By Pamela Newkirk (Hardcover)
One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019.
Award-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk examines the impact that money pledged by industry and foundation leaders to "diversify" has had on our society. She asks whether the attempts towards diversity are working or if they are merely creating a new industry of consultants and diversity czars. Newkirks effectively demonstrates the gap between the promises of those heralding their diversity efforts and the real achievements of the movement.

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Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 is the first major museum exhibition to investigate the early work of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Co-organized by Colby College Museum of Art and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibition will include approximately ninety works from the artist's fruitful and formative early career, many never before seen by the public. The show and accompanying catalog will include paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints which reveal an artist, even in the earliest stages of his career, with a keen interest in visual culture, culling--with a critical eye--from a wide range of sources.
These inspirations were the essential but little-known precursors to the artist's later sourcing of comic books and advertisements. Likewise, his exploration of abstraction, just before the artist's abrupt turn to Pop Art in 1961, straddles the line between unabashed lyricism and wry critique of second-generation Abstract Expressionism.
The catalog, with new scholarship by leading experts in the field, provides a new understanding of Lichtenstein's influential techniques of appropriation and offers the opportunity to more fully assess the artistic and cultural dynamism of postwar America.

The Details (Are Everything)

224 Pages
English language
Released in September 2020
8.62 x 11.77 x 1.09”
Hardcover
3.05 lb

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410199
Designer SKU: 9780847868681

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Hamptons Private invites readers to peek behind the manicured hedges in Amagansett, charter a yacht off the shore of the Springs, experience the surfer’s haven that is Ditch Plains and attend a polo match in Bridgehampton. Each page envisions the quintessential leisure of The Hamptons and showcases the unique quality of light that artist Willem de Kooning dubbed a “miracle.” One can almost hear the thwock of tennis balls at The Meadow Club, the whisperings of exclusive parties, the rhythms of seaside music at The Surf Lodge―even the first bite of a lobster roll at Lunch. The Hamptons, at once a retreat to nature and a hot spot for A-listers, exudes a boho-chic spirit reflected in its beautiful people and sublime surroundings.

The Details (Are Everything)

304 Pages
English language
Released in February 2021
W 9.84 x L 13.19 x D 1.57”
Hardcover
6.53 lb

Designer SKU: 9781614289876

Hamptons Private

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Bill Cunningham embraced the colors, carefree beauty and escapism of spring outings and summer parties as both a photographer and an astute fashion documentarian. His camera captured the showstopping hats and dresses worn by society ladies at the annual Central Park Conservancy luncheons, the gorgeous gowns sweeping the dance floors of tented galas in Newport and the Hamptons and the authentic vintage outfits sported by young attendees at summertime jazz and swing-dance festivals. For decades, Cunningham's two weekly columns for the Times remained at the top of every fashionista's go-to list, presenting not only a comprehensive chronicle of the looks of the day but also an insider's view of the glamorous parties and philanthropic events that are part of the social whirl.
This celebration of Cunningham's genius for capturing magical moments with extraordinary style provides a heartfelt insiders' tribute to one of photojournalism's greatest legends.

The Details (Are Everything)

144 Pages
English language
Released in March 2021
W 9.35 x L 12.37 x D 0.82”
Hardcover
2.6 lb

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410205
Designer SKU: 9780847870035

Bill Cunningham Was There

Cocktail and culinary enthusiasts Eric Prum and Josh Williams realized that while cocktail bars have sprouted up just about everywhere, good drinks still couldn’t be found in the one place where they always mixed them: at home with friends.
One part instructional recipe book and one part photo journey through their year of cocktail crafting, the book is a simple and inspirational expression of their seasonal, straightforward approach to drinks and entertaining: Mixing cocktails should be simple, social, and above all, fun. Each recipe is presented visually, in four color photos, as well as in written recipes, making
Premium soft cover book with 168 full color pages and 30+ straightforward, simple, and delicious cocktail recipes.

