Powerhouse
The Life and Work of Architect Judith Chafee
Powerhouse is the first book on the singular life and career of American architect Judith Chafee (1932-1998). Chafee was ...
Making Books
A Guide to Creating Handcrafted Books
From the London Centre for Books Arts, the internationally recognized, artistrun, open-access studio at the forefront of ...
Build It Yourself
Weekend Projects for the Garden
Are you into gardening, DIY, or organic living? Looking to branch into woodworking? Build It Yourself: Weekend Projects ...
Bernard Trainor
Ground Studio Landscapes
Bernard Trainor's newest book celebrates the wild and elemental landscapes of California, from the craggy coasts of Big ...
A2Z+
Alphabets & Signs
Now in its fourth iteration, revised and dramatically expanded with over 100 new pages, Julian Rothenstein's classic com ...
Letters to a Young Farmer
On Food, Farming, and Our Future
Letters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, a ...
The Writing Deck
52 Prompts for Putting Pen to Paper
Jump-start writing projects with this colorful card deck of engaging prompts. Whether retelling a familiar story from a ...
In the City
Drawings by Nigel Peake
For the follow up to In the Wilds, his much-loved illustrated ode to rural life, Nigel Peake swaps the bucolic Irish cou ...
The Wood Carver's Dozen
A Collection of 12 Beautiful Projects for Beginners
If you want to join the woodworking and carving renaissance, The Wood Carver's Dozen is the perfect starting point. An i ...
Inside the Rainbow
Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times
Inside the Rainbow reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet-era picture books from the 1920s ...
Analog Photography
Reference Manual for Shooting Film
Attracted by the image quality, the tactile joy of a finely made camera, and the affordable prices of vintage equipment, ...
People Kissing
A Century of Photographs
Love is in the air as Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey take on humankind's oldestĄpastime: kissing. In racy candids, humor ...
Fries!
An Illustrated History of the World's Favorite Food
Imagine a plate of crisp, golden, salted fries, and you'll know why this is the world's favorite food.Who better to writ ...
Canadian Modern Architecture
A Fifty Year Retrospective, from 1967 to the Present
Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and ...
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as ...
Paul Rand
Inspiration and Process in Design
Best-known for his corporate brand logos and art direction, Paul Rand (1914-1986) transformed commercial art from craft ...
Raptors
Portraits of Birds of Prey
This delightful and dramatic collection of portraits reveals birds of prey as we never experience them: intimate and up ...
Kitchen Lithography
Hand Printing at Home
When printmakers Laura Sofie Hantke and Lucas Grassmann graduated from university, they found themselves without the lux ...
America's Doll House
The Miniature World of Faith Bradford
From the Star-Spangled Banner flag to Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American ...
50 Things to Do with a Penknife
Whether you're a beginner or seasoned whittler, this practical guide to the age old yet newly popular art of whittling w ...
War Plan Red
The United States' Secret Plan to Invade Canada, and Canada's Secret Plan to Invade The United States
It's known as the world's friendliest border. Five thousand miles of unfenced, unwalled international coexistence and a ...
One-Track Mind
Drawing the New York Subway
Winner, 2019 New York City Book Award For decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York Cit ...
The Sketchbook Project World Tour
Destined to go down as one of the era's most astonishing global art projects, the Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Proj ...
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
Visualizing Black America
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activ ...
The Musician Says
The Musician Says is an all-access backstage pass to the world of singers, songwriters, composers, and instrumentalists- ...
The Architecture of Trees
The Architecture of Trees is a legendary and unsurpassed botanical masterwork. This lavish large-format volume features ...
The Gardener Says
Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
The Gardener Says invites readers to a festive garden party where guests ranging from Gertrude Jekyll and Henry David Th ...
Welcome to Marwencol
In April 2000, Mark Hogancamp was beaten and left for dead outside a bar in his hometown of Kingston, NY. Waking from a ...
Site
Marmol Radziner in the Landscape
The spectacular houses of Marmol Radziner merge interior and exterior life as they engage the built and natural environm ...
The Chef Says
Clean plates don t lie.---Dan BarberGreat chefs are neither self-effacing nor meek. There's no room for manners in the p ...
50 Things to See in the Sky
This hip and handy guide helps you learn the science behind blue skies, sun dogs, and the solar eclipse, and shows you h ...
The Blind Photographer
The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a ...
Typographic Knitting
From Pixel to Pattern
Learn to knit a variety of typefaces modeled on digital designs by well-known type foundries including Emigre, Lineto, a ...
The Disappearance of Darkness
Photography at the End of the Analog Era
Over the past decade, photographer Robert Burley has traveled the world documenting the abandonment and destruction of f ...
Type and Color
How to Design and Use Multicolored Typefaces
To create his award-winning multicolored typefaces, Mark van Wageningen first returned to the past for his research: woo ...
Through Darkness to Light
Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
They left in the middle of the night often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 183 ...
Sacred Ground
The Cemeteries of New Orleans
Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates ...
Presenting Shakespeare
1,100 Posters from Around the World
A skull held aloft, a lovesick donkey, a bloodied dagger: these familiar icons are instantly recognizable shorthand for ...
The Inventor Says
Quotes, Quips and Words of Wisdom
The sixth in our popular Words of Wisdom series, The Inventor Says invites readers to a gathering of history's most bril ...
Artists Unframed
Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen sna ...
Joan Miro: I Work Like a Gardener
In 1958, artist Joan Miro and critic Yvon Taillandier sat down for an in-depth discussion on Miro's life and work. Their ...
