Meticulously crafted, this book marks the 20th anniversary of Tambour, Louis Vuitton’s line of modern luxury watches. Launched in 2002, the first Tambour model became an instant classic, with its drum-shaped case, superb Swiss engineering and innovative, uncompromising aesthetic.

Featuring works from Gae Aulenti, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Christopher Nemeth, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Virgil Abloh. With pictures from Annie Leibovitz, Jean Larivière, Paolo Roversi, Eric Maillet, Martin Parr, Guido Mocafico, Erwan Frotin, David Sims, Jacob Sutton, Kenta Cobayashi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Bruno Aveillan, Piotr Stoklosa, Daniel Jackson and and an exclusive photographic series of the Tambour watch collection by Maxime Guyon.

Essays by journalist and luxury watch expert Fabienne Reybaud explore the creative origins of the Tambour design and the history of Louis Vuitton watches, along with the precision work of the Geneva watchmakers behind the brand’s reputation for excellence. A catalogue raisonné of Tambour models and insights from leading watch connoisseurs make this a useful resource for collectors. This is a visually striking and luxuriously crafted book, illustrated with custom photography and many never-before-seen images from the Louis Vuitton archives. With more than 400 illustrations, this book is a beautiful object in its own right, for all lovers of luxury accessories and the Louis Vuitton lifestyle.

Since their debut in 2013, Palace’s unconventional descriptors—which often have little or nothing to do with the product being described—have earned a cult following, with readers hooked on every line.
Collected here for the first time and printed as they appear online—a few lines set in all caps, formatted as a series of bullet points—the more than 3,000 descriptions are organised into 22 tongue-in-cheek categories, including Anatomy, Animals, Etiquette, Philanthropy, Romance and Travel. The text is interspersed with shots of highly coveted Palace products and chapter openers feature candid, behind-the-scenes images from Palace’s archive.
At once jokey toilet book and earnest coffee-table opus, this funny and honest volume serves as an essential record of an online phenomenon.

A virtual exhibition created collectively with all finalists of the 2021 Swiss Design Awards.

For its 2021 edition, the Swiss Design Awards’ website works as a virtual exhibition which has been co-created alongside all the finalists. As the sanitary crisis didn’t offer the guarantee to held an event that year, we believed this was an opportunity not to replace what can’t happen physically, but to finally invent new forms of exhibiting using online tools, exploring what a digital show can be: not only in its aesthetics, but also in the way it is created – collectively.

Each finalist created a custom space with red metaballs to exhibit their work. Printed and digital medias playfully interact with blobby aesthetics oscillating between 2D and 3D worlds. A teasing campaign with social media assets accompanies the website’s launch.

The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Swiss artist Raphael Hefti is published on the occasion of his major solo exhibition in 2020 at Kunsthalle Basel. With a career spanning over a decade, Hefti is celebrated for upending and disrupting—seemingly ordinary—industrial and post-industrial processes. Hefti’s intimate encounters with materials take form in colossal sculptures, performances that (at times) flirt with the brink of disaster, and sprawling public interventions. Often operating under the light of Murphy’s Law, he unveils everyday things so well hidden in plain sight (and turns the principles of minimalism on their head).

This richly illustrated volume captures the artist‘s complete body of work through his process of making in factories across Europe to their installation in museums and galleries. With contributions from a diverse cast of authors—a philosopher, a science-fiction writer, and an art historian among others—Hefti’s material transformations come to life in saturated words and images that tell stories of error, risk and wonder (from the scale of the particle to the universe at large).

Every copy of this book is unique. The distribution of pigments is the result of their manipulation during screen printing, and no two covers are alike. Printed by the artist and Maximage in collaboration with Atelier für Siebdruck, Lorenz Boegli, Müntschemier, CH.

This immersive visual survey offers an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes exploration into Nike’s ethos-driven design formula, placing industry-defining innovations and globally recognized products alongside previously unpublished designs, prototypes, insider stories, and more.

The book’s extraordinary design also nods to its contents. The striking cover features overlapping silkscreened layers of Nike’s proprietary Volt yellow and Hyperpunch pink colors overlaying an image of world-champion marathoner Eliud Kipchoge printed in a half-tone dot pattern. The book’s spine, visible through the clear jacket, showcases a series of colored tabs that extend from its interior pages and which are referenced in the book’s bonus chapter, “Crafting Color.” Combining 500 color illustrations with stories, insights, knowledge, passion, and history shared by Nike’s remarkable team, Nike: Better is Temporary will serve as a manual of innovation and inspiration for generations to come.

Awarded by the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020”.