Sense of Style
Beta Plus Publishing
18 new portraits of the homes and workplaces of artists, designers, architects and other creatives from all over the world.
Specifications - Softcover. 224 pages. Measurement: 220mm x 297 mm.
18 new portraits of the homes and workplaces of artists, designers, architects and other creatives from all over the world.
Specifications - Softcover. 224 pages. Measurement: 220mm x 297 mm.
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Stillness is an exploration of Japanese aesthetics in architecture and design from a Scandinavian perspective. Across the seas, two distant regions have developed similar approaches to design and architecture that share a respect for nature, a sensitivity to light, and a dedication to craft. Exemplifying the book concept is the description of a traditional Japanese tokonoma room, which is an alcove that is used to display art, calligraphy, or flower arrangements. The tokonoma is a space filled with symbolic and spiritual meaning. The book then juxtaposes such a room with the Scandinavian interpretation of it, displaying photographs of both (inspired Japanese flower arrangements, Fresh Green Leafs hanging from a wall vase at the Sjöparken Lake Villa, Sweden).
Specifications - Hardcover. 304 pages. Measurement: 24,5 × 33 cm
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Exploring boundless possibilities, the United States has unveiled a treasury of iconic buildings. Combining a deep respect for individualism with an unwavering optimism for the future, these structures are as varied as they are captivating. American Icons - The Architecture of the United States: Visions and Defiance delves into the visionary works that have defined American skylines. From the organic residences of Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff to Frank Gehry’s postmodernist objets d’art, the book showcases a myriad of groundbreaking architectural masterpieces. Enhanced with carefully curated professional photography, each page of this captivating book title unveils the stories behind these landmarks through insightful articles penned by architectural expert Sam Lubell.
Specifications - Hardcover. 288 pages. Measurement: 24,5 × 33 cm
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Dining out is so much more than just what you can order off the menu. Tasteful serves up a selection of restaurant interiors that add an eye-catching element to the dining experience. Our appetite for unique and immersive dining experiences is insatiable. From flamboyant Italian eateries to minimalist Nordic gastronomic spots and sophisticated, dimly lit lounges, Tasteful is a curated selection of the most eye-catching new interiors of restaurants, cafés, bars, and all kinds of food haunts. Featuring a variety of styles from a host of diverse designers and locations around the planet, Tasteful serves as both a travel guide for intrepid foodies and an inspiration for those passionate about design.
Specifications - Hardcover. 255 pages. Measurement: 24 × 30 cm
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The quality of Italian cuisine is based on the quality of its ingredients. For Italians, the quality of the basic ingredients in their dishes is everything. For some, it’s even as important as the air they breathe. This is why classic, homemade Italian food is incomparable to any other in the world. Its richness of taste belies its apparent simplicity, and it’s all down to the superior quality of those timeless, key elements that truly makes traditional Italian cooking so flavourful. Originale is not just another recipe book. It is, in essence, a guide. A manual on how to do it like the Italians. The dozens of inspiring recipes within these pages are built from a handful of crucial ingredients that, if sourced correctly—as detailed in this book—can transport you directly to the kitchens of Rome, Naples, or Bologna via your own plate. Originale is lovingly curated to celebrate the enduring nature of Italian cuisine, its history, and culture. Buon appetito!
Specifications - Hardcover. 272 pages. Measurement: 22,5 × 29 cm
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The potato is one of the most versatile foods on the planet, presenting numerous possibilities in terms of preparation and consumption. Potato Total delves into the art of perfecting potato cooking techniques, ranging from achieving the ultimate crispiness in French fries to mastering the precision required for hasselback potatoes. Alongside classic recipes like hash browns, tortillas, and croquettes, the book showcases a range of international delights such as papas arrugadas, tartiflette, and potato focaccia. With approximately 90 diverse recipes, Potato Total not only provides a culinary journey but also imparts valuable and expert knowledge on cultivating your own potatoes.
Specifications - Hardcover. 192 pages. Measurement: 18 × 24 cm
Jonas Harboe Frederiksen
Østers er både elsket og hadet af danskerne. Tidligere var østers en fattigmandsspise, men i dag er de en luksus, der inviterer til nytænkende smagskombinationer og evig kreativitet i køkkenet.
Marc Hom
Part museum experiment, part documentary book project: Re-Framed shows the work of famed photographer Marc Hom in a whole new light. In this combined indoor/outdoor exhibition, viewers engage with the medium of portrait photography via the juxtaposition of a controlled classical indoor show with sculpture-like eleven-foot- tall photographs displayed and left exposed outdoors in the open air. This creates a new way to experience photography in an ever-evolving environment, while discovering oversized, larger-than-life pieces amidst the green lawn and lakeshore behind the museum building. Hom’s outdoor studio portraits, displayed in flexible three-meter-high frames, are vulnerable to elements that change the viewing experience: literally, the wind and weather.