Iowa State Fair
Country Comes to Town
More than 150 years old and still going strong, the Iowa State Fair is an American institution that was recently selecte ...
The Art and Craft of Geometric Origami
With the increasing popular interest in mindfulness, and seeking quiet in the tumult of modern life, origami, the centur ...
Finding Home
Shelter Dogs and Their Stories
Bold, retiring, serious, sparkling, quirky, or lovable the dogs in Traer Scott's remarkable photographs regard us with ...
People Fishing
Although people have fished for food since the dawn of time, fishing today is one of the most popular pastimes in the wo ...
More Scenes from the Rural Life
Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. Since 19 ...
The Big Cloud
Our culture is addicted to weather: hourly forecasts, apps, radio, TV channels, alerts, warnings, and watches. And under ...
More Than Words
Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Our widely celebrated compendium of illustrated letters is now available in paperback. Drawn from the largest repository ...
Posters for Change
Tear, Paste, Protest
The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of ...
The Toaster Project
Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-l ...
Coffee Lids
Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture
If you're one of the 200 million Americans who drink coffee every day, you may have marveled at the ubiquitous plastic c ...
The Smith Tapes
Between 1969 and 1972, Village Voice "Scenes" columnist, WPLJ FM radio host, and cult figure Howard Smith got to the hea ...
The Writer Says
The seventh in our popular Words of Wisdom series, The Writer SaysĄsummons readers to an intimate gathering of novelists ...
The Filmmaker Says
"No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of ...
Monument Man
The Life & Art of Daniel Chester French
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, ...
People Knitting
People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consumi ...
Artful Cats
Discoveries from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Cats, cats, and more cats! Expressive or aloof, affectionate or enigmatic, cats have complicated characters that make th ...
The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons
By the World's Greatest Cartoonists
This exuberant collection of cartoons is an enthusiastic love letter to books and bookstores. The cartoons celebrate and ...
Goat Man
How I Took a Holiday from Being Human
The dazzling success of The Toaster Project, including TV appearances and an international book tour, leaves Thomas Thwa ...
Single-Handedly
Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently ...
The Bike Deconstructed
A Grand Tour of the Modern Bicycle
On first glance, bicycles look pretty straightforward. And yet, even today's most stripped down bicycles can feature as ...
Color for Architects
As far back as the earliest Greek temples, color has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least und ...
The Electric Pencil
Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3
This bookd tells the remarkable story of Edward Deeds, an "outsider" artist who spent most of his adult life inside Miss ...
The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle
The Bauhaus and Design Theory
The Bauhaus, the legendary school in Dessau, Germany, transformed architecture and design around the world. This book br ...
The Architect Says
If there's anything architects like doing more than designing buildings, it's talking about architecture. Whether musing ...
An Atlas of Geographical Wonders
From Mountaintops to Riverbeds
This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mo ...
Psychobook
Games, Tests, Questionnaires, Histories
Who knew a trip to the therapist could be so much fun, even aesthetically rewarding? Beyond sharing feelings or complain ...
The Wild Dyer
A Maker's Guide to Natural Dyes with Projects to Create and Stitch
Fabrics colored with natural dyes have a beauty and subtlety all of their own. Onion and avocado skins, chamomile and bi ...
Lingerie
Being comfortable in your clothes is important, but how you feel underneath them may matter even more. Slipping on linge ...
Vineyards
Photographs by Fred Lyon
As a budding photographer and oenophile in the 1940s, Fred Lyon surveyed the wine photography of the day and thought, "I ...
You Are Here: NYC
Mapping the Soul of the City
Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilitie ...
Everyone's a Critic
The Ultimate Cartoon Book
We are all critics now. From social media "likes" to reviews on Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes, we're constantly asked to give ...
Lists
To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
From the weekly shopping list to the Ten Commandments, our lives are shaped by lists. Whether dashed off as a quick remi ...
Where Today Meets Tomorrow
Eero Saarinen and the General Motors Technical Center
Long before Microsoft or Apple occupied their legendary corporate campuses, there was the General Motors Technical Cente ...
The Lovings
An Intimate Portrait
The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings pres ...
Paul Rudolph
Inspiration and Process in Architecture
Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) authored some of Modernism's most powerful designs and served as an influential educator while ...
Balancing Acts
Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers
There are few jobs more rarefied or as physically and mentally demanding as prima ballerina. And yet, despite very real ...
Compression
Steven Holl celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark book Anchoring with Compression, a collection of thirty ...
Botanical Sketchbooks
Recording the world of plant and animal life and documenting the strange beauty of the natural world have been human pas ...
The Designer Says
Whether musing about the creative process, the merits of failure and criticism, or the challenges of keeping the studio ...
LaPorte, Indiana
Found magazine editor Jason Bitner has made it a habit of picking up after us, walking down the back alleys of our lives ...
Blackstock's Collections
The Drawings of an Artistic Savant
Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings,vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious ...
The Complete Engraver
A Guide to Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and the Etiquette and History of Social Stationery
In this age of emails, texts, and instant messages, receiving a letter has become a rare treat. Engraved stationery can ...
Shoes
Shoes celebrates the world's most beautifully made footwear from hand crafted bespoke pieces to the most sought after co ...
The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide
How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures
Modern living isn't easy. It often seems to require some know-how our parents didn't pass on, or a special tool. Happily ...
A Colorful Life
Gere Kavanaugh, Designer
The designer Gere Kavanaugh is an irrepressible force of nature who epitomized the craft and folk vibe of the '60s and ' ...
