5 things we learned from a short chat with Sir Paul Smith
We just previewed our book Paul Smith in an online chat with the fashion legend. Here are a few things he said
Lizzo keeps her Rihanna book right next to her Grammys!
Vogue just interviewed the singer at her LA home, revealing our great looking book on her display shelves
The Flower that symbolised new life in Ancient Greece
Our new book Flower features an incredible trove of ancient ornaments, proving the reverence for floral forms stretches back millennia
Want to cook like Sean Brock? Here’s the music to help you
The chef shares his musical and culinary passions in our new book Snacky Tunes
Secrets from The Garden: Sometimes the best elements aren't 'real'
Our new book, The Garden, reveals the lengths garden creatives can go to to get the perfect vista
The folk art that changed Anni and Josef Albers
Our book Anni & Josef Albers includes an examination of the couple’s love of pre-Columbian art and its influence on them
Secrets from The Garden: You don't have to own the best bit of your garden
Some of the greatest horticulturalists look towards the horizon when reworking the ground beneath their feet, explains our book,The Garden: Elements and Styles
Japan The Cookbook inspires Nancy Singleton Hachisu's menu at new London restaurant
Nordic and Japanese concept store Pantechnicon will host new restaurant Sachi with a menu devised by Hachisu
The Flowers frozen in time
Marc Quinn's high tech Garden of Eden is submerged in 25 tons of frozen silicon
Secrets from The Garden: Spanish colonial gardens aren't actually colonial
The Garden: Elements and Styles untangles the roots of horticultural terminology with beautiful images and crisp text
The square paintings that established Anni and Josef Albers
Anni & Josef Albers, examines how a series of repetitive paintings went from object of ridicule to high society status symbol
The Flowers that became street art
Discover how NYC florist Lewis Miller took his stems to the street, in our new book Flower
The style that defined Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book, Anni & Josef Albers, examines the clothes the couple favoured, in their own unwavering way
All you need to know about The Garden: Elements and Styles
Our beautiful new book is the quintessential reference guide to garden design, its rich history, and the creative art of horticulture
The Flower that symbolises Japanese spirituality
Our book Flower brings together an unimaginably varied bouquet of fine art blooms, including Rinko Kawauchi's powerful image
Best in Show! Simon Doonan indulges in a bit of doggy dressing for his new book
Window dressing gave the author confidence and this recent post proves he's still very much the master
Trevor Paglen: 'I’d go outside and have this overwhelming sense of fear but at the same time I was watching nature explode'
How the artist made his new show in the midst of a pandemic
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The night he realised a good cook is a caring cook
In his new book, Nilsson describes how an intimate dinner in Paris led him to realise that hospitality is all about being truly hospitable
How Herman Melville worked from home
The novelist found nautical inspiration in this modest farmhouse far from the sea, where he wrote Moby-Dick, its whale inspired by the snowy curves of Mount Greylock
How Philip Johnson and America saved Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book describes how a chance meeting in the street and the invention of Black Mountain College helped the couple escape Nazi Germany
Cecily Brown takes on English country life in her new Blenheim Palace show
The artist retains a love for her homeland, though she admits, Britain is going through a traumatic time with Brexit right now
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The day he met Joel Meyerowitz
A walk with New York’s greatest street photographer taught Magnus Nilsson something crucial about craft, as he recalls in Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End
All you need to know about Flower
Take a trip across continents and cultures to discover how artists and image makers have employed floral motifs throughout history
The school that changed Anni and Josef Albers forever
The Bauhaus had a crucial influence on both their careers, though Josef had a slightly easier time than Anni. . .
How a boyhood bike purchase inspired Paul Smith to find beauty in the details
In our book Paul describes how a teenage cycle upgrade led him to appreciate simple design finesse
The love that drove Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book, Anni & Josef Albers, describes the couple’s courtship, honeymoon and their romantic challenges
Sir Terence Conran on the founding of the Design Museum
The great designer and entrepreneur, who died at the weekend, said the museum was the single most rewarding achievement of his long and illustrious career
How Charlie Chaplin worked from home
The film star edited films, created music and wrote his autobiography at his home on the shore of Lake Geneva
How Jony Ive inspired Paul Smith to be curious
The tech designer met Smith before joining Apple, and the two have remained mutual admirers ever since
Mark Bradford on the lockdown, LA and how his latest paintings ended up in a grain silo
The Los Angeles artist tells the New York Times that Covid-19 has pushed him into survival mode
Join Jeanne Gang and Jane Hall at RIBA this Monday!
The Studio Gang founder is in conversation with Breaking Ground author Jane Hall and you're invited
How Jean Cocteau worked from home
The French artist mixed business with pleasure when he painted the walls of this Mediterranean villa
How Yves Saint Laurent inspired Paul Smith to show his love
In our book Paul describes commissioning perhaps the last, genuine YSL tuxedo for his supportive, loving wife
Does the new Xbox owe a debt to Dieter Rams?
