When his design for the worldrenowned The Upper House hotel in Hong Kong opened ten years ago, he became an overnight sensation around the world. As one of Asia’s most widely sought-after interior designers, the Hong Kong–based designer has gone on to create forwardthinking interiors for other major hotels, restaurants and leading brands, including Louis Vuitton, The Berkeley (London) and Waldorf hotels. This showcase of his works to date features eighteen recent projects around the world and provides fresh insights into Fu’s creative process, including his hand-drawn sketches and mood boards, as well as an introductory essay that explores Fu’s key influences and the importance of his unique and highly refined East-meets-West aesthetic. With an illustrated chronology of all the designer’s works to date, this rich overview presents the award-winning vision of interior design’s rising star, not only in Asia but across the world.

Format: PLC
Size: 30.0 x 25.5 cm
Extent: 272 pp
Publication date: 27 February 2020