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Micro TattoosThe World's Top Fine Line Tattoo ArtistsMicro tattoos have gained popularity in the past decade and made the art of tattooing more accessible for many people. This book showcases the work of a new generation of fine line tattoo artists worldwide. It contains a handy alphabetical overview of the artists, a selection of their finest work and interviews with (amongst others) Eva Karabudak from Atelier Eva, Soltattoo and Edit Paints.With work by Jake Nowicz, Mr. K, Daniel Berdiel, Bombayfoor, and many others.

London Interiors? The most inspiring interiors in beautiful cities all over the worldFrom richly decorative to coolly pared-back, London homes are always unexpected. Behind the front doors of the city's ubiquitous terraces lies a wealth of design inspiration, while seemingly inhospitable buildings, whether converted gin distilleries, concrete new builds or former dairies, have been given fresh life thanks to the city's famously creative inhabitants.Over the years, multiple influences have inspired the capital's design sensibility, including the relaxed elegance pioneered by Colefax and Fowler in the mid-twentieth century, the simple, softly modern rooms of Terence Conran a decade or two later and the restrained schemes of interior architects such as John Minshaw. More recently its interiors have favoured a return to a playful, loosened up look: blowsy florals, clashing colours, vibrant prints and plenty of frills and fringing.London Interiors captures all of these influences and celebrates the cosmopolitan nature of a truly diverse city.

500 off-the-beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone who's keen to explore New York's best-kept secrets, e.g.? The 5 best spots for slurping oysters? 5 places where you can enjoy art for free? The 5 best hotel and rooftop bars? 5 historic houses that fire the imagination? The 5 best places to shop like a New Yorker? ... and much moreThe 500 Hidden Secrets is a series of essential city guides. Every guide? is written by savvy locals? only contains independent advice? is based on thorough research and the authors' personal opinions? is frequently updated and reissued. Michiel Vos lives in Manhattan and works a Dutch-American correspondent for Dutch and Belgian TV and radio. Ellen Swandiak, founder of hobnobmag.com, is a lifelong New Yorker with an penchant for discovery. Erinn Springer is an American photographer whose work centers on human connection and the portraiture of people and place.

Japandi LivingJapanese tradition. Scandinavian design.? More than 200 images of interior design in which Japanese aesthetics and Scandinavian design go hand in handScandinavian and Japanese design styles 'highlight' the philosophy of 'less is more', each in its own way. When put together, a unique new concept called 'Japandi' arises. Influenced by the ancient Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi and the Scandinavian's practice of hygge, Japandi celebrates refined quality, subtlety and craftsmanship. It takes the minimalistic home to another level of luxury and elegance.With more than two hundred inspiring images of the most beautiful Japandi interiors and designs, this book inspires its readers to transform their own homes into elegant, comfortable and decluttered places - to establish harmony with their environment, away from the hectic world outside.'For me Japandi is also about making conscious choices and appreciating what you already have. In this book I share practical tips and tricks and lots of inspiration to help you create your Japandi-inspired home.' - Laila Rietbergen

Outdoor interiors-Tips, tricks, and inspiration for creating wonderful spaces in your garden where you can work, play, entertain, and dine-Includes over 200 prestigious projects worldwideOutdoor Interiors showcases the most beautiful garden designs in the world. Author Juliet Roberts highlights five styles - ?traditional',?contemporary', ?playful', ?everyday' and ?minimal' - and gives plenty of tips for achieving the same style in your garden across differentcategories (dining, sitting, lounge, cooking and swimming). The result is a stylish coffee table book full of inspiration.British Juliet Roberts writes for various media about all kinds of gardens and greenery. She is the author of The Organic Kitchen Garden.

Where can you find the 5 most irresistible indoor street food trucks in Berlin? What are the 5 best shops if you're looking for Berlin fashion? And what are the 5 most beautiful parks with a genuine Berlin spirit? The 500 Hidden Secrets of Berlin reveals these good-to-know addresses and many more. It's an affectionate guide to the city, written by Berlin explorer Nathalie Dewalhens. She has selected places and details that few people know, like an open-air bar next to the river Spree with a wooden dance floor and a fairytale hut, a crane house with a café, located in a post-GDR industrial area, or a beautiful tango venue in a former warehouse from 1908. This is a book for visitors who want to avoid the usual tourist spots and for residents who are keen to track down the city's best-kept secrets. After having travelled the world Nathalie Dewalhens now considers Berlin as her home. She is working on her first novel there, preferably while sipping a latte in a bar. Philip Bögle is a Berlin based photographer who thinks of his hometown as a city that never sleeps, and as the perfect place to live and work, capturing moments, people and fashion.

