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The visual heavyweights. Statement pieces.

40 books

The visual heavyweights. Photography, fashion, architecture, and art that demands physical format. These are statement pieces – books that make a room feel curated.

Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake

TASCHEN
Japanese design mastery in book form. The intersection of fabric and architecture.
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Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech

Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech

Virgil Abloh
The definitive record of Virgil's everything-is-a-remix philosophy.
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Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

Elizabeth Semmelhack
How trainers went from sport to status symbol. The cultural history of the sneaker.
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Stan Smith: Some People Think I'm A Shoe

Stan Smith: Some People Think I'm A Shoe

Stan Smith
The tennis legend who became the world's best-selling sneaker. The original crossover.
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Supreme

Supreme

Phaidon
The brand that turned scarcity into a religion. Every drop a cultural event.
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Sneakers x Culture: Collab

Sneakers x Culture: Collab

Elizabeth Semmelhack
When sneakers and culture collide. The collaboration era documented.
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Andy Warhol: A Graphic Biography

Andy Warhol: A Graphic Biography

Michele Botton
Warhol's life as a graphic novel. Pop art in comic form.
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Sneaker of the Year

Sneaker of the Year

U-Dox
Every sneaker that mattered, year by year. The visual timeline of trainer culture.
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Accidentally Wes Anderson

Accidentally Wes Anderson

Wally Koval
The real world styled like a Wes Anderson film. Symmetry and pastel everywhere.
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Paul Smith

Paul Smith

Paul Smith
British design wit in book form. The stripe, the shop, the eye.
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A Book on Books: New Aesthetics in Book Design

A Book on Books: New Aesthetics in Book Design

Gestalten
Book design celebrated as an art form. Meta and beautiful.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Matt Zoller Seitz
The companion to the most visually perfect film ever made. Wes Anderson's masterwork dissected.
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David Shrigley: Fully Coherent Plan

David Shrigley: Fully Coherent Plan

David Shrigley
Absurdist art that makes you laugh then think. Peak Shrigley.
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Cryptopunks

Cryptopunks

Larva Labs
10,000 pixel portraits that started the NFT revolution. Digital art history.
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Art & Sole

Art & Sole

Intercity
Sneaker art and custom culture. Where kicks meet canvas.
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Made by MSCHF

Made by MSCHF

MSCHF
The internet art collective that breaks everything. Chaos as medium.
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KAWS

KAWS

KAWS
XX eyes on everything. Pop art for the streetwear generation.
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Louis Vuitton: Virgil Abloh

Louis Vuitton: Virgil Abloh

Louis Vuitton
Virgil's LV collections documented. When streetwear took over luxury.
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Virgil Abloh: ICONS

Virgil Abloh: ICONS

Nike
The Ten and beyond. Virgil x Nike as a design movement.
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Sneaker of the Year

Sneaker of the Year

Inc Complex Media
A visual celebration of the most influential sneakers and footwear design.
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Midjourney Magazine

Midjourney Magazine

Midjourney
The first physical artifact from the AI image generation movement.
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IN: The Complete Highsnobiety Guide to Street Fashion and Culture

IN: The Complete Highsnobiety Guide to Street Fashion and Culture

Highsnobiety
Gestalten's visual deep-dive into sneaker and streetwear culture.
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Midori Kitamura

Midori Kitamura

Midori Kitamura
The definitive visual record of Issey Miyake's work, compiled by his longtime collaborator Midori Kitamura.
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Unboxed: Japan

Unboxed: Japan

Counterpoint
Why Japanese packaging design is in a league of its own.
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Mid-Century Modern

Mid-Century Modern

Dominic Bradbury
A visual tour through the golden age of modern design. Coffee table perfection.
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Jutaku: Japanese Houses

Jutaku: Japanese Houses

Naomi Pollock
Tiny Japanese homes, extraordinary design. Architecture at its most inventive.
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Man Ray Self-Portrait

Man Ray Self-Portrait

Man Ray
The artist behind the lens, in his own words. Surrealism, photography, Paris.
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History of the World in 100 Modern Objects

History of the World in 100 Modern Objects

Francesca Hornak
From the paperclip to the smartphone. Every object is a story about us.
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The Copy Book

The Copy Book

D&AD
The greatest ads ever written, curated by D&AD. Advertising as literature.
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Infographica

Infographica

Martin Toseland
The world explained through data visualisation. Every page is a poster.
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No Finish Line

No Finish Line

Nike
Nike told from the inside. Brand storytelling at its most polished.
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Yes is More

Yes is More

Bjarke Ingels
Architecture as optimistic problem-solving, told in comic book form.
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Sneakers Unboxed

Sneakers Unboxed

Design Museum
The Design Museum's exhibition catalogue exploring sneaker design and culture.
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Where's Warhol?

Where's Warhol?

Catherine Ingram
Where's Wally meets pop art. Find Andy across history's greatest art moments.
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Tom Sachs Guide

Tom Sachs Guide

Tom Sachs, Yeju Choi, Howie Kahn
The operating manual for the Tom Sachs universe. 528 pages of creative rigour.
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Tyler Hobbs: Order/Disorder

Tyler Hobbs: Order/Disorder

Tyler Hobbs
Generative art's defining monograph. Code as creative medium.
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Louis Vuitton: Yayoi Kusama

Louis Vuitton: Yayoi Kusama

Jo-Ann Furniss, Yayoi Kusama
When the world's biggest luxury house met the world's most obsessive artist.
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Outlander Magazine

Outlander Magazine

Outlander
The debut issue of a UK style magazine that launched with Bieber and Travis Scott on variant covers.
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72 Magazine

72 Magazine

EE72
Edward Enninful's post-Vogue quarterly. Fashion, art, and culture with editorial authority.
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Graphic Design. 1890-Today

Graphic Design. 1890-Today

Jens Müller
A compact survey of graphic design's greatest hits from 1890 to today.
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