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Powerhouse Company
2023 || Hardcover || Mimi Zeiger e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
With 18 projects ranging from a chair to high-rise buildings, this book offers a cross section of the recent work of Powerhouse Company, which is based in Rotterdam, Munich, and Oslo.These projects are episodes in the success story of an architectural office that only completed its first building, a villa, in 2007. In three essays, Mimi Zeiger, Hans Ibelings, and Gay Gassmann share their insights on the work and the motivations of Powerhouse Company. Episodes traces how Powerhouse Company’s...
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Attitudes
MVRDV
2023 || Hardcover || Tim Abrahams e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
Co-edited by MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs and MVRDV partner Jan Knikker, this book presents twenty-five recently completed projects in Europe, North America, and Asia. Among them are several that show the potentials of reuse and transformation, such as 'High Profile', a lamp made from leftover metal profiles, or 'Seoullo 7017', the transformation of an elevated highway in Seoul into an urban park. Many of the projects also have a distinct public dimension, welcoming people in, around...
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De Vlaamse Meesters
Van Eyck tot Bruegel
2023 || Hardcover || Matthias Depoorter || Idea Books B.V.
De Vlaamse meesters. Van Eyck tot Bruegel overspant bijna anderhalve eeuw schilderkunst, van omstreeks 1430 tot het overlijden van Pieter Bruegel de Oude in 1569. In die tijdspanne kwam de schilderkunst in de Nederlanden tot een ongekende bloei. Dit rijkelijk geïllustreerde boek biedt een representatief overzicht van de belangrijkste en invloedrijkste schilders uit die periode en van alle schildergenres die in deze regio tot ontwikkeling kwamen of vernieuwing doormaakten. De auteur gaat op ...
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De Best Verzorgde Boeken | The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022
2023 || Paperback || Akiko Wakabayashi || Idea Books B.V.
The catalogue The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 was designed by Akiko Wakabayashi, who has given form to the jury report on the 33 Best Dutch Book Designs of 2022. Alongside an introduction discussing developments and trends from the past year, the catalogue contains an ode to the book written by artist Natasja Kensmil. The catalogue is completed by a detailed technical specification of each book. Each year, the selection is exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and a number of other ven...
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Cycladic Blues
Marlene Dumas
2023 || Paperback || Marlene Dumas e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
This cahier is a visual sketchbook for an exhibition by Marlene Dumas at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum's collection. Although the exhibition has been postponed towards 2025, this anticipatory publication already arose from Dumas' enthusiasm and affection for this combination. The enigmatic Cycladic antiquities, dating from 3000-2000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas' contemporary works.
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Small Prints
Karel Martens
2023 || Paperback || Karel Martens || Idea Books B.V.
This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size. Textual elements accent the various abstract shapes and repetitions on almost every page. ‘Small Prints’ is available in two different cover versions, which itself is the result of a printing experiment. By printing the content...
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Het Brussel van Horta
2023 || Paperback || Françoise Aubry || Idea Books B.V.
In 2023 viert Brussel, en bij uitbreiding het hele land, het jaar van de art nouveau. Wie vertegenwoordigt deze revolutionaire stijl in ons land beter dan de beroemde architect Victor Horta? Deze handige gids loodst u langs zijn creaties in Brussel, van openbare gebouwen tot privéwoningen en monumenten, allen opgetrokken in art nouveau-stijl. Victor Horta wordt in 1861 in Gent geboren en verricht baanbrekend werk met zijn architectuur: denk aan de typische decoratieve vormen, de experimentel...
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Leen Voet
For All the Cats in the World
2023 || Hardcover || Martin Germann e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
Leen Voet verwerkt elementen uit visuele en literaire bronnen met subtiele humor in schilderijen, installaties en tekeningen, die ze systematisch in reeksen samenbrengt. Vanuit een voyeuristische blik op het leven, de schilderkunst en het kunstenaarschap, reflecteert Voet over stereotypen, het lokale, de autonomie van het individu en over oorsprong en herkomst. Haar stijl balanceert op de grens van het picturale en wordt gekenmerkt door levendige kleuren, afgelijnde kleurvlakken en geometrisc...
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Great Temptations
The seduction of painting
2023 || Paperback || Dominic van den Boogerd || Idea Books B.V.
"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.
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Every day is a new day 2024
Karel Martens
2023 || Paperback || Karel Martens || Idea Books B.V.
A tear-off calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!