◙ Introducing the Kraft and Pink Mini Notebook - a must-have pocket-sized companion. Enjoy full-colour hardcover brilliance with vibrant fluorescent pink edges and endpapers featuring a surprise Twilight Risograph style illustration inside the front cover. Capture your ideas on 120 dot-grid pages, perfect for note-taking, list-making, and doodling.◙ Our Black Mini Notebook is a chic little black notebook update in contrast to our splashy abstract museum art designs. This little book is fashionable and fits in any pocket or purse, perfect as a little gift for men and women, very functional for work, work from home, great for shopping lists, to do lists, reminders, password keeper, etc.◙ This Mini Notebook has 120 dot-grid pages in a soft matte finish hard cover.◙ The new line of products with bright fluorescent edges and Kraft covers are inspired by contemporary product design and fine art/printmaking.◙ Each Classic Black Mini Notebook has a surprise checkerboard print pattern inside the first page. All artworks are based on the risograph photocopy printing technique made popular in the 1980s.◙ Portable 127mm x 88mm size, lay-flat binding, and smooth matte finish cover art. Our selection showcases classic and contemporary fine artists, alongside talented emerging illustrators and designers worldwide. Elevate your creativity with this unique and stylish mini notebook.

◙ The teNeues Black Small Bullet Journal is very portable in a soft matte cover.◙ Our Small Bullet Journal is a great choice for business, home office, and always purse size. Our exposed binding and painted edges are a design trademark making our book the best designed option in the marketplace of notebooks.◙ 120 pages, dot-grid paper, designer black edging.◙ This is a portable, soft cover, notebook with dot grid pages and lays flat when it's opened.◙ Find a surprise black and white polka dot endpaper art instide the front cover, adding some design energy and optimism to the whole package.

Important: This book is the 18th book in our Superhero Universe! One fateful day, 15-year-old Jordan Morris set out to the shopping mall with a simple mission: to pick up a cake for his younger brother's birthday. Little did he know that this seemingly ordinary outing would thrust him into a nightmarish ordeal. Explosions shattered the tranquility of the mall, bullets filled the air, and chaos reigned. In the midst of this madness, a sinister figure known as 'The Naughty Soul' emerged, his aim to sow discord and anarchy throughout the city. 'The Naughty Soul' was a man unhinged by unspeakable tragedy-his family had been cruelly taken from him in a heart-wrenching shooting incident. Now, he sought vengeance against a society he believed had failed him, resorting to violence to underscore the urgent need for gun control reform. Jordan managed to survive the horrifying ordeal, but the scars of that day would linger. A little later, destiny led Jordan to New Vazuno, the majestic city ruled by King Aessoid, as part of a school excursion. A twist of fate awaited him as a gravity-defying accident bestowed upon him incredible superpowers. Yet, as 'The Naughty Soul' continued to wreak havoc in the streets of Chicago, Jordan found himself faced with a life-altering decision. Amidst the chaos, villains closing in on him, and both the police and the enigmatic T.O.P.A.H. organization hot on his trail, he must choose whether to rise as a hero or remain in the shadows.

- For china and porcelain collectors everywhere, tips on entertaining in a formal setting, beautiful illustrationsThe dinnerware of presidents and the teacups of dignitaries. Mottahedeh, founded 100 years ago and based on Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh's passion for antiques, is the most distinguished ceramics reproduction company today. With meticulous craft, attention to detail, and storied partners such as the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Historic Charleston Foundation, Mount Vernon, and Winterthur, Mottahedeh continues to create some of the most highly sought-after pieces on the market. For 30 years, Wendy Kvalheim has led this company into modern times. Splendid Settings: 100 Years of Mottahedeh Design is a testament to both Mottahedeh's inimitable style and Kvalheim's unique vision of the future. This is not your grandma's china. In this lavishly illustrated celebration of Mottahedeh centenary hundreds of Mottahedeh's finest pieces are showcased; from classical dinner services in the great historical houses of America, to the placement of Mottahedeh pieces in modern New York lofts and contemporary Palm Beach, Florida dwellings, each page is an unexpected joy.

For what is a home really, but our soul's residence in the outer world? Using design to bring out the innermost parts of ourselves, Lisa Staprans creates layered spaces that envelope, heal, and nurture. By weaving the spiritual and the scientific worlds together, The Soul of Design looks at everything from the use of ritual to the latest science on the connection between the brain, design, and wellness. Equal parts personal history, manifesto, and luxurious illustration, this book places Staprans as the leading spokesperson for the neuroscience of beauty. Set in the hills and redwood forests of Northern California, aided by collaborations with artisans, furniture makers, and architects, and guided by a keen mind and sensitive spirit, The Soul of Design answers the deeper questions about what design is truly capable of.