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Shake: A New Perspective On Cocktails

Celebrity trainer and goop expert Lauren Roxburgh’s program that uses pelvic floor strength to release stress, fortify the body, and treat the physical and mental origins of tension.
Chances are your body feels some form of stress every day, whether it’s inflammation, bloating, tension, discomfort, anxiety, or pain during sex. We’re constantly distracted by ailments we can’t quite seem to fix.
Body alignment expert Lauren Roxburgh believes that all of these problems can be solved by first unlocking the foundation of your mental and physical health: the pelvic floor. Located at the root of our pelvis, it determines how firm our core is, how we handle stress, and how much energy reaches the rest of our body. Without addressing the health of our pelvic floor, we are all missing out on a powerful key component of our overall physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Roxburgh presents an entirely new approach to building well-being–one based on a strong pelvic floor, open energy channels, and a clear mind.
The Power Source offers a deep understanding of how to cultivate this strength by following a holistic, multisensory program. Starting with the pelvic floor, Roxburgh focuses on the five power centers that can be harnessed throughout the body:
The pelvic floor
The deep core
The upper core
The heart and shoulders
The head, neck, and jaw
With targeted exercises to encourage healing movement, nourishing recipes–from a Confidence-Boosting Tonic to Root-Rejuvenating Bone Broth–and holistic therapies that include visualizations, aromatherapy, and more, Roxburgh gives a full toolbox to realign your body and your life.

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Meet the natural lovechild of the popular local-foods movement and craft cocktail scene. It’s here to show you just how easy it is to make delicious, one-of-a-kind mixed drinks with common flowers, berries, roots, and leaves that you can find along roadsides or in your backyard. Foraging expert Ellen Zachos gets the party started with recipes for more than 50 garnishes, syrups, infusions, juices, and bitters, including Quick Pickled Daylily Buds, Rose Hip Syrup, and Chanterelle-infused Rum. You’ll then incorporate your handcrafted components into 45 surprising and delightful cocktails, such as Stinger in the Rye, Don’t Sass Me, and Tree-tini.

The Wildcrafted Cocktail

By Dani McClain (Hardcover)
Author Dani McClain writes about learning how to raise her daughter as a black woman in an unjust society. She interviews mother who work to effect social, political, and cultural change as they grapple with similar questions in the face of adversity. How do you raise a child with a sense of joy when black women disproportionately loose die in childbirth or loose their children to dehumanized violence? This is an essential exploration of those questions.

We Live For The We: The Political Power Of Black Motherhood

Ordinary Habit were immediately captivated by the synthesis of color and dialogue in Shawna X’s eerie depiction of a sunset swim. Beneath the surface of this boldly graphic work lies an undercurrent of dark humor — are we piecing together a pool float or a predator? Ordinary Habit will let you decide.
500 pieces each
Completed Size: 16” x 20”
Box Size: 9 ½” x 7 ¾”
Pieces finished with a soft-touch, glare-free coating
Made with recycled materials

Ordinary Habit Nightmare In Paradise By Shawna

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Dream Rooms for Children takes children's spaces with creative seriousness. Whether for a newborn, toddler, first grader, or teenager, the rooms shown here enrich the experience of childhood and, much like a child's imagination, offer endless possibilities. Full of design ideas, these interiors show us how we can make the most of all our current time at home by creating spaces that are functional and multipurpose while remaining stylish and livable.
Showcasing work by top-notch designers, including Kelly Wearstler, Charlotte Moss, Alessandra Branca, and Nate Berkus, among many others, these inspiring rooms offer a diversity of styles, from modern to formal to whimsical. Whether for a single child or for several children, whether it's a high-energy space for hanging out with friends or a soothing dreamy escape from the world, each room creates a vision of childhood at its best. In addition to nurseries and bedrooms, the book explores playrooms and studies, illustrating clever solutions to typical design problems and showing how to integrate sleep, study, and play into one space.
With stunning photography and imaginative rooms for every taste and budget, Dream Rooms for Children is full of practical tips and ideas, as well as quotes by the designers themselves, empowering you to create stylish, functional and fun children's rooms of your own.

