Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired żeby Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los...
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...
Exploring rye's history, unique chemistry and centuries-old baking methods, The Rye Baker is the definitive resource for professional and home bakers alike.
"Intelligent, engaging, inquiring, instructive, and joyous: as befits its subtitle, this is destined, deservedly, to become a truly iconic book." Nigella Lawson Have you ever marvelled at a...
Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and...
Spanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with...
The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is,...
Para sus contemporáneos de la Venecia de finales del siglo XVI, El Greco (1541-1614) era un hombre a contracorriente, un artista innato dotado de un talento extraordinario empecinado en seguir su...
Piet Mondrian represented an artist not only of absolute modernity, but also of great integrity. He remains one of the most distinctive practitioners in all of modern art, the star of exhibitions...
From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a...
Con sus hombres con bombín flotando en el cielo o la pintura de una pipa sobre la leyenda «Esto no es una pipa», René Magritte (1898-1967) creó una caja de resonancia de objetos e imágenes, nombres...
Inspired żeby the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 żeby Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino...
Henri Rousseau behauptete, er habe "keinen Lehrmeister außer der Natur". Erst in seinen späten Vierzigern begann der Zollbeamte im Ruhestand zu malen. Seine naiv anmutenden Gemälde...
After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) found his métier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure...
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own...
Celebrated Los Angeles bartender Christiaan R llich approaches a drink the way a master chef approaches a dish: he draws on high-quality seasonal ingredients to create cocktails for every...
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau's bright, bold...
Often imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. With its unprecedented precision and...
Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the...
Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming...
Jim Lahey's 'breathtaking, miraculous, no-work, no-knead bread' ("Vogue") has revolutionised the food world. Inspired aby the ancient art of Italian bread making, he developed...
Simple rice cakes drenched in a spicy sauce. Bulgogi sliders. A scallion pancake (pajeon) the New York Times calls "the essential taste of Korean cuisine." For years Hooni Kim's food...
The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist...