A native of Istanbul, Sevan Bicakci is a luminary in jewelry design, fusing elements of Byzantine and Ottoman history, storytelling, and architecture into his award- winning creations. Bicakci is best known for his majestic rings crafted with his signature reverse-intaglio technique, in which monuments, mythological figures, animals, birds, and flowers …
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The Kinfolk Table: Recipes for Small Gatherings
Kinfolk magazine is a quarterly journal about understated, unfussy entertaining. The journal has captured the imagination of readers with content and an aesthetic that reflect a desire to go back to simpler times; to take a break from our busy lives; to build a community around a shared sensibility; and …
Read More »Dining with the Maharajas: Thousand Years of Culinary Tradition
Dining with the Maharajas: Thousand Years of Culinary Tradition brings the invaluable legacy of Indian royals as ten families open up their palaces and homes to allow you a glimpse into their charmed lives that straddle tradition and modernity.
Read More »Tom Dixon: Dixonary
Dixonary is a comprehensive book on one of Britain’s best-known and most highly regarded product designers. In his own words, and with hundreds of comparative illustrations interleaved with text, this self-taught designer illuminates the often surprising ideas behind his finished pieces. Dixon transforms notions of plumpness observed in a painting …
Read More »D.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients
The book is Alex Atala’s first major cookbook. Here, he offers an in-depth look at the products and creative process that make up his innovative cuisine. The book features 65 recipes such as Fresh Heart of Palm with Scallops and Coral Sauce; Lightly Toasted Black Rice with Green Vegetables and …
Read More »Erik Kessels In Almost Every Picture 11: Fred & Valerie
This edition is entirely dedicated to photographs from Fred and Valerie, a couple from Florida who share a passion for wet fun adventure. One is the photographer, one is the model, and water is the medium. They take every opportunity to get wet, no matter what they are wearing or …
Read More »The James Bond Archives
To celebrate 50 years of this innovative franchise, EON Productions opened their archives of photos, designs, storyboards, and production materials to editor Paul Duncan, who spent two years researching over one million images and 100 filing cabinets of documentation. The result is the most complete account of the making of …
Read More »Nobuyoshi Araki: Bondage
Meaning literally “the beauty of tight binding,” Kinbaku-bi, the Japanese art of erotic bondage has long fascinated Nobuyoshi Araki, who has made it one of his most important subjects. He’s been called a genius and a poet, and also a misogynist, a pornographer, a monster, but Araki’s work transcends simplistic …
Read More »A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories
by April Bloomfield In A Girl and Her Pig, April Bloomfield takes home cooks on an intimate tour of the food that has made her a star. Thoughtful, voice-driven recipes go behind the scenes of Bloomfield’s lauded restaurants—The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and The John Dory—and into her own home …
Read More »Indochine: Stories, Shaken and Stirred
New York’s iconic downtown restaurant Indochine celebrates its 25th anniversary and the book containes stories by Salman Rushdie, Moby, Julianne Moore, and Bob Colacello are combined with photographs by Patrick McMullan, Roxanne Lowit, and Patrick Demarchelier, along with artworks by Francesco Clemente, Helmut Lang, Tom Sachs, Ruben Toledo, Narciso Rodriguez, Ross Bleckner, …
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