Er, yes! Commentators point out the similarities between Microsoft’s next-gen gaming console and Dieter's 20th century classics
Eater loves our new Fäviken book
The authoritative food and fine dining site praises Magnus Nilsson’s new book for its passionate but measured take on modern gastronomy
All you need to know about Nonstop
We're proud to publish world-famous children’s author Tomi Ungerer's final book this season. It is, without doubt, a masterpiece
Adam Pendleton helps save Nina Simone’s home
The contemporary artist has helped preserve the singer’s childhood home
How Dieter Rams inspired Paul Smith to be brave
The British designer admires the way the German minimalist managed to resist the allure of decoration
How René Magritte worked from home
A simple Belgian apartment was all the great surrealist needed to create some of his best-known works, as our new book explains
How Christo and Jeanne-Claude inspired Paul Smith to believe in the unbelievable
The art duo’s audacious, site-specific works left a big impression on the British designer, as he explains in our new book
All you need to know about Cecily Brown
Our vital new book is the first to truly chart the rise of one of the most influential painters of our time
Try this tasty, child-friendly Labor Day recipe
Get that end-of-summer flavor without the leaping flames, courtesy of our kids' cookbook, United Tastes of America
How Elvis Presley worked from home
Graceland might be better suited to play rather than work, but the singer still recorded his last two albums here
All you need to know about Adam Pendleton
Appreciate and understand the work of this groundbreaking American artist in his first all-encompassing publication
Five things we learned from Snacky Tunes' Frieze Sessions
The podcast hosts and Phaidon authors tell Frieze’s publisher how they put their hit show on the printed page
Okwui Enwezor on art, race and school uniform
As the late curator and Phaidon author is awarded a Special Golden Lion, we look back at his radical life and work
All you need to know about Flower Color Theory
Get the ultimate flower arrangement reference book from the greatest contemporary floral design studio
All you need to know about Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End
Magnus Nilsson lifts the lid on what it was really like to run one of the world's most successful restaurants, in this wonderfully detailed cookbook and memoir
How Anni and Josef Albers holidayed
Newly unearthed vacation photographs from the artist couple prove that they were inveterate explorers
Philip Johnson’s religious side
Our new book highlights the American architect’s surprising enthusiasm for houses of worship
8 Martinis with a twist
Yes of course you should never really drink more than two, but, as our book Spirited makes clear, there’s a lot of great variations on this classic to sample
Yoshitomo Nara on his worst studio, his favourite chocolate, and why his forthcoming LA show will be a class reunion
The painter shares his thoughts on his art, diet and well-known works with the New York Times
How JR and Yayoi Kusama are guiding gallery goers towards a new type of art
Pace’s new public art venture focuses more on the ticket-buying public and less on rich patrons
Cocktail makers get mobile in New York and London
Is this the way we should be enjoying our mixed drinks during the pandemic? Or would a copy of our new book Spirited make things a little easier?
All you need to know about The Best of Nest
The beautiful, much-loved, much-missed interiors magazine, Nest, is brought back to life in this lavish overview of exciting and unusual home décor
All you need to know about Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry
The first comprehensive book on jewelry as an art form shows the beauty, and explores the craft, behind some of today’s most precious creations
Dreaming of entertaining again?
In this clip the floral designer and Phaidon author Michael Putnam shows how a display can become an interactive experience for every guest
How Gianni Versace worked from home
Versace’s place in Miami Beach managed to combine Old World motifs with a New World easiness
Annie Leibovitz curates Henri Cartier-Bresson
It was Cartier-Bresson’s photobook that made the photographer pick up a camera. Now she repays the debt by co-curating a new show of his work
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Betak stages the perfect pandemic fashion show
The fashion show master moved everything to a field outside Paris, in a beautifully simple response to Covid-19
All you need to know about Anni & Josef Albers
A moving, Modernist life story told with wit, precision and beauty, our new book is a fitting tribute to these two Bauhaus pioneers
How Eliel Saarinen worked from home
The Finnish architect was born on this day, 20 August. His studio home, on the shores of Lake Vitträsk, is a masterpiece of early 20th century architecture
All you need to know about In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
Our new book looks at some of the most beautiful, moving and thoughtful memorials of the past four decades
All you need to know about Snacky Tunes
Discover the delicious and unexpected interplay between stove and stereo in this tasty new overview of great chefs and their love of music
A Phaidon guide to New York’s museum reopenings
Heading out to admire art in Manhattan again? Then pack these books alongside a face mask and hand sanitizer
How our Casa Mi Casa co-author wants to change the restaurant business
In a New York Times profile Daniela Soto-Innes explains why she wants to make restaurants kinder, less gruelling, places to work post-Covid
Wolfgang Tillmans and Olafur Eliasson reopen Berghain
They are among 80 Berlin artists taking part in a new show housed inside the city's cavernous techno club
Take a look at the beautiful NY summer house where our new writer lives and works
Simon Doonan and husband Jonathan Adler have been in their Shelter Island summer house since March, and they just gave the NY Times a tour