The Details (Are Everything)

240 Pages
English language
Released in March 2021
9.32 x 9.82 x 1.11”
Hardcover
3.1 lb

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410168
Designer SKU: 9780847867080

Dream Rooms For Children

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon is the author of Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden (1998), Good Mourning California (1992), WHY? WHY NOT? (2013), Utopia Myopia (2013), Read Any Good Boots Lately? (2018) and Making the Invisble Visible (2018). A native of California, she is an artist, landscape architect, designer, and writer. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Paris, Zurich, Milan, and Venice and is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA.
Best known for her supergraphics, most noticeably at The Sea Ranch, CA, where she brought to the U.S. supergraphics and Helvetica typeface: an iconic a mix of her Swiss-trained graphic design layered with her California sensibility.
Barbara has taught at Harvard, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Publishers: Fun Fog Press
Material: Paperback
Size: 8 1/2 x 11 in

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Read Any Good Boots Lately?

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Sancerre and Cheetos go together like milk and cookies. The science behind this unholy alliance is as elemental as acid, fat, salt and minerals. Wine pro Vanessa Price explains how to create your own pairings while proving you don’t necessarily need fancy foods to unlock the joys of wine.
Building upon the outsize success of her weekly column in Grub Street , Price offers delightfully bold wine and food pairings alongside hilarious tales from her own unlikely journey as a Kentucky girl making it in the Big Apple and in the wine business.
Using language everyone can understand, she reveals why each dynamic duo is a match made in heaven, serving up memorable takeaways that will help you navigate any wine list or local bottle shop. Charmingly illustrated and bubbling with personality, Big Macs & Burgundy will open your mind to the entirely fun and entirely accessible wine pairings out there waiting to be discovered—and make you do a few spit-takes along the way.

The Details (Are Everything)

240 Pages
English language
Released in October 2020
W 7 x L 9 x D 0.63”
Paperback
1.35 lb

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 990120015
Designer SKU: 9781419744914

Big Macs And Burgundy

By Aaron Reynolds, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
The tale of a young boy riding the bus with his mother in Montgomery, Alabama who witnesses a pivotal historical moment.

Back Of The Bus

Our Take On It
Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print.
Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning.
Artists include John James Audubon, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, Nicolas Huet, and Georges Cuvier.

The Details (Are Everything)

44 Pages
English language
Released in March 2020
9.02 x 12.03 x 0.34”
Paperback
1.1 lb

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410166
Designer SKU: 9782080204424

Frameables: Animal Kingdom

A beloved classic reissued for contemporary readers. Experience a year in the life of Thoreau at Walden Pond in this classic work. Visit the bean-field, the village, and the ponds; learn about our brute neighbors, the higher laws of nature and humankind, and the benefits of reading and solitude. Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. His writings on natural history and philosophy have become two sources of modern-day environmentalism. Hardcover, 355 pages. Published by Gibbs Smith Publishers

Henry David Thoreau - Walden: Life In The Woods

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Guendalina Litta is a veritable dream maker and a sought-after bespoke event planner. From the simplest decor to an extravaganza spread over a vast locale, her unique gatherings are conceived for delight. Follow a candlelit path into an enchanted forest for an evening under the stars, take cues from a masterpiece painting for an immersive experience, dine at a glass table embedded with riotous flowers in an elegant greenhouse or be transported to an exotic land while never leaving your own property. Guendalina never ceases to reinvent her signature art of entertaining, cultivating a welcoming, convivial atmosphere that brings people together as she masterfully orchestrates the magical celebration.
Guendalina's creativity and style, combined with logistical prowess, are unparalleled. She and her exceptional team of artisans--caterers, florists, interior designers, architects, calligraphers, costumers, artists, and performers--attend to every detail in order to create ephemeral experiences that will linger forever in the memory of each guest.
This new book, featuring previously unpublished photography of her most recent events, serves as an artistic mood board to inspire event planners and creatives of every stripe. The pairings of behind-the-scene and front-of-house photographs create associations designed to spark creativity, and the clothbound cover reproduces a custom-designed, hand-painted fabric from one of the celebrations. Guendalina--who has crafted experiences to mark life's treasured moments for thirty years--shares her inimitable style and expertise with readers.

