Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, this edition rounds up some of today’s most exceptional and inspiring interiors across six continents. From rusti...
An essential, early portrait of Africa’s wildlife crisis“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vani...
The East German collection of the Wende MuseumFor 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by th...
A journey to unique hotels and hideawaysLatin America is a cradle of ancient civilizations like those of the Incas, Maya and Aztecs, and later became the goal of European explorers and immigr...
Pastel DreamsThe powerful architecture of North KoreaErased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea’s trophy capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch fro...
omadic homes come in all shapes and sizes. They are for the wealthy and the poor, the trendy and the out-of-luck. Changing one’s place of residence is an endeavor that is as old as humanity, ...
Eco-friendly building in the world todayThe most exciting new buildings today are almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discove...
A visual exploration of earth-bound architectureBuilding is one of very few endeavours that are physically connected to the surface of the earth, fixed and enduring. Nevertheless, for centuri...
Hubble’s most magnificent imagesWith investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sen...
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was...
Meet the Renaissance masterBefore reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in th...
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669) stands as one of the most important painters in Western art, but nowhere else do we encounter his inimitable talent more so than in his drawings and etching...
Viva La Sexual Revolution!The 1960s liberate the world’s newsstandsSexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women’s liberation, The Pill, Black Panthe...
Deconstructing perspective with Picasso and peersPioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from Af...
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre ...
Paul Gauguin’s Pacific visions radiate with color and sunshinePaul Gauguin (1848–1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a t...
One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this...
The years between the First and Second World Wars in Germany are famed for their cultural boom. With Berlin as its epicenter, the Weimar Republic was replete with ground-breaking literature, philos...
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a c...
Sex shops offer anything men’s hearts (and other parts) desireIn the late 1960s specialty bookstores selling magazines under the counter were replaced by sex shops, or “adult book...