Snacky Tunes talk food and music with Frieze next week
Darin and Greg Bresnitz, hosts of the hit podcast, will chat with Frieze’s publisher, Rebecca Ann Siegel, about the cultural significance of our listening and eating habits
The best thing to spin on a Dieter Rams record player
Brian Eno is releasing his Dieter Rams documentary soundtrack on a suitably minimal, limited edition, vinyl LP to mark Record Store Day
All you need to know about Paul Smith
In this bright new monograph, the legendary designer selects 50 objects that have influenced his 50-year-old brand
Martin Creed’s new work welcomes post-lockdown visitors to The Fife Arms
The Glasgow-raised artist has some neon reassurance for the Scottish fine art hotel’s well-heeled clientele
Designers should be optimists, Bruce Mau tells Monocle Radio
The designer, author and educator says he doesn’t have the luxury of cynicism, and his profession is a noble calling
All you need to know about How to Be Yourself
Simon Doonan, author and Creative Ambassador-at-Large for Barneys has figured it all out and has a solution for all of life’s challenges
Grace Coddington and Fabien Baron on fashion after Covid
Two hugely influential figures believe fashion will change, and that, in someways, a little lockdown can do some good
Studio Gang win big at the Architizer A+ Awards
The Chicago practice receives four awards for three of its innovative new buildings
All you need to know about Open Studio
KAWS, Marina Abramovic, George Condo, Mickalene Thomas and more invite you into their studios to share artworks you can recreate at home
When Philip Johnson joined the protest marchers
In 1963 the great American modernist took to the streets of New York, becoming an unlikely voice against the destruction of a Beaux-Arts landmark
Here's how to make a Putnam & Putnam floral display
In this clip, Michael Putnam builds up a beautifully coordinated display, on location at Rose Story Farm in California
Brutalism catches up with the Kardashians
'I’ve finally made it,' says This Brutal World’s author, as he spies his book in Kylie Jenner’s home
The true tales behind the world's greatest cocktails
Spirited: Cocktails from Around the World reveals the fascinating origins of the drinks we enjoy today
All you need to know about Life Meets Art
Our new interiors title delivers a peerless tour of the homes of some of the most inspiring, extraordinary and creative people to have ever lived, from Elvis Presley to Leonardo da Vinci, Herman Melville to Moby
Pile on! It's the last few days to get Wolfgang Tillmans' fine art posters, and help save the world's nightlife
You've got one week to secure works by Tillmans, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons and others, and help struggling venues
Mikey and Darroch Putnam make lockdown work for them
Beyoncé, Bougainvillea and some good books become part of the happily married couple's new LA lifestyle
Ready for retail therapy again? Peter Marino's new Dior store in Paris is a beautiful place to start!
The architect and collector has overseen Dior’s huge new, art-filled retail space on rue Saint-Honoré in the French capital
The message behind Kerry James Marshall’s new avian art
The American painter draws on the work of John James Audubon when creating his own American birds series
All you need to know about Spirited - Cocktails from Around the World
Our authoritative, global overview of cocktail recipes, from the classic to the cutting-edge, is a deeply satisfying mix
Great Woman Artist Ruth Asawa gets her own set of stamps
The 2020 set of 10 postage stamp designs showcases the wiry work of the American sculptor
What happened when Aaron Bertelsen tried Stephen Harris’s ice cream recipe?
The Great Dixter gardener and cook goes from pot to plate, courtesy of a recipe from The Sportsman chef
How Philip Johnson looked back, as well as forward
Take a look at the other New Canaan house that proves the acclaimed architect was more than a Mies-inspired Modernist
Jenny Holzer on the creation of the New York City AIDS Memorial
'Love, and lovely words overflowing, ardent unashamed people abounding.' The artist is 70 today - here she remembers one of her most important works
Marc Jacobs remembers his friend Kansai Yamamoto
Jacobs recalls the fortuitous, early commission he received from the late, great Japanese fashion designer
The Korean war may have split the country - but it helped shape its two art scenes
On the anniversary of the armistice, we examine how conflict and military influence changed North and South Korean art
The motherly ambition that spurred on Philip Johnson
Philip was the vehicle for achieving his mother’s cultural aspirations, and she poured all of her knowledge and energy into his intellectual formation
Bruce Mau Know How - Draw a Stick Man To Unlock a Big Idea
In Bruce Mau: MC24, the designer, thinker and educator argues that everyone can improve their thought processes through a simple sketch
Pentagram turns The High Line dotty to help fight Covid-19
Paula Scher oversees a new visual identity to aid social distancing following the park’s reopening
Ana Roš : 'Globalisation didn't touch us and it's helped the food'
'Slovenia might not have had a high-class dining culture, but whatever it lacks in haute cuisine, it more than makes up for in ingredients and tradition' she says in new interview
Here's Bruce Mau to tell you about his new book!
MC24 is the book we need right now to change our lives, change how we work and change our futures. Watch the legendary designer explain
The New York restaurant where Philip Johnson held court
Did Johnson’s gossipy nature, often indulged at the Four Seasons restaurant help improve architecture in America?
Art = Faith
Our new book Art = doesn’t just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met’s collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. We consider the religious roots of so much artistic creation
