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African Metropolitan ArchitectureWritten by David Adjaye, Edited by Peter Allison The architecture and built environment of African cities are documented in groundbreaking photographs by acclaimed architect David Adjaye. David Adjaye is renowned for his highly acclaimed buildings in Europe and the United States. Of Tanzanian descent but raised and educated in London, he has found endless inspiration for his modern buildings in Africa. This book is the culmination of a personal quest–a decadelong project to document the built environment of every major African city. November 2011 | Trade Paperback | 568 pages | $100.00 
Alberto Pinto: World InteriorsWritten by Alberto Pinto and Julien Morel In this sumptuous book, Alberto Pinto excels at creating a perfect harmony of volume and space by bringing fresh inspiration to established design principles. He assembles an unprecedented range of styles by merging his client’s tastes with his own flair for creativity. January 2012 | Hardcover | 256 pages | $75.00 
Coats Max Mara: 60 Years of Italian FashionEdited by Adelheid Rasche The updated story of the Italian company, one of the most important fashion houses in the world, with material from the company’s precious archive. Thanks to a realistic approach and an all-round sense of fashion, Max Mara has been able to sustain its principles and priorities over time, values that are recognised the world over: superior quality, fashion content, superb tailoring even in mass production, design and research and last but not least, leadership in distribution and… December 2011 | Hardcover | 336 pages | $65.00 
Dazed & ConfusedWritten by Jefferson Hack, Edited by Jo-Ann Furniss, Foreword by Ingrid Sischy Celebrating twenty years of an agenda-setting powerhouse of contemporary style, design, and popular culture. Celebrated for discovering and promoting new artists, musicians, designers, and filmmakers, Dazed & Confused magazine has been a barometer of popular style and culture since its founding in London in 1991 by Jefferson Hack and the photographer Rankin. November 2011 | Hardcover | 336 pages | $60.00 
Dior CoutureText by Ingrid Sischy, Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier Dior is one of the most revered names in fashion, the archetype of the Parisian couture house. Famous for launching the “New Look,” Christian Dior’s landmark first collection that marked a sea change in women’s dress after the Second World War, Dior is known today for its exquisite couture line of dramatic dresses. November 2011 | Hardcover | 250 pages | $115.00 
Flogging a Dead HorseWritten by Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman, Edited by Fuel, Contribution by Nick Hackworth and Tim Marlow The definitive monograph, collecting twenty years of work by two iconoclastic and subversive contemporary British artists. Jake and Dinos Chapman’s work has come to define the spirit and impact of a generation of contemporary artists we know as the YBAs. Taking many forms across many mediums, from major installations to miniature sculpture, from etchings and drawings to films and performances, their work together and individually examines contemporary politics and morality with characteristic irreverence and profoundly caustic… November 2011 | Hardcover | 336 pages | $85.00 
Howard HodgkinWritten by Asmund Thorkildsen Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (born 1932) is a British painter and printmaker. His first solo show was in London in 1962. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, in 1985, he won the Turner Prize, and in 1992, he was knighted. His early paintings tend to be made up of hard-edged curved forms in a limited number of colors. Around the beginning of the 1970s, his style became more spontaneous, with vaguely recognizable… January 2012 | Hardcover | 80 pages | $55.00 
Lavazza: Con Te PartiroText by Vincenzo Cerami, Francesca Lavazza and Marco Testa, Edited by Fabio Novembre, Illustrated by Milo Manara January 2012 | Hardcover | 175 pages | $75.00 
The Mastery of TimeWritten by Dominique Flechon, Foreword by Franco Cologni More than a simple chronology, this volume explores the technical resources used to measure time—solar, hydraulic, mechanical, or electrical—just as it explains the key factors behind the major breakthroughs in the science of horology. January 2012 | Hardcover | 456 pages | $100.00 
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los AngelesWritten by Richard Meyer and Int’l Center of Photography, Contribution by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange In 1946, the tabloid photographer known as Weegee relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. Abandoning the grisly crime scenes for which he was best known, Weegee trained his camera instead on Hollywood celebrities, starlets, autograph seekers, and shop-window mannequins, sometimes distorted through trick lenses and multiple exposures. “Now I could really photograph the subjects I liked,” said Weegee of his newfound career in Los Angeles, “I was free.” November 2011 | Hardcover | 144 pages | $45.00 |