In Uncross Your Legs: A Life in Fashion, learn the story behind the man whose vision, over 60 years, has dramatically helped forge and transform American style.

This new edition, published in 2011 to mark the centenary of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska arrival in Britain from France, includes previously unpublished material and new essays that re-contextualise the book art historically.

- A comprehensive overview of S.H. Raza's life and work - Featuring over 250 works from Raza's oeuvre - Includes previously unpublished letters and notebooks offering glimpses of the master at work - Detailed chrono-biography situates Raza within the transcultural dynamics of the art world After an early stint in Bombay in the 1940s, with the Progressive Artists' Group, S. H. Raza moved to France, where he spent the next 60 years. This volume explores Raza's artistic trajectory from the time of his arrival in Paris, as well as his contribution to the development of modernism in the Indian subcontinent. Raza's strong thrust towards non-figurative art, and subsequent influences from European and American modernism, combined with his memories and impressions of India, led him to a skillful negotiation between Indian spirituality and Western abstraction. Beginning with early works developed in India before 1947, the essays in this volume analyze Raza's later abstraction processes and landscapes. An anthology of previously unpublished letters offer glimpses of the master at work, and a detailed chrono-biography situates him within the transcultural dynamics of the 1950s to the 1980s. Accompanying the S.H. Raza exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2023, this monograph presents a compelling overview of Raza's work and the highlights of his journey. Published in association with the Raza Foundation, New Delhi and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

- Chronicles for the first time Ganesh Haloi's decades-long artistic and pedagogic practice - Featuring nearly 250 works with previously unpublished folios of illustrations and sketches from artist's life - Documents Haloi's unique vocabulary of abstraction and landscape - Comprehensive study of Haloi's lifework deeply attentive always to the unfolding present Ganesh Haloi, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh), moved to Calcutta in 1950 after the Partition of India. Witness to India's resilient culture, its freedom and struggle for its secular modernism, Haloi is among the artists of the generation who have played a significant role in the shaping of Indian modern art. Haloi has cultivated a singular vocabulary of abstraction and landscape. This painterly world is textured with knowledge references that the artist is attuned to over decades -- from archeology, ancient architecture, art history to sacred philosophy and poetry. His works are exercises in bringing life to the genre of landscape painting through the assembly of disparate symbolic forms. With extensive essays by eminent art critics interspersed with folios of many previously unpublished works from throughout his life, this monograph documents Haloi's earth-toned abstract vocabulary that has drawn over time on a vast breadth of iconography, ideas, and movements. Published in association with Akar Prakar, Kolkata & New Delhi.

- This incredible book will be packaged in a slipcase along with a certificate of authenticity and a print. These are limited to a maximum of 25 per photographer and are therefore very special collectors' items- This edition includes an 8x10 inch Hahnemuhle PhotoRag Paper print, Lawrence Fried stamp on reverse. Also includes an Iconic Images certificate of authenticity- One of America's most iconic stars, seen through the lens of six top celebrity photographers- Featuring photos by Milton Greene, Terry O'Neill, Eva Sereny, Al Satterwhite, Lawrence Fried and Douglas Kirkland- Includes never-before-seen images of Paul Newman on stage, on set, and while racing"Newman's preternaturally piercing baby blue eyes shine through in every picture, and he was well aware of how his fame rested on the colour of his irises." -- Peter Sheridan, Daily Express Once, when asked how he'd like to be remembered, Paul Newman replied: "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried. Tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being." As an actor who became a film star, Newman repeatedly tapped into his times and in doing so redefined what movie stardom could be. Newman was a new kind of movie star, bringing a particular authenticity, intensity and sensitivity to his performances. Throughout his career, Newman was extensively photographed: these images enriched film audiences' connection to him as a cool and graceful presence both on and off-screen. Milton Greene, Douglas Kirkland, Lawrence Fried, Terry O'Neill, Al Satterwhite and Eva Sereny are amongst the photographers who worked with Newman on and off-set across his career. From early stage work with his wife, Joanne Woodward, to his love of racing cars, to the essential 1980s drama Absence of Malice to the great success of the new western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the cult favorites, Pocket Money and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Newman's movies were an essential part of American culture. With comment and contributions from the photographers, Paul Newman: Blue Eyed Cool, gathers together portraits, stage, racing and on-set photography -- including never before seen images -- in a celebration of an actor who was always... cool.

