Crossing the Threshold
Featuring essays, interviews and over 400 images, ‘Spirit Worlds. The Library of Esoterica’ steps through darkened doorways and into the labyrinths that lead to kingdoms of the afterlife and to communion with denizens of dimensions, just beyond our own.
“Spirit Worlds is a work of art in itself.” - OM Yoga Magazine
It is available on TASCHEN.com and in store.
2. Soul Hunter, 2015 Mariusz Lewandowski
4. Jacob’s Ladder,1800–03, William Blake Bridgeman Images
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A facsimile of ‘Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei’, Fausto and Felice Niccolini’s extraordinary Pompeii publication
The Niccolinis’ goal was to illustrate all aspects of life in the antique city. Their publication presented over 400 color plates providing not only views, maps, and groundplans of the city and its public buildings, but also offered unprecedented access to Pompeii’s private residences.
Explore the remarkable influence exerted by Pompeian art on the visual arts, in ‘Fausto & Felice Niccolini. Houses and Monuments of Pompeii. 45th Ed.’ Which you can find on TASCHEN.com.
Pasticcio of Pompeian Motifs, Anonymous
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Rising from the Ashes
When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius.
Now available in our 45th Edition format, this volume reveals maps and ground plans of Pompeii and intimate everyday objects. ‘Fausto & Felice Niccolini. Houses and Monuments of Pompeii. 45th Ed.’ is available on TASCHEN.com and in store.
2. View of the Temple of Isis from the east
4. Triclinium (9), front part – Wall decoration, late 3rd/early 4th style: central scene with the wounded Aeneas being attended by a doctor in the company of his son Ascanius and his mother Venus
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Meet Francis Kéré
Francis Kéré is a Burkinabè architect and the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. For Kéré, architecture is an engine of shared learning and exchange, made collectively rather than imposed from above. The architect is never the star, but a facilitator of common purpose. His designs are rooted in vernacular knowledge and non-elitist values yet fully engaged with the urgent realities of our time, from climate change and overpopulation to the fragile infrastructures of young democracies.
Reading ‘Francis Kéré. Building Stories’ feels like looking into Kéré’s own notebook, with his annotations scribbled alongside the work. You can find it on TASCHEN.com and in store.
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An intimate first-person account of Francis Kéré’s most influential architectural works
In this new title, Kéré’s own voice moves effortlessly between poetry and pragmatism. From the technicalities of cutting bricks on site to the political and environmental forces shaping his designs, he delights in both hands-on craft and big thinking.
This signed and numbered Art Edition come with a custom-made, unfired compressed earth block, made with a blend of clays and sand sourced between Germany and Belgium, and stabilized with 8% cement. Each Building Brick is signed and numbered by the architect.
‘Francis Kéré. Building Stories. Art Edition No. 1–100, ‘Building Brick’’ is available to order on TASCHEN.com.
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Architecture that Speaks
Experience Pritzker Prize winner Francis Kéré’s inspiring, first-hand perspective on his creative world.
A rich selection of unseen sketches, photos, and architectural drawings accompanies original stories of 26 projects, from the Primary School in Gando, Burkina Faso, to the Las Vegas Art Museum, revealing his experimental, communal, and inventive approach.
‘Francis Kéré. Building Stories’ is available on TASCHEN.com and in store.
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