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Between 1924 and 1936, Austrian architect Josef Frank built five holiday homes on the Falsterbo Peninsula in southern Sweden. Conceived as summer houses for friends and relatives of Frank’s Swedish wife, the Falsterbo Villas constitute a key part of Frank’s architectural work and demonstrate concerns at the core of his housing designs. In 2016, Villa […]

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Tokyo is an affectionate city guide, written by Tokyo local Yukiko Tajima. She has listed 500 must-visit places in her truly fascinating hometown, as well as good-to-know facts

Intimate and individual, pencil and paper are a personal touch in a digital age. The pencil is our direct connection between mind and page. We tell the story of an overlooked cultural icon with anecdotes, unexpected facts, and hand-drawn pencil-and-paper illustrations. This book features profiles of pencil crafters, anecdotes about famous writers and their favorite […]

If Andy Warhol could have traveled through time, where would he have gone? Where’s Warhol? gives him his very own time machine, and finds out…Join Andy on a tour through time as he visits the art of the past. From Michelangelo at work on the Sistine Chapel, to Jean-Michel Basquait painting the streets of New […]

In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York City. In a scene popular chiefly among working-class African-Americans and Latinos, Moby – a poor, skinny, white Christian, vegan and teetotaller – looked like he would never make it. By the late nineties, […]

En handbok i konsten att förolämpa med finess! Här förklaras 240 av kapten Haddocks kraftuttryck, från klassiker som anfäkta och anamma, bomber och granater, krabbsaltade tångräkor och malliga mollusker till ovanliga ord och nybildningar som alabasterskalle, ektoplasma, kräkvinspimplare, rullsvansapa och skabbhals. En inspirerande och rikt illustrerad ordbok för alla som vill utöka sitt sitt ordförråd […]

Två unga personer möts på en pub i sydöstra London. Båda är svarta britter, båda har fått stipendium till privatskolor där de inte passade in. Båda är nu konstnärer – han fotograf och hon dansare

Danska Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) var på sin tid vida läst och skandalomsusad för sina skoningslöst ärliga böcker, som skärskådar kroppsliga och känslomässiga mänskliga erfarenheter med en blandning av