A history from early calculating machines to todayThe story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today’s world. From t...więcej »
Shaken, Not StirredThe most complete account of the making of the James Bond series“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the mos...więcej »
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that fl...więcej »
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...więcej »
The making of the Eiffel Tower“The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn&rsq...więcej »
The life’s work of an infographics pioneerFritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by ...więcej »
Playthings From the Past For the PresentUp until the 20th century, children’s play was not a subject that demanded much attention. While objects that entertained children have been pres...więcej »
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...więcej »
Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who liv...więcej »
Ads of the 1970s get funky and socially consciousBoth eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages th...więcej »
The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incis...więcej »
A personal portrait of Paul McCartney by Harry BensonHarry Benson began photographing Paul McCartney in 1964, when the Beatles took America by storm, toured the world, and made their movie de...więcej »
The ultimate travel guide to the USA and CanadaTo travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces with so many riches, from glittering cities to eccentric smal...więcej »
A catalogue raisonné of “the painter’s painter”Manet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that...więcej »
“A woman once rang me up and said, ‘Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.’ I rep...więcej »
Bright, bold pictograms distill male and female experienceImagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in publi...więcej »
A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic environment, as well as fo...więcej »
A decade marked by adventures in futurismPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furnitur...więcej »
Modern by TraditionA survey of Japan’s contemporary architecture sceneThe contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for su...więcej »
One Big Slice of CheesecakePin-up travels the long road from barracks wall to high artSince TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly A...więcej »