BOOKS

A comprehensive book that features about 150 key artworks from the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation. It includes essays by art historian and museum director Jacqueline Grandjean, journalist Emma Crichton-Miller, as well as Axel and May Vervoordt in their own words.

The book explores the groundbreaking series of Vervoordt-curated exhibitions at Venice’s Palazzo Fortuny from 2007-2017, with a careful visual selection by photographer Jean-Pierre Gabriel, combining all exhibitions together for the first time in a single volume.

Axel and May Vervoordt are guided by a firm belief in art’s intrinsic power to change lives and add perspectives from the past, present and future. This approach is embodied through A Search for the Universal, a 356-page volume conceived by the Foundation and driven by the family's dedication to promoting art as a catalyst for personal and collective transformation.

The book’s 167-page plate section highlights the artworks with photography by Laziz Hamani and Jan Liegeois. A complete list with an in-depth art historical entry of each work is included.

More than just a catalogue, this book is above all a story about the qualities the Vervoordts seek in art and how living with art has enriched their lives.

Language: English.

The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered photographer. Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance and detail. This indispensable book features one of the largest selections of Penn’s photographs ever compiled, including famous and beloved images as well as works that have never been published.

Celebrating the centennial of Penn’s birth, this lavish volume spans the entirety of his groundbreaking career. An enlightening introduction situates his work in the context of the various artistic, social and political environments that affected the content of his photographs. Lively essays acquaint readers with Penn’s primary subjects and campaigns, including early documentary scenes and imagery; portraits; fashion; female nudes; peoples of Peru, Dahomey (Benin), New Guinea and Morocco; still lifes and much more. Irving Penn: Centennial is a must have for any fan of this artist’s work or the history of 20th-century photography.

Language: English.

Apollo is the first cookbook dedicated to Frederik Bille Brahe’s restaurant-museum in Copenhagen. It features 104 recipes, developed alongside chef Yuta Kurahashi, blending Danish cuisine with Japanese, French and Italian influences. More than a recipe collection, the book reflects a world where food, art and design coexist naturally.

Frederik Bille Brahe, a Copenhagen-based chef, is the founder of Atelier September and Apollo. His work combines cooking, aesthetics and lifestyle, a philosophy also captured in his previous cookbooks.
Language: English.