Specifications - Hardcover. 160 pages. 23,5 x 30 cm
550BC
June 2024
Second Edition
The First Edition was published in November 2019.
This edition also includes new content from 2020 - 2024.
Crowbar Hotel: Live From CDCR is the culmination of contraband smartphone photos taken in prison by incarcerated Bloods and Crips gang members. Photos and videos were sent in by inmates, with content found by following their social media accounts. Most of the content was created between 2016 and 2019 from different CDCR state prisons in California, such as Lancaster, California City, Corcoran, Calipatria, and other facilities. The incarcerated depicted serve sentences varying from minimum to maximum, in security level one to level four.
Young gangbangers ready to prove themselves and prison-hardened gangsters that have done twenty years and counting.
The book is a visual anthropological documentation of the secret smartphone activity of Bloods and Crips gang members locked up in California state prisons; who also represent the majority of (online active) inmates.
The content includes satellite photos of CDCR prison facilities, portraits, and video stills of inmates tattooing, working out, and cooking inside their cells.
Specifications - Softcover (Thread Sewn). 324 pages. Dimensions: 22 x 17 cm
550BC
April 2024
Third Edition
The First Edition was published in December 2021
The Second Edition was published in June 2022
Ultra Violent is a visual study that focuses on the appearance and behavior of diehard football club fans, known as Ultras and Casuals.
Men join these groups and riot for fun because it’s an instant way to feel they’re connected to a community. The antisocial kick is like doing drugs: bad for you but addictive. Violence produces endorphins and lets their adrenaline flow. It’s like sex – you live in the moment.
This publication comprises low-resolution grayscale images, reframed and cut to create a new, first-person perspective of the lifestyles of football fanatics from the streets to the stands.
When you quickly flip through this book, it hardly differs from zapping through hundreds of news channels or scrolling through your timeline on social media. The enormous number of (horrific) images we see every day, unsolicited, makes us realize less and less what we are actually looking at. We cannot (and do not want to) close ourselves off from our contemporary, violent visual culture. The author used hardcore football culture to study this.
Specifications - Hardcover. 100 pages. Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm
Hatze Cantz
A multistoried apartment building. Its plaster is grayish beige and exudes a kind of petit-bourgeois tristesse; it has the requisite carpeted balcony railings, the lone flower box, even the deckchair is there. A familiar view. It is only on second glance that we see that something is wrong. All of the balcony doors lead to nowhere, and in turn, the balconies themselves cannot be accessed.
German photographer Frank Kunert (*1963 in Frankfurt/Main) has not uncovered any sort of architectural scandal. With Balcony is one of the works that sensitively and enigmatically turn familiar narrative contexts upside down and question reality itself. Far from being simply photographic satire, Kunert’s miniatures give three-dimensional form to puns on thoughts and words, making them tangible in the truest sense of the word. Kunert spends weeks constructing his model sets down to the smallest detail and then photographs them in his studio—in the process, creating the antithesis of worn and hackneyed concepts and ideas.
Specifications - Hardcover. 72 pages. Measurement: 22.5 × 22.5cm
David Raskin
This pioneering book, the first scholarly monograph devoted to Donald Judd, addresses the whole breadth of Judd's practices. Drawing on documents found in nearly twenty archives, David Raskin explains why some of Judd's works of art seem startlingly ephemeral while others remain insistently physical. In the process of answering this previously perplexing question, Raskin traces Judd's principles from his beginnings as an art critic through his fabulous installations and designs in Marfa, Texas. He discusses Judd's early important paintings and idiosyncratic red objects, as well as the three-dimensional works that are celebrated throughout the world. He also examines Judd's commitment to empirical values and his political activism, and concludes by considering the importance of Judd's example for recent art. Ultimately, Raskin develops a picture of Judd as never before seen: he shows us an artist who asserted his individuality with spare designs; who found spiritual values in plywood, Plexiglas, and industrial production; who refused to distinguish between thinking and feeling while asserting that science marked the limits of knowledge; who claimed that his art provided not just intuitions of morality but a specific set of tenets; and who worked for political causes that were neither left nor right.
Specifications - Hardcover. 196 pages. Measurement: 28 × 23 cm
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VELO City continues the celebration of the bicycle and its ongoing (r)evolution, because cycling is far more than just an eco-friendly connection from A to B.
Specifications - Hardcover. 256 pages. Measurement: 24 × 28 cm
