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‘Holiday Exotica’ is a visual celebration of the early days of bold and beautiful vacation designNo need to pack your bags to experience these destinations; Jonny Trunk’s new compilation of print ephemera celebrates the art of holiday graphics
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From Kendrick Lamar to Lou Reed: a new book reveals David Bowie’s favourite music‘David Bowie: Music Lover’, published by ACC Art Books, highlights more than 100 of Bowie’s favourite musical artists
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‘Wild Comfort’ is a coffee-table tome that’s designed to give you upscale cabin envy‘Wild Comfort: Contemporary Homes in the Wilderness’ assembles 30 of the finest recent remotely sited private dwellings, exploring architectural solutions that are dovetailed into their surroundings
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Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie turns ten. Join the celebrationsThe Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron is about to mark its tenth anniversary and reveals a festive programme, including a celebratory concert, which you can watch live, below, on 1 September 2026 at 8pm (CEST)
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An impressive two-volume tome is the ultimate companion to George Lucas’ new LA museumTaschen takes the reins of the monograph accompanying the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art monograph. We take a look inside
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Documenting Japan’s disappearing modernist architectureNaomi Pollock's new book, 'Vanishing Japan, ' chronicles the country’s many demolished modernist works, focusing on buildings that have succumbed to change in the last quarter century. The book provides a fascinating portrait of lost architecture
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Relive raving in the 1990s, and the ‘sense that living life differently was actually possible’Rave culture's ‘Euro summer’ golden age is captured in a new photobook, ‘Never Alone: 1997–2004 Raving in Europe’; here, its photographers look back
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Britain’s motorway infrastructure serves as subject matter for artist Jen Orpin’s monographThe Modernist Society’s new book ‘The Architecture of Connection’ finds melancholic beauty in the prosaic architecture of the motorway system, as chronicled with care by painter Jen Orpin
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The Land Rover as a design icon – a new monograph explores its cultural impact and aspirational reachIf you want to up sticks and immerse yourself in hard-to-reach wilderness, all the while retaining a richly aesthetic approach to life, there’s only one answer: a converted Land Rover Defender
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Seven beautiful designer monographs on the makers who defined a centuryFrom Charles and Ray Eames to Dieter Rams, these landmark volumes chart the visionaries who shaped modern design – and their ideas that still resonate today
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A new monograph spotlights Miyako Ishiuchi, photographer of the belongings of Frida Kahlo and Hiroshima victims‘Ishiuchi Miyako: Traces’ offers the most comprehensive account yet of the photographer – a visual archivist of memory and loss
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These are the fashion books to add to your summer reading listAs chosen by the Wallpaper* style team, a transporting assortment of new releases that will inform and inspire this summer – from an encyclopedic rundown of Ralph Lauren shows to a brilliant Virgil Abloh biography
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Inside the design of a Persephone bookPersephone books are distinctive for their dove grey covers and colourful endpapers. We go behind the design
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15 graphic design books every visual culture enthusiast should ownWhether you’re a graphic designer or a visual communication obsessive, explore our library of idiosyncratic, creativity-expanding books
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Beauty books for experimental makeup, wellness and moreBeautify your bookshelf with these eye-catching titles covering makeup, hair, fragrance and more
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Legendary London bookshop Claire de Rouen opens a new Shoreditch spaceInside the new outpost, designed as a hub for London's established and emerging artists to find inspiration and share ideas.
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15 interior design books to inspire your shelves and your spacesDiscover the Wallpaper editor's favourite interior design books, bringing together striking visual works that both inspire and illuminate
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‘Beat Gems’ is a new book about the cultural impact and evolution of the drum machineNew from Bjooks, ‘Beat Gems’ delves into the sounds, shapes and distinctive timbres of more than 60 iconic and cult examples of the modern drum machine
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A new book explores how Eddie Plein’s grills defined a cultural moment in hip-hop‘Mouth Full of Golds’ traces Eddie Plein's mastery of a golden era of dentistry, and is re-released ahead of a forthcoming documentary film
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These eight design history books will teach you all you need to know about modernism and beyondFrom sweeping surveys of 500 years of design to focused studies of colour in the 20th century, these landmark volumes will deepen your visual knowledge
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This enchanting children’s book explores girlhood with a host of gorgeously illustrated nighttime creaturesIn 'Oralee: A Field Guide to a Young Human Who Learns to Glow in the Dark', artist Clare Crespo translates a fascination with owls into a meditation on growing up
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New book, 'Soviet Scientific Institutes', captures the afterlife of a society dedicated to discoveryPhotographer Eric Lusito’s new monograph captures the strange experimental facilities and laboratories scattered across the countries left behind by the USSR
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Photographer Joel Meyerowitz on reframing some of art history’s most famous props: ‘Morandi’s Objects’In his newly updated book, 'Morandi's Objects. The Complete Archive of Casa Morandi', legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz brings a practised eye to objects that inspired a master of still life
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The Art of the Book celebrates Thames & Hudson’s 75 years of creative publishing'The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson' is a visual history of the publisher’s greatest hits across art, architecture, graphics, branding and more
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Find inspiration, aspiration and sage advice in the Steve Jobs Archive's ‘Letters to a Young Creator’Some of the greatest modern minds come together to provide their insights into the creative process in this new publication
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Two new books explore different sides of the post-industrial landscape – real and virtual‘The Edge of Ruin’ and ‘Photography, Video Game, Landscape’ offer up two viewpoints on modern landscape photography, both shaped by technology
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The ultimate monograph for the ultimate superyacht builder: Feadship by AssoulineCast yourself away with this celebration of Dutch shipyard Feadship, a pioneering creator of unique superyachts