The Details (Are Everything)

240 Pages
English language
Released in November 2020
9.76 x 12.87 x 1.1”
Hardcover
4.01 lb

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410188
Designer SKU: 9782080206954

Dream Makers

Our Take On It
With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice and creative garden-design inspiration. Whether you are looking to pick a statement plant for your living room, create a terrarium centerpiece or arrange an artful display of air plants, this book will provide the tools you need. You'll be tempted to thumb through it again and again--for both resource and relaxation.
This book includes plant basics from beginner-friendly plant care info as well as acting as a plant guide with profiles of popular indoor plants. There are fun plant projects delivering a major wow factor (including trending designs like terrariums, air plants, marimo and other underwater gardens, kokedama, mounted staghorn ferns and edible herbs). There's even discussion on ways to use plants in interior design for every style from Desert Boho to Midcentury Modern

The Details (Are Everything)

208 Pages
English language
Released in January 2019
W 7.22 x L 10.81 x D 0.75”
Hardcover
1.8 lb

Designer SKU: 9781632171771

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410155

The Inspired Houseplant

To tell this story, Kevin Alexander journeys through the travails and triumphs of a number of key chefs, bartenders, and activists, as well as restaurants and neighborhoods whose fortunes were made during this veritable gold rush including Gabriel Rucker, an originator of the 2006 Portland restaurant scene; Tom Colicchio of Gramercy Tavern and Top Chef fame; as well as hugely influential figures, such as André Prince Jeffries of Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville; and Carolina barbecue pitmaster Rodney Scott.
Kevin Alexander writes with rare energy, telling a distinctly American story, at once timeless and cutting edge, about unbridled creativity and ravenous ambition. To “burn the ice” means to melt down whatever remains in a kitchen’s ice machine at the end of the night. Or, at the bar, to melt the ice if someone has broken a glass in the well. It is both an end and a beginning. It is the firsthand story of a revolution in how Americans eat and drink.

Burn The Ice

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A necessary addition to the libraries of industry masters, Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle: The First Twenty Years, is an exploration of the inspirations and vision of one of the great protagonists of contemporary perfume.

2020 marks a historic date for the house: twenty years of audacity and creativity. Twenty years of shifting paradigms in the exacting world of perfumery. In Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle: The First Twenty Years, Malle offers readers an intimate glimpse into his brand's saga and shares the stories behind four of his most successful scents in graphic-novel form. Journalist Marion Vignal delves into Malle's lifelong devotion to perfume, personal history, and myriad inspirations to uncover the evolution of his precise olfactory aesthetics, while imagery of perfume bottles, sketches, advertising campaigns and photos of boutiques explores his comprehensive vision. With art direction by Patrick Li, the book features an eclectic palette of imagery from the personal archives of the founder, as well as illustrations, unique sketches and authentic stories about Malle's collaboration with Perfumers.

Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle: The First Twenty Years is an invitation to a sensorial journey that will delight perfume lovers everywhere. This volume invites faithful connoisseurs of haute perfumery and lovers of fine craftsmanship alike to join in celebrating an authentic, audacious, exacting and rich brand.

