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Book Review | La Maison de Verre
Literature | Published on September 23, 2010
La Maison de Verre (literally ‘The House of Glass’) is a modernist masterpiece that almost nobody has ever seen. Here, for the first time in English, is it’s inside story.
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Book Review | The Wirtz Private Garden
Literature, Staff Picks | Published on September 3, 2010
“This garden is made for my camera” says Marco Valdivia. Unlike the Wirtzes’ commissioned gardens, this former kitchen garden was never conceived as a formal composition: a complete work of art. Rather, it is a working nursery in active use, a laboratory for continuous experimentation, in which plants are moved, transferred to other plots or to gardens in progress elsewhere.
Few landscape designers are more admired than Belgium’s Jacques Wirtz, as seen with the huge success of The Wirtz Gardens, published in the fall of 2004. The Wirtz Gardens surveyed 57 private and public gardens designed by Wirtz, many in collaboration with his two sons, Martin and Peter, in locations spanning the globe. Like the veteran art dealer whose personal collection one imagines to be stupendous, the volume raised the question of what Wirtz’s own garden looked like.
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Taschen | Passion in Print
In Store, Literature | Published on August 16, 2010
It all began with a young boy, Benedikt Taschen(above), selling his paintings of vampires on the sidewalks of Germany in 1970. Ten years later, through passion for images, words, photography, film, and support from his family and mentors, Benedikt opened a comic book shop in his native city of Cologne.
Benedikt as a boy, the first Taschen bookstore, their first publication, present day headquarters
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Taschen books. They continue to stick to their credo: don’t underestimate or bore your audience.
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