The H. team is committed to selecting its must-haves that everyone should have on their radar for this Sant Jordi. Come in and read.
You might think that this is a very distant celebration, but that is not the case. This Catalan tradition was born at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Booksellers’ Guild and the Official Book Chamber established this date as International Book Day to commemorate the fact that the writers William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Garcilaso de la Vega died within hours of each other on 23 April. It also coincides with the feast day of Sant Jordi, patron saint of Catalonia.
Nadia Lee Cohen “Women” Pirate Edition
The new version of the fashion photographer’s most iconic book is titled ‘WOMEN, Pirate Edition!’ 女性. As No One Lee Cohen herself has said: “This is the bootleg of my own book and all the important and unimportant details that went into making it. The book acts as a behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest creative minds of our generation, featuring clips from his films, sculptures and some of his most important projects. The book is wrapped in an OBI band designed by Verdy, the artistic mind behind the Tokyo-based brand Girl’s Don’t Cry, along with some of the merchandise from BLACKPINK’s “Born Pink” tour. The book is designed by Charlie Denis. Available here.
Louis Vuitton: A Perfume Atlas
Louis Vuitton has unveiled its new creation A Perfume Atlas. This book is the first to feature Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud, Louis Vuitton’s Master Perfumer. The narrator is Lionel Paillès, an award-winning author with extensive experience in perfumery, and the images are by illustrator Aurore de la Morinerie. In addition, Sébastien Zanella’s photographs offer a journalistic dimension to this journey. A Perfume Atlas is an unusual glimpse into the intricacies of Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud’s savoir-faire, immersing readers in the mysteries of the most sought-after ingredients of the Master Perfumer’s creations and revealing the secrets of their harvesting, extraction, distillation and blending through more than 200 images of watercolour paintings. Available here.
Rapper’s Deluxe – How Hip Hop Made the World
Rapper’s Deluxe is a seminal contribution to the American cultural canon, shedding light on hip hop’s ability to redefine and influence culture through: photographs; art; advertisements; book, magazine, and album covers; film stills; and more. Organized chronologically from the 1970s to the present, the book showcases the people, places, events, objects, clothing, and inspirations that redefined the world as we know it, from fans in fur coats lining up for a Muhammad Ali fight at Madison Square Garden to a legendary party at the Bronx’s ÓBoogie Down” to the South Los Angeles neighborhoods and Atlanta trap houses to the extravagant red carpet looks of the Met Gala. Available here.
David Hockney. My Window
This artist’s book by David Hockney, previously available in an exclusive signed edition, is published in XL Unlimited format. In 120 iPhone and iPad drawings, the artist records his view of the world from the window of his Yorkshire home. Each image captures a fleeting moment and together they paint the passage of time through Hockney’s eyes. Available here.
Ghibli’s Dining Table Children’s Cooking Picture Book – Kiki’s Delivery Service
Every year since 2021, Studio Ghibli has published an official book immortalising on paper the entire hedonistic gastronomic universe it projects on screen. This year, the cult Japanese studio has decided to open the year with a new work that focuses on the recipe book of ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’. As a large part of the film takes place in a bakery, the main focus is on baked goods captured across 64 pages. Some of the recipes featured in the book are Gütiokipänjä’s mountain-shaped bread and round buns, Tombo’s bought biscuits, roasted herring and pumpkin pie, Osono’s milk soup or Madame’s special chocolate cake. Available here.
Supreme 30 Years: T-Shirts 1994-2024 Book
This spring, Supreme will publish 30 Years: T-Shirts 1994-2024. The three-volume monograph catalogues all the T-shirts released in Supreme’s 30-year history. The three volumes will be sold together in a box set. T-shirts have played a pivotal role in Supreme’s history since its inception. The original Supreme shop opened on Lafayette Street in 1994, and some of the first items produced and sold were T-shirts. Supreme has celebrated the opening of new shops, commemorating iconoclasts such as Lou Reed and Kermit the Frog, all on limited edition T-shirts. Available here.
Gucci Prospettive 2: Ancora Milano
The brand’s new creative director, Sabato de Sarno, presents ‘Gucci Prospettive 2: Ancora Milano’, the second volume dedicated to Milan and its creative expressions. Curated by Paola Antonelli – architect, design curator and Milanese based in New York – the book deals with various dimensions and aspects of Milanese design. Through unexpected impressions and combinations of buildings, spaces and precious objects, as well as the people who created them, it evokes the portrait of a city truly devoted to design. Behind the pictorial, photographic and poetic references, Antonelli and De Sarno examine the city as a cradle of design systems, whose layering gives life to the Milanese identity. Available here.
Somewhere – Sam Youkilis
Sam Youkilis has been creating an ongoing archive of photographic works via his phone for six years. Working instinctively, Youkilis’ short, immersive videos capture universal themes of human experience, using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound, anthropological, comprehensive yet incomplete. The first Youkilis publication is divided into chapters and made exclusively from video stills, ‘Somewhere’ scours the Youkilis database for images of everything from the time of day – 7:07 a.m., 12:33 p.m. – to unmade beds, the act of cutting, thresholds, dancing couples and romantic gestures. Available here.
Oriol Maspons Ibiza
This is the new IDEA book with Alex Maspons and Emma Salahi about the work of photographer Oriol Maspons in Ibiza. Oriol Maspons, who is sadly no longer with us, was one of the great Spanish photographers of the 20th century. According to the Museu Nacional D’art De Catalunya, “Oriol Maspons played a crucial role in the renewal of the photographic language in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s”. Maspons worked in many fields: reportage, portraiture, fashion and advertising, but when he wasn’t working he took photos in Ibiza for fun. Playa Salinas, Ku, Amnesia, Pacha, Paula’s Boutique. Everything from the sixties to the nineties and before and after. It might be the best book on Ibiza. Available here.
Archive Sofia Coppola
Archive is Sofia Coppola’s first book spanning the entirety of her unique and influential film career. Built from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts and unpublished behind-the-scenes documentation, it offers a detailed account of her eight films to date; from The Virgin Suicides (1999), through Lost in Translation (2003) and Marie Antoinette (2006), to The Beguiled (2017) and Priscilla (Fall 2023). The highly personal images and texts from Coppola’s archive are accompanied by an extensive interview with celebrated film journalist Lynn Hirschberg. Available here.
Fashion in 2023 book by @stylenotcom
This hardcover book is @stylenotcom’s collection and selection of Instagram posts. This 365 additional pages publication collects the most memorable moments of the fashion industry mixed with the personal experiences and emotions of Beka, the founder of the account. This would be the book about her first big year in fashion: 2023. Available here.
Araki. Tokyo Lucky Hole
The Japanese sex industry in all its glory. In more than 800 photographs, Nobuyoshi Araki captures the erotic spectacles, orgies and outlandish fantasies of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Red Light District. From the underwear-free massage parlours to the fetish corners of commuter trains, this is the last gasp of a bacchanalian era, infused with humour, poetry and interrogative interjections. Available here.
Matisse. Recortes. 40th Ed.
Confined to a wheelchair towards the end of his life, Henri Matisse reinvented himself. This new edition explores the bold cut-outs with which he created a new artistic medium. Discover the story through little-known photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson and F. W. Murnau and texts by surrealist writers Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux and Pierre Reverdy, as well as Matisse’s son-in-law Georges Duthuit and the artist himself. An exhaustive historical contextualisation of his cut-outs and an analysis of his origins, from his trip to Tahiti in 1930 to his last years in Nice. Available here.
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