- New afterword by Chris Eitel, Kagan's sucessor- Featuring many previously unseen pictures- Charting the future of Kagan's firmWith Vladimir Kagan's death in 2016, the world of design lost one of its most celebrated practitioners. Pointed Leaf Press is honored to be reissuing, in its third edition: Vladimir Kagan: A Lifetime of Avant-Garde Design. In addition to showcasing Kagan's unique impact on post-war American design, this book recounts the amazing story of his life, and retains a moving preface by Tom Ford and poignant foreword by the late architect Zaha Hadid. It also features a new afterword by Chris Eitel, who began as an intern at Kagan's design studio in 2013 and quickly became his protégé, offering an intimate look at the designer and the man. With this first-hand account, Kagan's life and work is more fully contextualized and his legacy more clearly illuminated.

- This guide is absolute proof that the best things in London (and life) are freeThere's more to the capital than overpriced coffee and unaffordable housing. Leave your wallet at home, pick up this guide and have a golden time without spending any silver. From sky-high gardens to riotous gigs, inspiring lectures to roller discos, the activities in this book prove that the best things in life (and London) are free. Emmy Watts (brilliant author of our Opinionated Guides to Eco London and Kids' London) is back with an unabashedly opinionated selection of the coolest, most creative places in the capital.

- The principals on the project showcase their highly refined work for a Houston-based luxury penthouse, set atop the stunning Arabella building- Writer Saxon Henry provides detailed narratives on each space, including wonderful anecdotes with each of the multitude of artisans and craftspeople commissioned to create tailored pieces for the residence- Scores of makers and artists feature in the book, along with details of the process for designing the interiors, materials chosen, and furniture and art object placement- Includes hundreds of richly detailed, full-color photographs, including lavish gatefolds.This beautifully illustrated large-format monograph reveals how multi-disciplinary architectural firm 212box has crafted a luxurious and bespoke penthouse suite in Houston, Texas. The principals on the project collaborated with more than 50 talented artisans and craftspeople -- from sculptors to cabinet makers to painters and ceramicists, among many others -- to create beautifully designed interiors, including furniture, materials, and art objects. The project illustrates how artisanal elements curated during a collaboration between the firm and the homeowner patrons inherently coalesced into nuanced interiors. Set atop of the stunning Arabella building, overlooking the magnificent Houston skyline, this elegant penthouse includes exquisite materiality, detailing, and craftsmanship, from special sliding doors, a uniquely positioned curiosity cabinet, and stunning objets d'art that are tailored to each room, which all together create wonderful stories that connect the residents with an eye for their own collections, their vision and ambiance for each space, and the energy within their home. Along with presenting the building containing the penthouse and the residence itself, renowned writer and journalist Saxon Henry exquisitely introduces readers to each maker as a character in a story. Each space elicits its own experience.

Accompanies the Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism at the Dulwich Picture Gallery 31 March - 10 September 2023Berthe Morisot: Impressionism and the 18th Centuryis the first major UK exhibition of the renowned Impressionist since 1950. In partnership with the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, it will bring together around 30 of Morisot's most important works from international collections, many never seen before in the UK, to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the movement as well as uncovering a previously untold connection between her work and 18th century culture, with around 20 works for comparison.A founding member of the Impressionist group, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was known for her swiftly painted glimpses of contemporary life and intimate domestic scenes. She featured prominently in the Impressionist exhibitions and defied social norms to become one of the movement's most influential figures. Berthe Morisot: Impressionism and the 18th Century will draw on new research and previously unpublished archival material from the Musée Marmottan Monet to trace the roots of her inspiration, revealing the ways in which Morisot engaged with 18th century art and culture, while also highlighting the originality of her artistic vision, which ultimately set her apart from her predecessors.Highlights will include Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight (1875), painted while Morisot was on honeymoon in England, and her striking Self-Portrait (1885), which will appear alongside Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Young Woman (c.1769) from Dulwich Picture Gallery's collection. Apollo revealing his divinity to the shepherdess Issé, after François Boucher (1892), In the Apple Tree (1890) and Julie Manet with her Greyhound Laerte (1893), are among nine paintings on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet, many receiving their first ever showing in the UK.