The Details (Are Everything)

240 Pages
English language
Released in October 2020
W 10.72 x L 12.25 x 1.37”
Hardcover
4.35 lb

Designer SKU: 9780847869336
A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410127

Éditions De Parfums Frédéric Malle

Kinfolk magazine—launched to great acclaim and instant buzz in 2011—is a quarterly journal about understated, unfussy entertaining. The journal has captured the imagination of readers nationwide, with content and an aesthetic that reflect a desire to go back to simpler times; to take a break from our busy lives; to build a community around a shared sensibility; and to foster the endless and energizing magic that results from sharing a meal with good friends.
Now there’s The Kinfolk Table , a cookbook from the creators of the magazine, with profiles of 45 tastemakers who are cooking and entertaining in a way that is beautiful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive. Each of these home cooks—artisans, bloggers, chefs, writers, bakers, crafters—has provided one to three of the recipes they most love to share with others, whether they be simple breakfasts for two, one-pot dinners for six, or a perfectly composed sandwich for a solo picnic.
368 Pages

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A perfect BACK-TO-SCHOOL tool for students and teachers who need an encouraging boost to start the year!
NBA champion and superstar LeBron James pens a slam-dunk picture book inspired by his foundation’s I PROMISE program that motivates children everywhere to always #StriveForGreatness.
Just a kid from Akron, Ohio, who is dedicated to uplifting youth everywhere, LeBron James knows the key to a better future is to excel in school, do your best, and keep your family close.
I Promise is a lively and inspiring picture book that reminds us that tomorrow’s success starts with the promises we make to ourselves and our community today.
Featuring James’s upbeat, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations perfectly crafted for a diverse audience by New York Times bestselling artist Nina Mata, this book has the power to inspire all children and families to be their best.
Perfect for shared reading in and out of the classroom, I Promise is also a great gift for graduation, birthdays, and other occasions.

I Promise

By Kitson Jaznyka, Barbara Kramer (Paperback)
Age: 5-8 years
Learn about the lives of four inspiring and black figures in American history: George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

National Geographic Readers: African American History Makers

Taproot is an independent, bimonthly, ad-free print magazine produced in Portland, ME.
Taproot celebrates farm, food, family and craft through writing, photography and the arts, both fine and domestic. Each issue is packed with inspiration, recipes, craft instructions (from making a quilt to knitting a hat and more!), herbal remedies, and all kinds of  beautiful images.
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Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great.

His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott's favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look.

From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog.

The Details (Are Everything)

512 Pages
English language
Released in August 2009
W 5.2 x L 7.2 x 1.7”
1.85 lb

Designer SKU: 9780847864195
A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410118

The Sartorialist

Learn how to care for your houseplant giants, from the glorious Fiddle Leaf Fig and impressive Banana Plant to the ever-popular Monstera – this book will cover 45 favorites and include everything you need to know about creating your own indoor jungle.   Little Book, Big Plants will not only instruct you on how to best care for your gentle giants, but will also show you how to encourage growth and make your own natural fertilizer as you increase the size of your collection.  Colorful, fun and gifty, this is the perfect companion for anyone looking to grow their plant family and take their foliage to the next level.
Hardcover, 144 pages

Little Book Big Plants

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Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like glass and concrete--proof that less is more. This volume features ten houses and examines his approach to these designs. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Ando's prodigious genius through lavish and striking photographs. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows. He uses simple methods to solve complicated and small spaces and turns them into spaces with breathtaking landscapes.
With precise and beautiful photographs accompanied by Tadao Ando's sketches, drawings, and plans, this volume presents several unseen and little published works, from the Bosco Studio and House facing the Pacific Ocean in Oaxaca, Mexico (2014)to a penthouse in Manhattan for a Japanese collector, completed in 2019.

The Details (Are Everything)

288 Pages
English language
Released in April 2021
11.34 x 11.37 x 1.24”
Hardcover
5.07 lb

Designer SKU: 9780847865307

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410200

Tadao Ando: Living With Light

Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror.Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother‚Äôs sudden reappearance.In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them. Spanning decades and continents, their saga brings them into contact with a down-and-out online journalist, shadowy security professionals, and jockeying technology experts, each of whom has a different understanding of whether information really protects us, and how we might build a world worth trusting in our paranoid age.

