Buchhandlung Walther König

The Offbeat Sari

Explores how the sari has become a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, a form of resistance, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings.

Guhl: Thinking with Your Hands

As a pioneer of modern design, Willy Guhl created world-famous furniture such as the Eternit garden chair or Europe's first plastic shell chair. In the tradition of modernism and against the tradi ...

Ausser Gebrauch: Alltag im Wandel

Vom Messerbänkchen bis zum "Vatermörder", von Geldstrümpfen bis hin zu Aussteuerlisten: "Ausser Gebrauch" zeichnet die Kulturgeschichte von verschwundenen und vergessenen Alltagsgegenständen a ...

Liebes: A Dark, A Light, A Bright

The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century.

William Burges's Great Bookcase

Interweaving art, literature and chemistry, Charlotte Ribeyrol draws on rare archival material to explore the fascinating story of an extraordinary piece of furniture in the context of the Victori ...

Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

This publication is the first to present an insightful overview of Karl Lagerfeld's (1933-2019) artistry across his extraordinary 65-year career as a fashion designer and creative visionary - from ...

Guhl: Denken mit den Händen

Als Pionier des modernen Designs schuf Willy Guhl weltbekannte Möbel wie den Eternit Strandstuhl oder den ersten Kunststoffschalenstuhl Europas. In der Tradition der Moderne und gegen den "völki ...

Garden Futures

Mit "Garden Futures" präsentiert das Vitra Design Museum erstmals eine große Ausstellung zur Geschichte und Zukunft des modernen Gartens. Die Ausstellung wird von dem italienischen Designduo For ...

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

Ai Weiwei is almost unique in the way he glides across disciplinary boundaries: into architecture, design, collecting and curating. This is the first major exhibition - and accompanying catalogu ...

Der Handschuh

Mit "Der Handschuh" zeichnet das Deutsche Ledermuseum die vielfältige Kulturgeschichte eines oft unterschätzten Accessoires nach. Anhand ausgewählter Exponate, von wärmenden Fäustlingen der I ...

Plastic: Remaking our World

Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everyw ...

Female View - engl.

"Female View" focuses on the fashion photography of women. Using exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the photographic image from the 1940s to the present day: from the fash ...

Metalworks - designing and making

Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life

An extraordinary artist and designer: a fresh view of Harry Bertoia's (1915-1978) entire body of work.

Female View - dt.

"Female View" rückt die Modephotographie von Frauen in den Fokus. Dieses Buch zeichnet anhand exemplarischer Positionen den Wandel des photographischen Bildes von den 1940er Jahren bis heute nach ...

Designing Peace

The first book of its kind to explore through a design lens the work being done on peace around the world, on multiple scales.

Mari: Drawings

"Enzo Mari's drawings are the result of his own reflections as a self-taught figure who does not accept the limitations of inherited teachings. Mari cannot stand the bite nor the saddle; like a th ...

Silbertriennale International 2022

50 Jahre nach 50 Jahre Bauhaus

Im Mai 1968 wurde im Württembergischen Kunstverein die Ausstellung "50 Jahre Bauhaus" eröffnet. Die von Herbert Bayer, Ludwig Grote, Hans Maria Wingler und dem damaligen Kunstvereinsdirektor Die ...

Venini: Light 1921-1985

The Italian glass firm Venini, founded in 1921, is famed for its virtuoso uses of Murano glass. Created with a soda-lime "metal" sourced from the beaches of Venice, Murano is unparalleled in quali ...

Burks: Shelter in Place

A multifaceted look at the work of award-winning American industrial designer Stephen Burks.

McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse

McQueen's iconic fashion juxtaposed with historic textiles and works of art, revealing the designer's dynamic approach to storytelling.

Mr&Mrs Clark

The work of Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark: two English creatives whose short but very intense artistic and personal partnership gave rise to an unmistakable style that left its mark in London dur ...