- An indispensable volume for students and practitioners of design- Presents a wide range of regional craft variations - Outstanding examples of design solutions utilizing traditional crafts- Vital reference resource, inspirational lookbook, and an index of practitionersThis volume aims to create a lavish showcase of the possibilities of Indian crafts being used in expressive, practical and contemporary ways within interior spaces. Practitioners of traditional crafts in the country have been since antiquity using locally available materials to create objects of value used for a variety of purposes. Based on the understanding that the best results are obtained when a craft itself forms the DNA of a design, the contributors take us through the wide range of regional craft variations as well as outstanding examples of design solutions that utilize these crafts. The publication functions as a reference resource, inspirational "lookbook," and an index of practitioners. With insightful essays on stone; grass, coir and natural fibers; wood; textiles; bamboo and cane; glazed ceramics and terracotta; surface decoration; metal; and glass and mirrorwork accompanied by stunning visuals, this is an indispensable volume for students and practitioners of design. Published in association with Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Mumbai.

Picasso & Abstraction explores a hitherto rarely explored area and demonstrates the sheer power of an extraordinary imagination.From the outset of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ranked as one of the most influential artists in the evolution of the avant-garde and abstract art. From his earliest Cubist experimentations in 1907 with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to his late work, which occasionally verged on gestural painting, Picasso's own relationship with abstraction remains intriguing. Through small steps forward, retractions and reversals, this relationship unfolds chronologically, thus revealing the artist's back-and-forth movement between abstraction and figuration.Testifying on how this evolution unfolded in Pablo Picasso's oeuvre, several essays also address its echo in the Russian avant-garde in the 1910s, his ceramic creations in Vallauris and the resurgence of sacred art in the aftermath of the Second World War.Through a broad selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and etchings - most of which were chosen from the extensive collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris - this book invites us to step inside the artist's studio to discover his creative process.

Mississippi Dream is French photographer Larry Niehues' second book following Nothing Has Changed, his "love letter to America". For this book, Niehues chose to go deeper into his fascination with the Delta region of the United States and focus on the great state of Mississippi. In this passionate exploration inside the culture of the Deep South, Niehues captures aspects of Mississippi far beyond landscapes and blue skies. These are images that were taken throughout 2020 and 2022 while confronting a pandemic, as well as major flooding that deeply affected the Mississippi Delta.This raw and passionate body of work captures a range of moments; from epic performances by Blues legends at iconic local juke joints, to more intimate settings. It documents century-old Baptist traditions and everyday life in what is often referred to as "The Most Southern Place on Earth." The photographs tell a story that feels both nostalgic and surreal, and is sure to inspire a deep sense of what life is like in the Magnolia State. "America is still out there... you just have to look for it." - Larry Niehues

- This first critical catalog of Jean Fautrier's paintings- Accompanies an exhibition at Christie's in Paris in February 2023Jean Fautrier (1989-1964) was a major 20th century artist. Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and influenced by J.M.W. Turner, he was quickly noticed by the collector Jeanne Castel in 1923. At first, his style was figurative and played on contrasts of light. He expertly harnessed the essence of reality in order to transfigure it, redefining the genres of landscape painting, still lifes and nudes (especially in his series of dark works) during the inter-war period. A few years later, his approach underwent a radical shift and became much more abstract. He launched the "Informalist" art movement, playing with pictorial materials and combining different substances to create visions of an extraordinary material quality. Close to the great intellectual figures of his time, including Jean Paulhan, Paul Éluard, Francis Ponge, René Char and André Malraux, Fautrier never ceased producing remarkably powerful and politically resonant works, as is attested by his major series Otages (1943-1945), Objets (1947-1948) and Partisans (1956). In 1960, he was awarded the first prize for painting at the Venice Biennale. Boasting an exceptionally exhaustive iconography, this first ever comprehensive annotated catalogue of Jean Fautrier's paintings includes the technique, origin, exhibitions and bibliography for each work. It is supplemented with a detailed biography, technical analyses and authoritative scientific texts, as well as transcriptions of interviews and radio broadcasts from Fautrier's time.

A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen. Text in English and French.

A monograph on the work of Nick Ervinck, published to accompany the exhibition Nick Ervinck - GNI_RI_may2022 in St James' Church in Ghent from 23 May to 24 July 2022. Text in English and Dutch.

- This luxurious book of more than 360 pages is presented like an album of mostly unpublished photographs, arranged chronologicallyThroughout its century of existence, every moment of Le Mans has been captured in countless photographs. From black & white to color, these particularly vivid images bring to life a whole world: that of the cars, naturally, but also of the many human players - drivers, engineers, mechanics - and the public, always numerous and varied. The authors summarize the moments and actions of the key characters, identifying five major periods: 1923-1929: The time of the pioneers 1930-1967: Reconstruction and globalization 1968-1981: In search of the right solution 1982-1999: The 21st century in sight 2000-2022: A Modern Race Text in English and French.