New summer books, and re-editioned classics, celebrate art and design heritage
Above Image: Robert Leber’s monograph on Marcel Duchamp, first published in 1959 and out of print for many years, in a vibrant new slipcased edition fromHauser & Wirth.
From a superb new edition of Marcel Duchamp to esteemed design photographer Lisa Romerein’s love letter to Lotusland, summer reads are an opportunity to relax into the past and revel in the present.
Piero Portaluppi: Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde by Lorenzo Pennatti and Patrizia Piccinini (Rizzoli)
Giorgio Morandi: Works Writings Interviews by Karen Wilkin (Poligráfa)
Rose Tarlow: Three Houses by Rose Tarlow (Vendome)
Billy Cotton: Interior & Design Work by Mayer Rus (Rizzoli)
Design as an Attitude by Alice Rawsthorn (JRP | Editions)
Lotusland – Photographs by Lisa Romerein (Rizzoli)
Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists by Alice North, Halsey North, and Louise Allison Cort (Monacelli)
In the Temple of the Self – Margot Th. Brandlhuber, Editor (Hatje Cantz Verlag)