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Italian artist Lucio Fontana literally tore the art establishment apart. Trained as a sculptor, he combined form and color in radical spatial gestures, most famously his slashed canvases of the 1950s and ’60s. Regarded as the father of midcentury Spatialism, his provocative practice channeled postwar innovation in a pioneering synthesis of art, technology, and science.

Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 96 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-4572-3
Edition: French

Renowned for his distinctive, elongated female nudes, Amedeo Modigliani is a legend of early modernism. His unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and 13th-century painting from his native Italy.

Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 96 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-0365-5
Edition: French

Architect, magazine editor, artist, academic: Gio Ponti’s multifaceted oeuvre blurred boundaries across creative disciplines and lead the evolution of modern design in Italy. Filled with archival images, a timeline, and map of his Milanese buildings, this dedicated introduction traces Ponti’s most celebrated works and provides an extensive overview of the master designer’s sublime career.

Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 96 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-6438-0
Edition: French

With his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner is responsible for some of the most original buildings of the 20th century. This introductory book surveys his key works and his iconic aesthetic in an age of space-age technology, economic growth, and affluence.

Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 96 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-4406-1
Edition: French

Witness unapologetic portraits and precision worthy of a laboratory in this exploration into the oeuvre of renowned figurative painter Lucian Freud. A master of the human form who applied the same frank style and psychological rigor to sitters as varied as the Queen, Kate Moss, and an obese and naked job center supervisor. Direct and disarming, Freud’s portraiture penetrates beneath flaws and folds of the flesh to reveal what lies within.

Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 96 pages

Discover the juiciest morsels of the Big Apple and beyond with this new, pocket-sized city guide in TASCHEN’s best-selling 36 Hours series with The New York Times. From Broadway’s bright lights to the bucolic bliss of the Hamptons, each expert itinerary promises to transform 36 hours into a compact but memorable adventure.

Flexicover, 13.7 x 19.5 cm, 80 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-4043-8
Edition: French

Transform each LA weekend into an adventure with this new, pocket-sized city guide in TASCHEN’s best-selling travel series with The New York Times. Whether you fancy swinging through glamorous night spots or chasing the sunset in Malibu, this trusty travelogue is packed full of perfect itineraries in the City of Angels and beyond.

Flexicover, 13.7 x 19.5 cm, 80 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-4040-7
Edition: French

A new edition of the Alice Springs and Helmut Newton classic, Us and Them. An ode to partnership as much as art, this revealing collection alternates the gaze between the couple’s tender internal world and the glamorous encounters of their social and professional milieu, from Catherine Deneuve to Gianni Versace.

Hardcover, 23 x 27 cm, 200 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-2467-4
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

Once synonymous with eyesore highway bridges and crumbling, unloved walls, concrete has been reborn as adventurous and sexy. This two-volume book considers the elaborate feats and prodigious engineering of contemporary concrete architecture, from stars such as Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron, to fresh new studios like the Russian SPEECH.

Hardcover, 2 vols. in slipcase, 24 x 30.5 cm, 730 pages

The explosive third volume in the trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). From the most famous faces to the anonymous and marginalized, the collection bursts with LaChapelle’s trademark baroque excess and his inversion of the consumption he appears to celebrate, with apocalyptic overtones alongside visual and thematic references to the Renaissance, The Bible, pornography, and globalized pop culture.

Hardcover, 25.9 x 33 cm, 352 pages

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

In 2007, be-poles created an editorial department with a collection of travel notebooks entitled Portraits de Villes. Four cities, four photographers, four portraits. The beginning of a long voyage. A precious one. Adhering to its own typographic culture which combines elegance and simplicity, equilibrium and homothety, precision in details and proportions, be-poles is adding its contribution to the book of photographs.

Beginning as a highly-collectible and highly-designed reference book, LEBOOK was a limited edition guide to the creative community in Paris. Invented by Veronique Kolasa in 1982, as a private resource for her best creative friends, LEBOOK quickly became “The Bible of the Image Industries.”

As the international reference for information and inspiration in the luxury space over the past three decades, LEBOOK has a network of 50,000+ creatives at brands and advertising agencies – all involved in marketing, image-making, and media buying.

The first edition of LEBOOK New York was released in 1995, in 1999 LEBOOK London, LEBOOK Berlin in 2009 for Germany and Eastern Europe.  LEBOOK West Coast was launched to much demand in 2010.