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With over sixty recipes included from breakfast through to dessert--with everything from avo nuggets to avo ice pops to adding avocado to classic dishes--the culinary creations in this book prove that avocados are not only tasty and nutritious but incredibly versatile too.

The Avocado Book is filled with pages of inspiration on how to make the most of this number one superfood.

The Details (Are Everything)

144 Pages
English language
Released in September 2020
W 6.21 x L 9.28 x 0.78”
Hardcover

Designer SKU: 9781911663133
A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410138

The Avocado Book

The “too-cool-for-school” third picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed and The Good Egg, Jory John and Pete Oswald
Everyone knows the cool beans. They’re sooooo cool.
And then there’s the uncool has-bean . . .
Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd until one day the cool beans show him how it’s done.
With equal measures of humor, wit, and charm, the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Jory John and Pete Oswald craft another incredible picture book, reminding us that it’s cooler to be kind.

Cool Bean

Insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else) from someone who's been there (and kind of still is).
Handwritten and heartfelt, this pocket-sized book by designer Adam J. Kurtz offers wisdom and empathy from one working artist to others, with perforated pages to share or display. Less "how to" and more "why even," this book is an encouraging reminder of our inner strength and intrinsic power to create.
Perforated tear-and-share pages make it easy to display themost crucial reminders or to pass a bit of advice on to someone who needs it.
Recommended for creatives, makers, artists, and writers of all kinds, whether you're a professional, hobbyist, still figuring it out, or somewhere in between.
Paperback, 4.25 x 6.35 in., 144 pages.

Things Are What You Make Of Them

Our Take On It
In Japan, cooking often bears aesthetic value and the making of sushi is exalted as one of the finest culinary crafts. In line with this ideal of food as art, the Japanese often employ the word shokunin, loosely defined as “artisan”, to refer to highly skilled sushi masters. Connoting excellence and devotion to one’s craft, this title is reserved for those who approach their work with an artistic eye and seemingly spiritual sense of purpose, or ikigai.
In this stunning monograph, James Beard Award-winning photographer and author Andrea Fazzari profiles twenty of the most celebrated sushi masters on the Japanese food scene. Through a combination of striking photography and intimate essays, each chapter introduces readers to a new master and restaurant, capturing the aesthetics, philosophy and level of dedication that illustrates their status as the world’s finest culinary shokunin.

The Details (Are Everything)

