Ian Luna

Unlike prior biography and business-focused books on SONY, this is the first illustrated book devoted to the design innovations of the world-recognized brand. Never-before-published prototypes and design concepts make this book the ultimate insider's guide for design enthusiasts, providing readers with another elucidating example of the crucial role design plays in our everyday lives. This is the first book to document over sixty years of innovative designs by Sony, the first trailblazer in personal electronics and pioneer of the legendary and highly successful WALKMAN, Handycam, Cyber-shot, and VAIO brands, among other leading SONY products.

Making Modern

Sony Design

Florence Müller

Jean-Claude Kaufmann

Mariko Nishitani

Colombe Pringle

This volume is an unprecedented history of Louis Vuitton’s women’s bags, the most coveted line of accessories in women’s fashion. At the heart of Louis Vuitton are its City Bags, a range of women’s bags that dates back to the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring the trademark monograms of the house, the City Bag story began with the Steamer, a resort bag designed in 1901 to be packed inside a much larger steamer trunk. These bags have in a hundred years formally diversified into a dizzying array of handbags for every conceivable function demanded by the modern woman. Profoundly influential, City Bags are now known to millions by their descriptive names (Keepall, Bucket, Papillon, Alma, Locket, Noe, Speedy) and are still evolving into more fantastical forms. Lavishly illustrated with new and archival photography, historical graphics, landmark editorials, and ad campaigns, the volume traces the history of these specific bag families, and examines the earliest specimens and today’s most sought-after collectibles, including Vuitton’s collaborations with Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse, Richard Prince, Yayoi Kusama, and Rei Kawakubo and one-off projects by Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang, Andrée Putman, and of course, Marc Jacobs. Louis Vuitton: City Bags is an ambitious volume on the creation and cultivation of a cultural phenomenon.

Louis Vuitton City Bags: A Natural History

Ron Broadhurst

Suzanne Stephens

Robert Adams Ivy, Jr.

Documents the various architectural competitions, as well as informal proposals and thousands of independently submitted schemes, for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site. 10,000 first printing.

Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site

Imagining Ground Zero

Simon Castets

A large-format tribute to the influential brand's most visible collaborations features critical essays that examine and position the firm's patronage, in an exploration of the art, fashion, and architecture that was created in conjunction with such notables as Annie Liebovitz, Vanessa Beecroft, and Olafur Eliasson.

Art, Fashion and Architecture

Louis Vuitton

Ian Luna

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