The second installment of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series focuses on the Top 10 Books of 2011, including photo-heavy coffee table books, research tomes and literature. From the history of menswear staples to Japanese art to modernist architecture to the appreciation of the well shaped derrière, there were a multitude of books published covering […]

Walt Disney, known for his perennial thoughts of dreaming, innovation and enjoying life like a kid (as well as some alleged racism), was a fan of the original Airline Chair. So much so that he personally selected the Airline when he built his original Burbank animation studio in the late 1930s. Now Los Angeles designer […]

The Modernist is another edition to Gestalten’s collected body of books that “document and anticipate vital movements in design, illustration, architecture, and typography as well as urban and contemporary design.” The book is a collection of work in contemporary graphic design and illustration that is heavily influenced by classic modernism, usually created with a limited […]

Although legendary Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was originally given sole credit for designing the Barcelona Chair — one of the most famous and timeless icons of modernist furniture — only recently has co-credit been given to his longtime partner, the architect/designer Lilly Reich. Designed specifically for the German Pavilion in the 1929 […]

Taschen has collected all the great work architect Richard Neutra has done in this country — including nearly 300 private homes, schools and public buildings — and compiled them into a 464-page hardcover tome aptly titled Neutra Complete Works. Born in Vienna, Neutra settled in the US in the early 1920s after initially studying under […]

Visual Acoustics is a tribute to a great artist, a world-renowned photographer who managed to define Los Angeles architecture through his lens. Directed by Eric Bricker and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman, the documentary film follows the career of one of the most famous architectural photographers of all time, Julius Shulman. Working with such upper […]

Taschen’s golden book of the month is, in their words, “an unprecedented architecture encyclopedia.” The A-Z of Modern Architecture is a 2-volume, hardcover immersive experience into the architectural world of modernism. What makes this series different is its focus on the designers as opposed to the structures themselves. The books features works from the present […]