280 Pages
Over 200 Illustrations
English language
Released in October 2020
W 9.8 x L 13 x 1.4”
Hardcover
6 lb

Designer SKU: 9781614289395

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 350450119

Sushi Shokunin: Japan's Culinary Masters

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This is the classic best-selling guide to alternative country life, Living on the Earth. Entirely handwritten in the author's script and illustrated with her line drawings, it is a practical home reference volume. And the information is relentless-organic gardening, outdoor cooking, crafts, herbology, midwifery, backpacking, survival, first aid, making and playing musical instruments, sewing, pattern drafting, building a kiln, a kayak, an ice chest, making candles, soap, ink, beaded curtains, ice cream, tamales, and, at the end, how to cremate. A list of useful-and magical-books, and addresses for hard to find tools and materials completes the appendices, along with a star map and an old English poem to the moon.
Originally published in 1970, Living on the Earth is about permaculture, sustainability, simplicity and environmentalism--words that came into our vocabulary ten to twenty years later. Most of the projects involve recycling--stoves and flotation devices from 55 gallon drums, individual greenhouses from glass jugs, patchwork skirts from neckties. It's about withdrawing from consumerism and finding true happiness through creativity, respectful interactions with nature, appreciation of other people, and consciousness of the Divine.
It is a spiritual book that uplifts and instructs largely through the illustrations of people living outdoors serenely and vigorously. The message of the front cover illustration--ecstatic union with the natural world--resonates with people because it is our birthright. Living on the Earth was and is a freedom call to people in all parts of society---yes, it IS possible to find a simpler and more satisfying life outside of the industrial-military complex. Yes, it is possible to live in a world of innocent, smiling nudes, surrounded by things you grew, found or made yourself.
Living on the Earth is also a historical document, an insider's view of the communes of the late 60's, today widely used in university history courses. Along with Ram Dass's Be Here Now and The Whole Earth Catalog, it bespoke the joyous upwelling of global stewardship, trusting comradery, and direct communion with the Universal Spirit that marked the era's sudden and enormous counterculture.
Living on the Earth is a milestone in twentieth century art. (Publishers Weekly took note immediately with a handwritten two-page review surrounded by Alicia's drawings.) Within months after Living on the Earth was first published, dozens of new books and commercial art (packaging, advertising, giftware designs and greeting cards) based on its design and illustrations began to appear. Its influence is still clearly evident four decades later.
Living on the Earth was written, illustrated and designed by a teenager. As such, it speaks to young people as one of their own, daring them to create books, live adventurously, learn the sources of things they take for granted, follow their dreams. Alternative schools (where drawings of smiling nudes are not forbidden) happily use the book as a craft project book for students.
In 2012, Living on the Earth was chosen by a panel of food and cookbook experts chosen by the Fales Library at New York University (which holds the largest collection of books about food in the United States) as one of the 101 most influential American cookbooks of the 20th century.

Living On Earth

By Ibram X. Kendi
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Antiracism means more than simply not being racist, it is a transformative concept that reorients the conversation about racism and attempt to transform the way we think about our society. Kendi explores this concept and writes about ways we all can transform to become antiracists in order to build a more just society.

How To Be Antiracist

Our Take On It
Penang is an explorer’s dream and a food-lover’s paradise. It’s the nasi lemak or kaya toast eaten for breakfast, served with a hot cup of kopi ‘O’ (black coffee), at one of the city’s bustling food courts. It’s the rejuvenative laksa after a morning’s sight-seeing, followed by a cooling cendol in the afternoon heat. It’s the char kuey teow prepared in a flash at one of the many late-night hawker stalls, washed down with local beer.
Like the island itself, Penang Local celebrates the traditional cuisine that is cherished by locals and fervently adored by visitors, while embracing the multicultural influences that continue to shape this vibrant and historic food scene. Penang Local is packed with delicious yet approachable recipes so you can recreate the magic of Penang at home.

The Details (Are Everything)

224 Pages
English language
Released in May 2021
W 7.81  x L 9.89 x D 0.96  inches
Hardcover
1.92 lb

Designer SKU: 9781922417008

A.K. Rikk's SKU: 993410191

Penang Local

Our Take On It
This richly illustrated volume traces the story of one of the world’s most recognizable wristwatches through archive images and original photography, together with an evocative text by noted author, historian, journalist and horological specialist Nicholas Foulkes.
Born in 1931, at the height of the Art Deco period, the Reverso was created in response to the challenge of designing a wristwatch that could withstand the rigours of polo matches. It captured the essence of the time – a period when the spirit of modernity changed everything, from social mores to architecture, music, sport and every field of design. Epitomizing this spirit with its sleek form and unique reversible case, the Reverso has remained an eternal expression of modernity for 90 years, continually reinventing itself while never compromising its identity. Its blank metal flip side, which began as a purely functional solution, became a canvas for creative expression, decorated with enamel, engravings or gemstones.
As well as tracing the history of the watch and its evolution over the past nine decades – with more than 50 calibres and several hundred dials – the book explores the social milieu and cultural changes that provided the backdrop to the creation of the Reverso and, later, its continued reinvention.

The Details (Are Everything)

200 Pages
English language
Released in January 2021
W 11 x L 14 x D 1.5”
Silk hardcover in a luxury slipcase
6.5 lb

Designer SKU: 9781614289555
A.K. Rikk's SKU: 990450141