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Paulo Mendes da Rocha - La ville pour tous
2026
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
La ville pour tous is a collection of writings by the great architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, offering an overview of his work and of Brazilian society in the second half of the twentieth century.
Maghras - A Farm for Experimentation
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras: A Farm for Experimentation (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge.
Écodesign et Création - 3 volumes boxset
2025
French edition
Écodesign et Création
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
Three years of exploring avenues opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives (box set containing the three volumes S'attacher, 2023, Produire, 2024, and Prendre soin, 2025).
Donald Judd - The Low Countries - 1966–1971
2025
English edition
MER. Books
Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.
Bien faire & le faire savoir
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
The "doing" in art and design research.
Azimuts - Stories of composite
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
Focusing on contributions that explore composites as forms of art and design, as research methodologies and practices, and/or as theoretical concepts, issue 60 of the journal Azimuts proposes look at composites as a way of presenting or representing realities.
Nathalie du Pasquier - So Many Real Things
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions de l'Observeur
Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.
Martin Szekely - Debut
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les commissaires anonymes - Objet d'étude
Monograph dedicated to the famous designer's early work.
David Dubois - En mouvement
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
An overview of the multifaceted work of designer and set designer David Dubois, with a text by critic Jeanne Quéheillard.
Azimuts - Graphisme(s): Transmitting gestures, tools, thoughts and practices today
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
Azimuts - Récits dé-composites
2025
French edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
Focusing on contributions that explore composites as forms of art and design, as research methodologies and practices, and/or as theoretical concepts, issue 60 of the journal Azimuts proposes look at composites as a way of presenting or representing realities.
Andrea Branzi - Mosca 1962
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A photographic report by the famous Italian architect and designer on his youthful trip to Moscow during the political “thaw.”
Écodesign et Création - Prendre soin
2025
French edition
Écodesign et Création
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
An exploration of the opportunities opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives.
 Atelier E.B - Atelier E.B 2026 Calendar
2025
no text
Bierke
Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie develop their joint projects. Atelier E.B's 2026 calendar is dedicated to the duo's spectacular window displays (2019-2025). These exhibitions feature garments from their fashion label arranged by professional window dressers—integrating the shopping experience into the exhibition context.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
Tools - To Spin
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.
Ronan Bouroullec - Inchiostri + Inchiostri Supplement
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of vases by Ronan Bouroullec made in Murano in collaboration with the Maestro glassblower Simone Cenedese.
3000 Days of Archives Related to the Optics and Glasses Frame Industry
2025
English edition
various
A visual journey through the forgotten corners of the eyewear industry, 3000 Days Of Archives Related To The Optics And Glasses Frame Industry is a testament to the richness of forgotten material culture, at the crossroads of visual culture, industrial design, photography and archival research.
Marco A. Castillo - The Decorator\'s Home / La casa del decorador
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
The Decorator's Home delves into Marco A. Castillo's exploration of the development of industrial design in the 1960s and 1970s Cuba, examining its complex and often contradictory ties to the revolutionary ideals of the time.
Antoine Lecharny - Disegno Astratto
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
The experiments of an "abstract design" made by the duo Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny.
Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
L\'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Cité du design / ESADSE
A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.
Ressource(s), présager demain - Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2025
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
Designers and researchers question the notion of resources (being material, human or intellectual) and our everyday habits to explore the ways in which design can respond to contemporary issues by rethinking production, consumption and innovation (the catalogue of the 13th Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial).
Federico Pepe - Every Thing About Nothing<sup>TM</sup>
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Federico Pepe fills the void in our lives, multiplying the ecstasy of emptiness ad infinitum (a project by Federico Pepe & Le Dictateur Studio curated by Elena Volpato).
 Formafantasma - Down Under - The Curious Fall of a Child Who Knew Nothing and Became Everything
2025
English edition
Nero
An ecological fable by the design duo Formafantasma, beautifully illustrated by Clément Vuillier and accompanied by a rich selection of scientific texts exploring the intricate relationship between humans, the environment, and other organisms.
Marco Zanuso - Yemen 1979
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographic album of a trip to Yemen by one of the great architects and designers of the twentieth century.
Hubert Renard - La vie illustrée d\'Hubert Renard
2025
French edition
mfc-michèle didier
In this artist's book, Hubert Renard's search for himself leads us to meet other characters who have marked out his private life, like so many essential players in his accomplishment.
Shiro Kuramata - Alaïa / Kuramata - Lightness in Creation
2025
English edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Azimuts - Graphisme(s) : Transmettre aujourd\'hui les gestes, les outils, les pensées, les pratiques
2025
French edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
Flash Art Volumes - Anti Composition
2025
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art Volumes
For its second issue, Flash Art's yearly review Flash Art Volumes invited Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the New York–based architecture practice ANY as guest editors. They have titled this edition "Crisis Formalism."
Résider/Réhabiter - Deux saisons aux Arques
2025
French edition
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
A reflection on the experience and challenges of an artistic residency in a rural environment, nourished by the thought of re-habitation.
Azimuts - Use of artificial intelligence in art and design
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.
Matali Crasset - Les terreblements / La communauté des cratères - Fantaisie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.
Tomás Maldonado - Vers une écologie critique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.
David Bihanic - Du gouvernement des formes
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
On the relationship between architecture and design.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte II
2025
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
currently out of stock
The new edition of Campo di Marte by Nathalie Du Pasquier is enriched with sixteen additional compositions, expanding and complementing the original selection of the first edition.
 Every Island - A Comparative Dialogue Act - The Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (book + vinyl LP)
2025
Lenz Press
Consisting of a richly illustrated booklet and a record vinyl, this special release accompanies the performative sound-based project A Comparative Dialogue Act by artists Andrea Mancini and the collective Every Island, hosted in the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Shiro Kuramata - Alaïa / Kuramata - La légèreté en création
2025
French edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Toutes les images de match de foot sont les mêmes images - Collection 105/150
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
All television images seem to be the same image. An artist and researcher at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, Lorenza Mannaioni, attempts to prove this with this book of felt-tip pen images.
Offline
2025
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
currently out of stock
The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.
Kim Hastreiter - STUFF - A New York Life of Cultural Chaos
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved Paper magazine, has spent the last 50 years amassing a vast and iconoclastic collection of stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF, chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiter's singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens.
Alexandra Midal - Do You Speak Flower?
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
Manuel Raeder - Stickcal 2025
2024
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Studio Manuel Raeder's 2025 sticker calendar.
Temples for Industrious Lombards – Architecture by Mario Galvagni in Inveruno / Templi per lombardi laboriosi – Architetture di Mario Galvagni a Inveruno
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The extravagant villas designed between the 1960s and 1980s by Italian architect Mario Galvagni (1928-2020) for prosperous Lombard families.
Umberto Riva - USA 1966
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.
 Forty five degrees - Radical Rituals - 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E (France)
2024
English edition
Punch
Centered around the themes of latent knowledges, earth uprisings and borders, this second volume in the Radical Rituals series is the result of a research residency carried by forty five degrees collective in the summer of 2022 across France, from 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E.
Écodesign et Création - Produire
2024
French edition
Écodesign et Création
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.
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