ADVENT CALENDAR - DAY 21

Holidays means time to get your bake on! This'll be a great help when you're wondering how on earth your mom made such a wonderful Tarte Tatin and you don't even know where to begin. It's THE encyclopedia of baking everyone should have, master The Art of French Baking right now people!



Book by Phaidon

Tune of the day: Grafton Primary - I can cook

ADVENT CALENDAR - DAY 8

I've lost count of how many times I've featured Freunde von Freunden up here, but how could I not feature them in my Advent Calendar, especialy now that they have their own book out! HOORAY!

If you're not into the whole spend-your-afternoon-on-the-internet-going-through-pictures-of-peoples-awesome-homes-you-wish-you-lived-in thing, you might like this. It's their website, but in book-form. Would make an AWESOME gift for anyone who's into design/homes/art/etc.


Picture from Freunde von Freunden

Tune of the day: Hannulelauri - Zombie Tropicana, just because they're awesome.

LIBRARY FILLERS

If you want to end up with a big library when you're old and wrinkled, you'd better start collecting those books ASAP, right? Well, let me help you with that.

LN-CC has a great selection of art books, here are some of my favourites (if you see something you like, you'd better be quick because these sell out pretty fast...! In fact, the Hedi Slimane book is now sold out. Oops!)




Hedi Slimane Anthology of a Decade


Ryan McGinley - Black Jack


Left:Hussein Chalayan
Right: The Quieter Poster Boys - Brett Lloyd

And of course, your library will need some interesting trinkets too - in come the Our Exquisite Corpse skulls! These are pretty fantastic - yes, macabre too - but let's not think about that too much. These are made in collaboration with the Huichoi people of Mexico, be sure to check out the rest of the skulls and zoom in on the pictures (the details are amazing).


This one's actually the only one not sold out yet, so hurry up if you've got a library to fill!



All pictures via LN-CC

BOOKS

These are just a few books I wouldn't mind having. They're from artists I like, photographers,etc. I enjoy leafing through books like these so much, I just need a cup of tea to go with them.



From left to right, top to bottom:
Charley Harper, an illustrated life - Todd Oldham
Facehunter - Yvan Rodic
Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 - Richard Avedon
Andy Warhol "Giant Size" - Phaidon Editors
Another Fashion Book - Jefferson Hack
Stage - Hedi Slimane
Small World - Martin Parr
Marc Jacobs Advertising 1988 - 2009 - Juergen Teller
Los Angeles, portrait of a city - Kevin Starr

THEYSKENS + CLAESSENS

Olivier Theyskens designed his last collection for Nina Ricci back in march -remember?- but since then, he's been keeping himself busy. Another project of his is due to come out this month and this little preview looks promising!
Add this to your book-wishlist: "Olivier Theyskens: The Other Side of the Picture"
The book is a collaboration between Theyskens and backstage photographer Julien Claessens.

Leaf through the book on the publisher's website or scroll down and let these pictures do the talking:






All pictures by Julien Claessens

Other books on my wishlist include:
Another Fashion Book - Jefferson Hack
Avedon Fashion 1944-200 - Richard Avedon
Giant Andy Warhol - Phaidon
Small World - Martin Parr

A GRAND ITALIAN EPIC

Pictures from Valentino's book "VALENTINO - A Grand Italian Epic" by Taschen.



All pictures from taschen.com